Sentence examples for scarcely qualifies from inspiring English sources

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

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".

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

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

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

Colin "Funky" Miller, cheerful company but scarcely qualified to rub ointment into MacGill's callused fingers, has played 18 Tests - one more than MacGill.

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.

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.

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