Sentence examples for slightly defeated from inspiring English sources

There's a saturnine, slightly defeated air to his alcoholic Valmont.

Three-quarter-length trousers flapping in the breeze, panamas pulled down firmly, faces glowing, Coogan and Brydon look ordinary and slightly defeated.

When none could be found, Mr. Forrester emerged from under the sink looking slightly defeated but pledging to help the residents should he be elected.

There is Laurie, who goes by the sobriquet of Silk Spectre, as if hoping to become a top-class shampoo; she is played by Malin Akerman, whose line readings suggest that she is slightly defeated by the pressure of pretending to be one person, let alone two.

(His bellowed line "You're late!" in "The Dogs of War," the fury rising to a leonine whine on the last word, is a real puzzler.) Vic is drawn and slightly defeated; Mr. Walken's lost, trembling cadence makes him seem beaten down by his past life of petty crime.

Santorum himself sounded slightly defeated when asked about it recently.

While it's true that the only thing in my life that causes me sleepless nights and headaches came with us (slightly defeating the point of getting away from it all), even she couldn't withstand the invincible pressure to relax and slept the most peaceful nights of her life there.

It would be a lot more expensive and also the train link would be slower, which slightly defeats the purpose of the whole exercise," he said.

"It would be a lot more expensive and also the train link would be slower, which slightly defeats the purpose of the whole exercise".

Yet a defeated, slightly sorrowful air hangs over Mr. Din's performance, and the mood is infectious.

Although his serve-and-volley game was slightly out of sync, Sampras defeated Karol Beck, who has yet to play a match in an ATP Tour event, 6-3, 6-1 (3), 6-1, 7-5, in 2 hours 25 minutes.