Sentence examples for harmless manner from inspiring English sources
Players who flirt with it are doing so to save their own skin, to escape a snooker in the most harmless manner possible.
The "Scottish" Symphony (No. 3 in the unchronological standard sequence), he said, is often played in a "harmless" manner, which "is a great mistake, as it's a very serious and dramatic piece".
A story is told that the 16th-century pope Adrian VI was highly offended at satirical verses written against him and affixed to Pasquino's statue (a famous repository for lampoons in Rome), but he became a willing target once he realized that his enemies vented otherwise dangerous hostility in this relatively harmless manner.
At first this showed itself in small and relatively harmless ways: in his regal manner, or the insistence on a coal fire in his office in the new Mirror building in Holborn Circus, never mind that it was in the middle of a smoke-free zone.
When Randy goes home after the operation, and peels off his bandage, the camera zooms in to inspect the scar on his chest, whereas what really pinches our attention is his harmless habits: the mild, uncomplaining manner in which he pops in a hearing aid or adjusts his reading spectacles.
It's all pretty harmless, even if Hammond's larky manner and pretended "oo-er" moments get a bit wearing after a while.
Miss Prothero, with her refined manners and inconsequential chat, seems harmless enough, but dig down and she's as vengeful and venomous as Lucrezia Borgia.
Most patients who get BRCA testing have results that can be interpreted in a relatively straightforward manner – either no variations from 'wild type', harmless sequence variations or a clearly deleterious mutation.
In speech and manner he lacks the charm of the average, harmless, genial, grinning southern darky so beloved by the American people.
No effect or pejorative The commonest use of "placebo" was in a derogatory manner to denote therapy that was ineffective or harmless or valuable only for imaginary therapies.
The new aesthetic that transformed the American automobile in a highly conspicuous manner during this decade indirectly added to the Volkswagen's harmless appearance.
