Sentence examples for sort of engaged from inspiring English sources

Those are loud and generally less impressive than Mr. Pearce and especially Mr. Kingsley, who turn in the sort of engaged performances that Mr. Downey no longer gives in the franchise.

In the middle of all the chaos, which includes a brawl in Slumber Room No. 1 at Stiva's Funeral Parlor and a free-for-all wrestling match at the Snake Pit, Stephanie manages to total another car (this year's victim is a black Honda CR-V, and its replacement is a Harley-Davidson FXDL Dyna Low Rider with custom green flames) and get herself "sort of engaged" to her hunk of a boyfriend.

"I've sort of engaged in a bit of educational outreach," Klotz says, "and that [question] comes up quite a lot".

When I did deputy PMQs or stood in for PMQs... sometimes I'd lose it and shout at the Labour benches, but you know if I was to sort of engage then it would be written up the following day as "Oh, he's weak, he's rubbish", all the rest of it.

Well, I can't sort of engage in a mental debate about it every goddamn time, especially when time's of the essence.

@KidWeil March 5, 2014 Which has prompted all sorts of engaged frothing.

We sort of got engaged.

(Matt's only significant girlfriend since college, he later reveals, fell for and is now "sort of, like, engaged" to Davis).

In an earlier incarnation, Skrillex was the frontman of the screamo band From First to Last, and his is the sort of sweaty, engaged physical stage presence that used to be the purview of frontmen in hair-metal bands.

The sort of trading engaged in by Wilshire, known in the industry as market timing, is not necessarily illegal, but regulators, including the S.E.C. and the New York attorney general, are investigating mutual fund companies that quietly permitted the practice while discouraging it in their prospectuses.

They further agree that these imaginary constructions lay the foundation for the sort of social, engaged agent we will become.