Sentence examples for somehow intended from inspiring English sources

The abstractions -- swooping, semicircular bands and tangled ribbons of color -- are somehow intended as feminist statements, too.

They recall the heroines of Hadley's first book, Accidents in the Home, in that one of them ends up with the man who was somehow intended for the other.

He might as well have been buying lingerie, he felt; and, in fact, it seemed to him that the bouquet was somehow intended for the girl, as much as for Kate, who would've been, well, not exactly mortified to know that her husband was downstairs using a shopgirl as a proxy to get himself worked up for sex later that night.

If the idea that Psycho was somehow intended as a comedy – and we must bear in mind that these are off-the-cuff comments made more than 40 years ago – seems to fly in the face of everything we think we know about the 1960s horror widely considered to be the first slasher flick, it's worth bearing in mind that the two genres have never been all that far apart.

Because L1 does not have an assertion condition, however, according to L1 it is possible to lie by making ironic statements, telling jokes, writing fiction, acting in a play, and so forth, if the person making the untruthful statement (somehow) intends that it be believed to be true, as in the case of the 'irony lie' above.

But it's very odd for people to say that what we're seeing now was somehow not intended, or not what the UK signed up to.

Think about the things that are yet to still happen and whether there are signs or patterns you can discern that are somehow blocking your intended progress.

It seemed obviously improved but somehow degraded, grimly utilitarian, intended to suggest the receding future vision of "RoboCop": automatic voices encased in armor.

McIntyre has speculated that the pursuit of the tapes may be a political ploy intended to somehow damage Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams.

This is yet another of those instances in which Palin's assertions are simply bold-faced lies intended to somehow make her look more rugged or more adventuresome than she actually is.

More and more widely the DOA (death-upon-arrival) record is being replaced by ad hoc medical histories intended to somehow justify the admission of patients in a desperate and irreversible condition to ICUs (Intensive Care Units).