Sentence examples for purposefully like from inspiring English sources

Max entered the kitchen with hisarms crossed, marching purposefully, like a general inspecting his troops.

But the problem with campaign consultants who come to the White House — Karl Rove is a good example — is that they aspire to be more than campaign consultants; they always want to transform themselves into policy aides, making historic decisions and striding the halls purposefully like characters from "The West Wing".

Where writers from Martin Amis to John Lanchester have covered the capital with a level of remove, as though circling the city from above to record its foibles, Smith writes from the bustling high streets of her youth, moving through the crowds purposefully like the native Londoner she is.

You might text him something purposefully ridiculous, like, "I'm really sorry I was late picking you up--we both know I'm a klutz, and I must have walked into at least five walls trying to get here".. Or you could text something more honest but still gently self-deprecating, like, "You know how I look at the time on the clock as a challenge instead of a warning?

The issue has a purposefully zine-like quality and a sense of humor, printing Mubarak jokes already in circulation and highlighting the follies of some media outlets covering and interpreting the events of the Arab Spring for the rest of us.

The white melts into the potatoes almost as if it were cream; the violently orange yolk oozes slowly, purposefully, less like a liquid than like a solid that has decided to slump into a nap.

The Snapguide iPad app, like Pinterest or Flipboard for How-Tos, purposefully feels like a magazine — with big colorful photos of step-by-step guides like "How To Make A Girly Shirt From A Man's Shirt" or "How To Make Your Eyes Look Bright And Awake".

As a singer, some of his inflections are borrowed from his idols, but his voice is purposefully alien, like Antony Hegarty singing at the bottom of a coal mine.

The landscape shown on the screen as you pan around is purposefully sparse, like how you might remember a place from your childhood – a half memory of a place.

Cagney played a series of patriots, and his gangster in Angels with Dirty Faces (1937) purposefully acts like a coward when he is executed so children who had looked up to him would cease any such admiration.

Some people have purposefully abstained from Liking Pages to keep their feed and billboard-free as possible.