Sentence examples for perceptible effort from inspiring English sources

I realised that the middle classes cook (and eat) like they decorate: expertly, heavy on borrowed authenticity, low on perceptible effort and frills.

He was among the first players to establish himself overseas, where his nuance and artistry in midfield are appreciated, but at home, his subtlety has sometimes been lost on a culture that more easily values perceptible effort.

In the two and a half years since the popular protests that overthrew the Mubarak regime, the Administration has followed a pattern: express concern about tumultuous events, then accept their outcome as a fait accompli and make the best of the new status quo, without a perceptible effort to use whatever influence the U.S. still has over the main actors in Egypt's political drama.

The empathic mode is not Christie's most natural, and to attain it requires perceptible efforts.

Perceptible efforts have been made to address the challenges faced by academics in less-developed regions by European and American multinational publishing firms that dominate global academic publishing.

Administration officials say that the breadth of participation in Educate to Innovate is wider than in previous efforts, which have failed to produce a perceptible rise in test scores or in most students' perceptions of math and science.

By contrast, Mr. Bradley's campaign has been barely perceptible.

Coach Steve Alford wants his players to talk more on defense as part of their efforts to improve the team's one perceptible weakness.

Obstacles appeared every day at every meal, and when efforts to overcome barriers failed to produce immediately perceptible benefits (i.e., improvements in physical or mental states), participants became frustrated and further doubted the need to change dietary habits.

Without giving these revelations away, let me say that the effort of the novelist to have a big finish is perceptible, and that this finish feels unprepared, excessively dramatic and not entirely credible.

Despite the enormous effort they sometimes entail, the accommodations of the commute are barely perceptible to the outsider.