Sentence examples for haste looked from inspiring English sources

Chuka Umunna and Liz Kendall dashing for the Sunday TV sofas with indecent haste looked as if they'd been rehearsing a bit too eagerly for a Labour fail, with Tristram Hunt another too quick to slam what went before as failing to appeal to the "John Lewis community".

Olli Rehn, Brussels's economy commissioner, turned to English mountaineer Edward Whymper – the first man to climb the Matterhorn – for an adage to sum up the challenge still facing the eurozone: "Do nothing in haste; look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end".

Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end".

Or perhaps the leaders, in their haste to look united, did not spend quite enough time reading the words issued in their name.

In her haste, she said, she looked up the dates for two big stories that Cronkite covered — the assassination of Martin Luther King and the moment Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon — and copied them incorrectly.

But there could be a bit of value about a more experienced sort in Storm Moon (2.30) who was ridden with too much haste last time and had previously looked an ideal type.

As for Hunter, in his haste to boil the body he never looked inside Byrne's skull, where the indentation of a pituitary tumour is plain to see.

Some of these letters looked as if they were written in haste.

I looked down, and saw that, in my haste to "run to safety", I had neglected to grab a towel -or anything else--to hide behind as I stood facing the hall.

It looked more like a gigantic, windowless log cabin crudely slathered with pitch, as if built in haste by a man who thought the flood might come any day.

To some that still looks like indecent haste.