Sentence examples for if engaging from inspiring English sources

I wager he would have fared far worse if engaging in suspicious behavior in any Muslim country.

I just need to go through a series of motoric motions, as if engaging in Czerny exercises for the piano or a sequence of scales and arpeggios cascading up and down the keyboard.

The jury prize was given to "Polisse," from the actress-turned-director Maïwenn, who also appears in this rather frenetic if engaging drama about cops working in a child protection unit.

Unlike Capote, Lee did not revel in publicity, indeed she shied from it and, if she was working on anything, she did not announce it, while his purported Proustian epic, Answered Prayers, turned out to be slim, if engaging pickings.

More often, they are pouring beer down their throats as if engaging in a frat boy consumption contest — although only one of this hill town's denizens gets near a college campus.

The prospect is dismal both to the dying king and to the members of his court, for Prince Hal has distinguished himself to this point mainly by his penchant for keeping company with the disreputable if engaging Falstaff.

Right foot and left foot traded rhythms as if engaged in a spirited conversation.

A subject stands or sits opposite the scientist, as if engaged in an interview.

If engaged and focused, he could still be a key to the Wizards' rebirth, even after causing their demise.

They creep stiffly across his head and face as if engaged in a minute examination for signs of life.

His persona and prose have come to coincide, as if engaged in a century-long solar eclipse.