Racing along the Mississippi River or a town flooded under 10 feet of water, you must find and jump huge gaps and perform somewhat mean-spirited tricks like knocking fishermen into the water.
Their sales disappointed Little, Brown, his publisher, which blamed their brevity, and some critics were mystified ("What do we say?" Hugh Kenner, in a somewhat mean-spirited review in the Times, asked).
I didn't care for Unbaby.me, since it's somewhat mean-spirited.
If this revelation makes Noble seem somewhat mean-spirited – surely there's enough room in that souped-up van for two, the bastard – it couldn't reflect better on his ill-prepared friend.
Ask trusted resources which of your qualities are annoying or even somewhat mean-spirited.
On average, the responses were between "not challenging" and "somewhat challenging" (mean = 2.5 ± 0.3, where 2 = not challenging and 3 = somewhat challenging).
Based on fetal biparietal diameter (BPD) in the second trimester, pregnancy duration is calculated to be somewhat shorter (mean 280.6 days) [ 3] than previously thought.
In addition, women who tested positive for methamphetamine were somewhat older (mean age of 23.5 versus 22.6 years, p = 0.004), had higher monthly incomes (R304.2 versus R211.4, p = 0.009) than women who tested negative for methamphetamine (Table 1).
Although the dropout rates in the intervention groups were somewhat higher (mean 30.5% (SD 20.2)) than in controls (24.9% (24.8)), the difference did not reach statistical significance (t(28) 0.68, p=0.50).
In those columns Mr. Tanaka, who is single, frequently chronicles his dates, delicately describing their more intimate moments with a catch phrase he coined, "pero-guri," which Mr. Tanaka said, somewhat shyly, means "caressing and grinding".
