Sentence examples for scarcely designed to from inspiring English sources

Movies are the bedmates of poetry, as Bowie knew, and to treat them as a sort of illustrated novel is to load them with a burden they were scarcely designed to bear.

It could scarcely be better designed to ensure the extinction of the world's largest remaining tiger population.

Even the good ones are hampered by an economic and political system that could scarcely be better designed to frustrate them.

Far from it: this preposterous white elephant could scarcely be better designed to persuade people that nuclear energy is an expensive and dangerous distraction from the decisions we have to make.

But it gets worse, because maize farming could scarcely be better designed to cause soil erosion, compaction and run-off, which threaten the fertility of the land, the health of our freshwater ecosystems and the homes at risk from flooding.

As the Russian government pointed out, the attack could scarcely have been better designed to scupper the talks.

The paragraphs they've pulled out (sorry) for the shortlist are scarcely erotic, and weren't designed to be, but the cumulative effect must have caused some flushing at least.

That the study hadn't been designed to analyze longevity scarcely mattered to Friedman: here was a large group of people who had undergone standardized assessments from age 11 till death.

Hogarth knew that a theatre designed "to prevent offence" was a sad thing, scarcely worth defending.

"Art fairs in Bushwick... look for all the world like celebrations designed to shock conservative sensibilities, except that there is scarcely anyone with such sensibilities around to be shocked.

Each unit looks scarcely larger than the aspirin-size battery it runs on, and is designed to be inserted deep into an ear canal.