Sentence examples for referring somewhat from inspiring English sources

In the Guardian interview, Franzen, referring somewhat disdainfully to James Wood's "How Fiction Works," says, "third person is the default person.

"The West Side Boys and all that is not really my thing," Ms. von Otter said, referring somewhat inaccurately to the reigning pop trend of teeny-bopper bands like the Backstreet Boys.

Mr. Stringer, referring somewhat loosely to a report in The New York Times revealing that the Spitzer family's charitable foundation has $10 million of investments in funds incorporated in the Cayman Islands, suggested that Mr. Spitzer himself had offshore investments and demanded that he release five years of his tax returns.

However, the policy is still rather circumspect, referring somewhat vaguely to "some interactive voice commands" that "may be transmitted".

In her order, she referred, somewhat cryptically, to "compelling reasons justifying an extensive continuance of pretrial and trial proceedings".

A plaque to the wig-wearing Count Rumford refers somewhat opaquely to his being "Driven... hence by neighborly intolerance".

The designers of Valentino, Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli, referred somewhat obliquely in their press notes to a "digital romanticism".

In a letter to Mamaine after their first sexual encounter, Koestler refers, somewhat apologetically, to what he calls "an element of initial rape".

We have referred somewhat loosely to the sensory and intellectual components of human experience but have said little about the possible relations and dependencies that exist between them.

Mr. Obama has referred, somewhat vaguely, to reinforcing "international norms," or standards, against the use of chemical weapons, which are categorized as "weapons of mass destruction" even though they are far less powerful than nuclear or biological weapons.

The new film moves between Germany and Turkey and is also divided into chapters, the first two with titles foretelling the death of characters, the third called 'The Edge of Heaven', which refers somewhat ironically to the new Europe and, rather less ironically, to the story of Abraham and Isaac as recounted in the Bible and the Koran.