Sentence examples for manner closer from inspiring English sources

The German actress Barbara Sukowa crooned, cooed and otherwise declaimed in a manner closer to Lotte Lenya's world-weary affectation than to Schoenberg's arch Sprechstimme.

Even the late verse can seem shallow and narcissistic, beauty seized in his own beautiful eye — he treats women ("O Beauty, you are the light of the world!") in a manner closer to lechery than to old-style courtesy.

A scathing parliamentary inquiry found last month that Ashley had been running Sports Direct in a manner "closer to that of a Victorian workhouse than that of a modern, reputable high street retailer", building his success on a business model that treated workers "without dignity or respect".

To this end, frequencies that exceeded 0.05 Hz were removed using a low pass filter and clear technical artefacts (e.g., due to an optode losing contact to the scalp during measurement) were corrected by means of interpolation by replacing the values of the corresponding channels with the values of the circumjacent channels in a Gaussian manner (closer channels were taken more into account).

(Falling prices will, in an analogous manner, close the gaps in the markets in which the initial disturbance caused excess supplies to develop).

The hustle, as written by Eric Roth, working with Hanson, has the fluent logic of seduction: the pawnbroker plays along because she admires Huck's virtuosity, and Bana's sincere manner closes the deal.

I think that "true" is being used in a manner close to its root meaning of "being true to", namely an act of fidelity that is kept alive in the German treu, loyal or faithful.

The British actor zoomed to fame last year with restrained star power in Mike Hodges's canny noir film "Croupier" -- in a manner close in tone to several of BMW's poshest young models also featured in the "Hire" series.

One former student recalled "those tales in which a pencil, an inconspicuous water jug, or a tile stove had their own histories and lived in a manner close to us and so much like human beings".

Although painted in a static, formal, archaic manner close in style to Byzantine prototypes, these frescoes show a particularly sombre and intense emotionalism that goes beyond even the typical Russian emphasis on emotional expression.

c VIP immunoreactivity was disclosed in a granular manner close to the neuronal nuclei, resembling endoplasmatic reticulum staining (arrows).