Sentence examples for sort of succeeds from inspiring English sources

Spall went to great lengths to get his drawing and painting right, and sort of succeeds.

"I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded," she has said.

Some very clever good guys did their best to contain a program made by some very clever bad guys and they sort of succeeded.

Pusha T and Big Sean sort of succeed in Kanye-ish rapping, but Pusha T lacks the inherent star power of West, and Sean, whose goatee suggests that as a child he was adopted by a wild pack of strippers, is only good at rapping about butts.

Best trying-to-be-funny-and-only-sort-of-succeeding bit.

Whether this sort of response succeeds remains a matter for debate.

I wish we had some technological or technocratic solution, because the odds of that sort of thing succeeding — if they could succeed — would be better.

The latter's pummelling post-punk answered in the affirmative one other question: would just this sort of act succeed in Derry, as in Dingle, because of the contrast between the intimacy of the surroundings and their noisenik shtick?

Deflationism about truth or truth-aptness can be used to argue that there is no room for non-cognitivism of the sort that succeeds in vindicating much of moral practice.

Judges might not allow the removal of asylum-seekers to be processed elsewhere; countries might refuse to accept would-be asylum-seekers into their camps; locals might grumble that refugees were being pampered.Even if a plan of this sort succeeds, and flows of asylum-seekers dry up, no rich country should imagine that illegal immigration will stop.

He's the sort-of editor who succeeded the Telegraph's last actual editor, Tony Gallagher, after Tony got dumped in the Seiken psychodrama and went back to his Daily Mail roots.