Sentence examples for slight wish from inspiring English sources

But I can honestly say sometimes – just sometimes – I have this slight wish that I don't make it.

The desire for change has moved from a slight wish to a hard desire for a new alignment.

Proudly declaring himself to be English (rather than British) with "not the slightest wish to integrate with anybody", he stated his admiration for controversial MP Enoch Powell.

Its familiar habits and customs have shaped the way I think and feel; nor do I have the slightest wish to extricate myself from its demands.

In a slight twist to the payoff function (2), we instructed the allocators to give each individual i whom they wish to serve at least m i +1 ECU in order to secure a positive payoff h).

In contrast, you could have wished for a slight nod to the present during the Hespèrion concert at Jordan Hall on Saturday afternoon.

Now I wish to take a slight and surprising detour, one that is not intended to make a strong argument so much as it is intended to suggest a new way of seeing.

"Uber does not wish to run the slightest risk to UberPop drivers and passengers," it added.

Merteuil replies, with the slightest lift of an eyebrow, "I wish I could".

She then wrote a letter to Ethel Byrne, claiming that the scriptwriter wished to make a slight alteration to the facts of the founding of the birth-control movement, regarding the trials the two women had faced in 1917.

"I'm angry this is being done to Martha's name and her wishes," Mr. Protas, a slight, dark-haired man said in a recent interview in an Upper East Side restaurant.