Sentence examples for slightly outrageous from inspiring English sources

It means to take the next, slightly scary, slightly outrageous, next step.

I liked the idea of a church prepared to make this slightly outrageous claim.

In Huntsville they'd made quite the couple, he the owner of the Porsche shop on the Speed Channel, she the loud, funny, slightly outrageous wife.

To the clothes, she added shoes with mirrorlike platforms and sometimes a slightly outrageous bag (and you thought bags couldn't get any bigger).

The committee chairwoman, Judith Pinch, said that the group felt he could promote poetry among city youths and that "his strengths outweighed some past reputation for being slightly outrageous".

His voice has the signature Rylance softness and musicality, but aligned with a boisterous and even slightly outrageous yokelism that only he could get away with – especially with the crazy made-up words such as "scrumdiddlyumptious".

Outriders are floating ideas only slightly more outrageous than the ones the government is reported to be working on.

The sum seemed only slightly less outrageous when he reasoned it was necessary to overcome the burden of running without name recognition.

But the fact is, his alleged Ponzi scheme was only slightly more outrageous than the "legal" scheme that Wall Street was running, fueled by cheap credit, low standards and high greed.

On a slightly less outrageous level, some argue that the age of consent is somewhat arbitrary, and serves little more than a practical function, lamenting how 'unfair' it is for 40-year-olds to be prosecuted for having sex with willing, and wanting, 15-year-olds.

Among the rules are these: *Everyone in an official position to decide whether the fare will rise -- in other words, Gov. George E. Pataki and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which he controls -- must act as if the very idea is only slightly less outrageous than levying a special tax on breathing.