Sentence examples for perhaps contrary to from inspiring English sources

Might is iffy, hypothetical, perhaps contrary to fact; may introduces a real possibility.

Perhaps contrary to Ms. Prada's original intention, the clothes do seem less suitable for an extrovert when seen in such an intimate setting.

Perhaps, contrary to the old saying, she does manage to be too rich and too thin - at least for British sensibilities.

She found a wide range of exotics were being grown but, perhaps contrary to expectations, it is the over-70s that are most active in growing exotic crops.

The law could, in theory, be tightened so as to prohibit revealing ANY information about an accused from the moment of his or her arrest, but that would be unacceptable today and perhaps contrary to the Human Rights Act.

PURCHASE - THE ability of contemporary artists to redeem weakly obvious ideas is emphasized, celebrated even, perhaps contrary to the curator's intentions, in "Acting Out: Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography" showing at the Neuberger Museum of Art at Purchase College.

Perhaps, and contrary to the article's point, it's a signal that the bad, old days of the Lower East Side aren't such ancient history after all, or — worse — that they may be on their way back.

Ryan exemplifies a certain type of Texas maleness, a type that Bush seems to hold almost in awe, perhaps because, contrary to perceptions in Blue America, Europe, and places of that sort, in the Texas context Bush isn't as brawnily masculine as it gets.

We then hypothesized that perhaps, in contrary to the global histone acetylation, histone acetylation at critical regions of the promoter of NIS gene might be specifically downregulated by BRAF V600E/MAPK pathway, hence negatively affecting the expression of NIS.

Finally, and perhaps more importantly, contrary to what would be expected, these criteria are also not able to differentiate those who demonstrate a plateau in V̇O2 from those who do not [17, 31].

In this high-tech age, the notion that so many students would throw themselves into something so decidedly un-techy is perhaps contrary.