Sentence examples for hardly serves from inspiring English sources

This has already happened many times, and it hardly serves the interests of the press once it is revealed.

Such a feast of nostalgia, wrapped in celebrity hype, hardly serves to differentiate City Opera from the Met.

Victory against relatively limited Bulgarian opponents hardly serves notice of startlingly improved times ahead but anything less was inconceivable.

China now boasts the world's second-largest economy, but it hardly serves as a global economic role model.

In any case, the memorial, as imposing and as memorable as it may be in itself, hardly serves the function for which it was intended.

This sculpture, while technically good, is somewhat pedestrian and hardly serves as a prelude to the work of Claus Sluter, who worked for Charles V's brother Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy.

But that hardly served as a predictor that he would oust Tsonga.

But the complaints about Diallo hardly serve as an exoneration of D.S.K.

But that hardly served to make the performance itself more meaningful than a simple — and pale — reflection of reality.

Dale's code brought order to the Virginia experiment, but it hardly served to attract new settlers.

Ms. Wertheimer observed mildly that Murphy Brown could hardly serve as a role model for inner-city women.