Sentence examples for somewhat historical from inspiring English sources

The power cut was reported as somewhat historical because of its extent, duration and the unusual weather conditions with temperatures down to −25°C.

This chapter begins with an introduction to the agile enterprise concept and provides a somewhat historical perspective on the evolution of information technology and its impact on business operations and management.

These, albeit now somewhat historical, data provide the 'best available', recent evidence on time spent cooking in the UK.

Of somewhat less historical significance, I've seen a guy throw a bad pass that bounced off a teammate's head and into the basket.

This was the source of a kind of pre-Islamic mythology that the literati preferred above the somewhat meagre historical accounts of the Arab pagan past otherwise available to them.

Benjamin has made a name for herself writing fiction about somewhat obscure historical figures — her previous novels are "Alice I Have Been" (about Alice Liddell) and "The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb" (about Lavinia Warren Stratton) — but she told Amazon.com that despite the Lindberghs' celebrity, her new book had been her most challenging yet.

(Criterion Collection, Blu-ray $29.95, DVD $19.95, not rated) The Buccaneer Released in 1938, "The Buccaneer" was also an exception in the career of its maker — in this case the Hollywood potentate Cecil B. DeMille, who by the late '30s had come to specialize in somewhat solemn historical pageants.

So it comes as quite a surprise that his latest project, though just as rich in CGI, is quite an intelligent, if somewhat broad historical drama that portrays William Shakespeare as a drunk and posits the Earl of Oxford as the true genius of English literature.

It's much more likely for the relics to come from a somewhat later historical period.

That might mean a cartoon rock band or world music from Africa or a concept album about 16th century figure John Dee, a somewhat obscure historical figure to most who was a major figure in his time, a genuine scholar and also a spiritualist who tried to commune with angels.

Both of these latter predictions are basically bone out by the current nuclear data, even though each marker suggests a somewhat different historical scenario.