Sentence examples for rather deaf from inspiring English sources

"He was a rather deaf old man with a beard, and he kept his wife locked up indoors, doing the chores," Mrs. Walker said.

We sat down in armchairs, with a table between us, and I realized that Popper was rather deaf; for the next four hours, as we spoke, he would cup one of his enormous ears and press it toward me.

When Lord Derby's cabinet was announced in 1852, with a set of politicians who had very little ministerial experience, the aged, rather deaf Duke of Wellington shouted "Who?" as each name was read out.

It's not exactly where you expect him to live - he comes from rather posh stock - but his attitude to it is of a piece with his personality, which is to say that he sees the good in everything: 'I am rather deaf, so I don't notice the noise.' He grew up in Wiltshire, in the dreamy rural isolation that he describes so beautifully in The Other Garden.

To test the reliability of these judgments, Coder 2 performed a blind (or rather deaf) analysis of the gestures identified by Coder 1, coding the hand(s) used for each stroke without listening to the accompanying speech.

There's also the fact that if you're rather deaf, enjoy turning your music up loud, and/or use it to drown out background noise and the headphones are very open, you'll end up giving everyone around you something to gossip about.

Her comment: "It reminds me of a conversation I had when I was 10 years old — 'Which would you rather be, deaf or blind?' Frankly, I'd rather exercise and expand both my cognitive and non-cognitive abilities.

Previously - Would You Rather Be Deaf or Blind?

The script, which features many dreamlike interludes and some plodding overexplaining, creates a rather tone-deaf zaniness that is exacerbated by some of Ms. Finn's directorial choices, including cartoonish voice-overs.

Heedless of the despair and wreckage, he goes in search of talent for his show, leading to some rather tone-deaf moments (scenes in which scantily clad hopefuls shake their stuff in front of blown-up photographs of devastated city streets are particularly ill advised) and slick glossing over of complex social ills.

Airbnb took a rather tone-deaf approach to marketing against this proposal, putting up billboards and bus station ads about public services use of hotel tax money – inferring these services were profiting off of Airbnb's hotel tax payments.