Sentence examples for scarcely appropriate from inspiring English sources

A critic in The Real Estate Record & Guide wrote that the building was "spirited and picturesque" but found fault with its massive castlelike appearance, which was "scarcely appropriate to the domestic character except of a fortified dwelling".

The feudal host, whose knights were enfeoffed landholders obliged to give 40 days' service per year normally, had been adequate for defense and for service within a kingdom; but it was scarcely appropriate for the now more frequent long-distance expeditions of the time, whether crusades or sustained invasions such as those launched in the Anglo-French wars.

In the confused, counter-revolutionary aftermath, such words would scarcely seem appropriate.

His appearance and personality were scarcely more appropriate to such a setting than was the work he performed in it.

However, there is still scarcely any appropriate security protocol to guarantee the communication security of wireless body area networks (WBANs).

To house a cinema in a place of such sanctity could scarcely be more appropriate.

Bendel is scarcely alone in appropriating open space for its own use.

The use of the word "merely" could scarcely have been less appropriate.

Just look at his face!" It may have been a completely different era and set of circumstances, but you could have dubbed that famous Barry Davies commentary of that Franny Lee goal over footage of a triumphant José Mourinho strutting on to the pitch in Turin and it could scarcely have sounded more appropriate.

The 51-year-old prize could scarcely go to a more appropriate recipient.

How appropriate, then, that scarcely had the lights dimmed for good on director Bijan Sheibani's superb three-person cast before a good chunk of the audience was on its feet, as they had been several weeks before at the National Theatre production of War Horse - another show that, for altogether different reasons, pushes deeply emotive buttons.