Sentence examples for scarcely qualified from inspiring English sources

With their top hats, thick cigars and gruff manners, these portly tycoons scarcely qualified as altruists.

And, having shortsightedly kept Turkey out of the European Union, the West is scarcely qualified to complain.

He is scarcely qualified for the job: in 2008, he led a UN-African Union panel on peacekeeping.

In "Everybody's Protest Novel," Baldwin insisted that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" scarcely qualified as literature and that Stowe was "not so much a novelist as an impassioned pamphleteer".

But whether the present younger generation is really any nearer to that frightful end than any previous one, is a question that we, of the present older generation, are scarcely qualified to answer.

Ingram Marshall's "Holy Ghosts," a 1999 work in which an oboe d'amore player sounds bucolic snatches of an aria from Bach's Mass in B minor amid digital-delay echoes, scarcely qualified as Minimalism at all.

The book, about making a profit in publishing, scarcely qualifies as a literary masterpiece.

To call it a complete shock would be disingenuous; over half the Argentinian starting XV play for French clubs and scarcely qualify as unknown warriors.

John Updike scarcely qualifies as a Kerouac disciple, but Rabbit's frightened flight by car in the beginning of "Rabbit, Run" is a kind of friendly, parodic allusion to the men of "On the Road".

But in a subsequent call, she says that there's a hitch that I can scarcely believe qualifies as a hitch.

Scarcely had he qualified when war broke out and he was briefly interned in Reading jail (along with half the future Arts Council, he used to joke).