Sentence examples for scant accomplishment from inspiring English sources
As compared to Richard Nixon, the incumbent vice president for eight years, John F. Kennedy was a lesser known senator of scant accomplishment.
Many were lured by his charm and retail skills and the nerve of someone with scant life accomplishments — as his premeditatedly self-deprecating testimony reminded the jury as subtly as a Times Square Jumbotron.
Some of its 10 bullet points were true (yes, Mr. Kennedy was cited for reckless driving while in college), but others were misleading assumptions (no, his accomplishments were not "scant").
But some party loyalists saw his behavior after the hurricane as an echo of his convention keynote address in August, when he trumpeted his own accomplishments but made scant reference to Mr. Romney.
His comments about acting are striking, however, whether for the scant respect he pays his own accomplishments — "for me to walk onto a movie set and play Mark Antony without more experience was asinine" — or his dismissal of Hollywood's domination of international film and television as "a tragedy".
Somehow, the conservancy's ongoing accomplishments barely made it to print in a scant portion of a single sentence in your article, but its author's vitriolic attention was fully engaged by harmless polo chatter and the maunderings of bitter divorcées.
Wilde's actual accomplishments, disregarding a brilliant undergraduate career at Oxford, were scant at that point.
