Sentence examples for scarcely obvious from inspiring English sources

The first statement appears to be literally true, though the distinction was scarcely obvious at the time.

In many ways, this year of Eliot's life is the personal calm before the storm, although that is scarcely obvious from the public and professional nature of his letters.

The richness of the West Africa play was scarcely obvious when Musselman began looking at Triton as a possible takeover target in 1997.

Surrounding a house with grass is scarcely an obvious or a natural thing to do, and indeed in 1841, in his classic "Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening", the American landscape artist Andrew Jackson Downing wrote enviously of "the unrivalled beauty of the velvet lawns of England".

The point about hypocrisy could scarcely be more obvious if Mr. Taylor were delivering a sermon.

Her expression changes only by a scarcely perceptible but obvious nuance – and what a few minutes before was a sham is now the sincere expression of deep emotion.

Whether these changes are scarcely visible or overwhelmingly obvious, digital technology is transforming how we look at movies and what movies look like, from modestly budgeted movies shot with digital still cameras to blockbusters laden with computer-generated imagery.

The contribution of VCP to age-related changes in proteostasis and inflammation is although obvious but scarcely investigated.

And, to further reinforce our belief in his testimony, he employs a tone of such casual certainty as to suggest a point so obvious as to scarcely need making.

Brainy Britons may master several tongues; the others will continue to converse with the rest of mankind in God's own language, English.The advantages of being able to speak more than one tongue are so obvious that they scarcely need spelling out.

It was a curious day we spent together – one minute, we'd have a conversation, and she would succinctly say things that are so obvious it's scarcely creditable that they still need to be said: "Ninety-seven per cent of climate scientists agree.