Sentence examples for very knowingly from inspiring English sources

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You just have to be prepared to accept a strain of consciously delicate imagery that could have felt coy but that comes out as persuasively fragile – very knowingly so in a haunting episode involving a roomful of butterflies.

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He was also very funny – sometimes knowingly, sometimes not.

In real life, the makers of Little Britain are polite, very camp and knowingly uncool.

Thubron's book plugs very neatly, and knowingly, into this tradition, yet it is - as the jacket ungraciously puts it - "a novel which can be read on several levels".

Lawrence Norfolk and his villanelle are quite seductive and very clever, but knowingly succumbing to the lure of infidelity leads to stories that, however interesting individually (or sometimes not), by disregarding essential links to their ancestry lose significance in this experiment.

Otherwise you might come across as an arsonist-firefighter who is offering to contain the very situation you knowingly created.

A game that was knowingly very difficult, but also a direct sequel to one of the biggest cult hits we've seen in years.

Or how about when you knowingly consumed some very, very underdone chicken and spewed all over your housemate's freshly-washed sheets, deciding there and then to blame anyone in the world but yourself?

"In our very worst moments, when we knowingly lie to steal an advantage, we may even secretly glory in our mendacity.

"It still is low, given the egregious violations over a sustained period of time and embarrassing emails from the very top of these companies knowingly colluding to impede their employees' job mobility," Ms. Lobel said.

One might well wonder whether such 'relativity' is really semantic — whether what is said contains, as Hofweber suggests, an 'unarticulated constituent' corresponding to one's geographic location, as opposed to that location's being among the very many things one 'presupposes', knowingly or otherwise, in saying "August is a summer month" (see, e.g., Searle's (1980) views on 'the Background').

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