Sentence examples for somewhat universal from inspiring English sources

For Arendt feared, correctly as it turns out, that this inescapable "unity of the world" might result in a "tremendous increase in mutual hatred and a somewhat universal irritability of everybody against everybody else".

In our own time, amid what Hannah Arendt described as a "tremendous increase in mutual hatred and a somewhat universal irritability of everybody against everybody else", this fragile self has become particularly vulnerable to ressentiment.

Anita Gates's article on the Satellite Sisters ["Eavesdropping on a Kaffeeklatsch of the Air," July 9] accepts that the concerns and experiences of these women are at least somewhat universal: mud bath spas in California, Lancome makeovers, how best to ship a gravy boat to Thailand, even living somewhere like Greenwich Village, for that matter.

Iyer's book makes it plausible that the boy from the Tibetan backwoods may be outlining, in his own frequently Forrest Gumpish way, "a process of mutual understanding and progressing self-clarification on a gigantic scale" — the process that Arendt believed necessary for halting the "tremendous increase in mutual hatred and a somewhat universal irritability of everybody against everybody else".

Entrepreneurship is different for everybody, but these five truths seem somewhat universal.

Several studies show that images of snakes and spiders, for example, elicit a somewhat universal fear response, more than other images.

Current scientific approaches have produced a nested yet nonhierarchical picture of biological classification, in stark contrast to the heirarchical scheme of Linnean taxonomy, which specifies somewhat arbitrary universal ranks of classification (e.g., Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order).

Partial screening is somewhat effective, but universal screening prevents the most infections.

The stakes are somewhat heightened for Universal Music, which is liable for rent on 16 HMV stores as part of its £1.2bn acquisition of EMI Music last year.

"This is somewhat of a universal problem for the industry," said Dick Westerling, a spokesman for Regal Cinemas in Knoxville, Tenn., which has new megaplexes at Battery Park City in Manhattan and in Brooklyn Heights and will open a theater on Staten Island next month.

But while all the G8 governments have now theoretically signed up to a no-ransoms agreement on paper, in practice the will to comply is still somewhat short of universal.