Sentence examples for if purposely from inspiring English sources

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It feels like Joss Whedon has been writing the script for this NBA season, killing or otherwise writing-off popular favorites as if purposely trying to cause fans as much emotional pain as possible.

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If I were a psychologist, I might find it interesting to study if people purposely kill their chances of getting invited to pitch because of some kind of natural fear of becoming successful.

"Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective" is the Museum of Modern Art's aptly titled retrospective of a German artist whose work is nothing if not purposely troublesome.

The spoken lines are disembodied, delivered in voice-over (in Spanish; the show has English supertitles) so their identification with the speaker is difficult if not purposely obscured.

Canada's coach, John Herdman, noted that it wasn't as if McLeod "purposely tried to slow the game down, where you see goalkeepers really cheating — she wasn't doing that".

This is a play with a lot of red herrings (that cut hand, for example) and a strange, hiccuping pace that accurately (even if not purposely) reflects how time passes during uncertainty.

To continue on the theme of questions and comments related to voice-over announcers, I have long wondered if companies purposely use slightly less well-known talent as narrators in commercials or ask their more famous talent to "disguise" their voices, or make them ever so slightly less recognizable.

The bill, which is solely supported by Republicans, states that a woman could be charged with a misdemeanour if she "purposely exposes the areola or nipple of her breast or breasts in a public place and in the presence of another person with reckless disregard for whether a reasonable person would be offended or alarmed by such act".

If I purposely never saw Titanic, then I'm sure as heck not going to waste my time watching Avatar.

But they won't do that if he purposely throws the pen to the ground.

BusinessWeek gave the book four out of five stars and appreciated its "Aha!" moments, but wondered if Gladwell purposely omits evidence that contradict his thesis.

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