Sentence examples for she was scarcely from inspiring English sources

During the obligatory three debuts required of probationers, she was scarcely noticed by the critics.

She found she was scarcely standing, she was all but hanging from the telephone.

Though she was scarcely above showing off her brilliant technique, her musical embellishments had to stand the test of dramatic expressivity.

Round-faced and jolly, with fresh, rosy skin, she told me that she began her career when she was scarcely 19 by supplying recipes to her friends with new babies or demanding jobs.

No less so is Paula Rego, a painter I'd hardly heard of until a few years ago because she was scarcely known in the US - but how strongly put together, how viscerally and deeply felt, are her renderings of bad parental authority and of the psychic nightmares that lie just be low the supposedly sweet surface of childhood!

She said that the Countess had not been born into any great family, indeed that she was scarcely more than a farmer's daughter, but had achieved her present rank by marrying four husbands, each richer and greater than the one before.

She is scarcely read in America, despite her resurrection by the contemporary women's movement.

Pina may be less crudely opportunistic, but in keeping her affair hidden from Adolfo, she is scarcely more honest.

A young dead woman lies at the center of the mystery, but she's scarcely the only thing here haunting the living.

Indeed, as seen by Dmitri she is scarcely a character at all, more a cluster of suggestive adjectives: "bruised," "droopy-lidded," "glistening," "slack," "fleshy," "fattish," "boneless," "milky".

She's scarcely onstage, pulling her dark raspberry dress up to reveal her feet and calves, when you see all that's most imitable about her.