Sentence examples for proved slightly from inspiring English sources

This proved slightly complicated.

The timing of the survey results, however, proved slightly awkward for the church.

Any idea that such big names would spontaneously combust when finally together on stage proved slightly wide of the mark.

Once, when business proved slightly sluggish, a local chain crafted a special vegetarian menu dubbed "Loma Linda specials".

Comedies have proved slightly harder to condense, he said, because certain jokes have setups and reference points that must be included for the jokes to make sense.

Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements was the final offering, but Elts proved slightly mechanical in it and the work lacked the necessary bite.

Cissé, however, is proving slightly elusive at present.

Atwood is coy about the stories' relationship to one another in a way that proves slightly tricky for the reviewer but stimulating for the reader.

Second good thing is that, left to their own devices for a month, the 13 men are so far proving slightly fascinating in themselves.

Inside, functional proves slightly less beautiful – although the dashboard's naked, satin-finish carbon fibre and a centre console machined from a solid slab of aluminium are as pure as you can get in construction media.

The emphasis on surviving might prove slightly trickier in the case of the writer and philosopher Simone Weil, who died during the Second World War partly as a result of reducing her diet to a bare minimum, out of a deep sense of identification with victims of the war.