Sentence examples for means of underlining from inspiring English sources

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But the tags on presents under the tree more often than not say "From Santa" in that cosy postmodern ironic way that everyone understands is just a humorous means of underlining non-belief.

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Ms. Monte calls her visual concept for the drama "a streamlined evocation of the Renaissance meant to underline the eternalness of the story".

That year's telecast notoriously opened with Spears sleepwalking her way through her rubbery Blackout track Gimme More, but the rest of it was meant to underline the idea of Vegas as a destination for spit-shined hedonism; instead of performing on stage, Foo Fighters, Fall Out Boy, Justin Timberlake and Kanye West were installed in suites where guests could, and did, drop in and cameo.

Like the next three films in the set "No Blood Relation" is punctuated by a frequent, self-conscious use of a curious, rapid dolly-in effect meant to underline the emotion of a close-up, a bit of unnecessary stylistic goosing that suggests some of the more zoom-happy directors of today.

As AT&T's board prepares for its annual retreat, where many of the company's most important decisions have taken shape in recent years, the participants will most likely be discussing options meant to underline the value of the company's relatively strong operations, like its cable unit, while quarantining the performance of the relative laggards, like consumer long-distance.

And so the company's executives and investment bankers have been hard at work considering various restructuring options meant to underline the value of the relatively strong operations, like the cable unit, while quarantining the performance of the relative laggards, like consumer long-distance.

In a display meant to underline the desire of event founder Gordon McCall to celebrate all two-wheeled things, there were even competitive categories for choppers and "Extraordinary Bicycles".

We're not the first to point out that the trailer for Adam Sandler's newest comedy "Jack and Jill" (guys, he plays Jack and Jill!) seems like it was plucked from the cutting room floor of "Funny People" as one of the fake trailers meant to underline how Sandler's career has fallen entirely into unfunny self-parody.

(The fact it adds up to 161percentt is meant to underline the whimsical nature of the pitch).

Maybe the artlessness of the acting is meant to underline that the principal players in the tragedy are far from being grown-up.

(The term 'kinetic' is meant to underline the vital importance of motion here, and to distinguish the approach from older static molecular gas models).

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