Sentence examples for minor interest from inspiring English sources

Some of this is enjoyable but of minor interest".

One, marked as of minor interest, was a small hill, Gobëkli Tepe, the "belly-shaped mound".

Hearing three of his orchestral works now, however, suggests it has a residual, if minor interest.

Their deep obeisance to Richard Prince makes them of minor interest.

The younger Mr. Hickey says that he and his father saw No. 471 as a building of minor interest.

And they had only a minor interest in being "painters of modern life," to use Baudelaire's phrase.

One of his minor interests was the politics of divided societies, notably South Africa and Northern Ireland.

These were two bills recently passed by the Duma: The former bans any speech that "may arouse in minors interest in nontraditional sexual relations" or "form the erroneous impression of social equality" of same-sex relationships; the latter bans adoptions by foreigners who are in same-sex marriages and single people from countries where such marriages are legal.

If, on the other hand, you feel that the departure of Mr. Dobbs was actually an event of relatively minor historical interest, you will probably find that Mr. Kurtz fills his book with a kind of movie-music portent -- the use of that expression "shell-shocked" is one of many examples -- that seem an attempt to cover over the essentially repetitive, even monotonous quality to his story.

So far his plans met with minor success (interest rates had fallen to 4.5%), and this encouraged both him and the French government.

I have argued (Jaworska unpublished) that when the interests of the earlier person are relatively minor, substantial interests of the current nonperson ought to trump.