Sentence examples for somewhat fails from inspiring English sources

The reteaming of Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer and leading man Jesse Eisenberg promises plenty of laughs, a promise on which 30 Minutes or Less (2011, Sony, 15) somewhat fails to make good.

So the local council for Wimborne, whatever it is called, would seem to have somewhat failed in its duty.

Well, not that they will end up next to the Apple Hi-Fi, but you know, somewhat fail.

Previous contagion related studies have somewhat failed to take account for the important distinction between the concepts of interdependence and contagionc.

At one point, he was suicidal, but wanted to lose his virginity before dying; after a sad, somewhat cruel failed sexual encounter, he had a failed suicide attempt on a train track.

But this somewhat bland account fails to convey the quirkiness of the Lamb siblings, or to illuminate a literary partnership that lasted for nearly forty years.

The wisecracking Luke seems derived from a Hollywood buddy movie, reciting impossibly adult repartee, and the somewhat kitsch finale fails to do justice to the book's overarching ambition.

One wonders what Jackson would describe as more than "somewhat tainted" if genocide fails to cut it.

That split is somewhat encouraging, given that many recent high-profile acquisitions have essentially been the hiring of product teams from failed companies with failed or failing products.

But the study of chaos is now somewhat discredited, having failed to make any useful progress.

Gdańsk became somewhat industrialized but failed to regain its stature as a great Baltic trading port.