Sentence examples for was quite devoid from inspiring English sources

He was quite devoid of the dubious, if effective, quality of "ratlike cunning" once ascribed to successful journalists and all too familiar in the higher reaches of party politics.

The longest to have survived purports to be by Herodotus himself; but it is quite devoid of objective truth.

As for Mr. Tadie's own biography, it turns out to be quite devoid of any compelling insight into Proust's character or work.

But this book is quite exuberantly devoid of political argumentation; it is a loving portrait of a rambunctious monster, warts and all.

Angelin Preljocaj's "Songe de Medée" — no less idiotic, with Medea daubing herself flamboyantly and lingeringly in her children's blood — is quite as devoid of interesting or expressive choreography.

In Italy, life is dedicated to pleasure; in Spain, it is never quite devoid of the tragic.

It is interesting to consider why a gene known to be involved in RIP in Neurospora would be quite conserved and functional in an organism apparently devoid of active RIP and DNA methylation.

For a 28-year-old whose career is devoid of top-flight playing time, that is quite the gamble.

Still, Mr. Isherwood is quite comfortable telling the world blithely that Rain is utterly devoid of "authenticity".

That the executive summary and vision that open the National Pain Strategy are nearly devoid of explicit mention of complementary and integrative methods and practitioners is quite probably a function of who was invited to the table.

Among the S-layer proteins from Lactobacilli, which are devoid of SLH motifs, the regions important for cell wall binding and self-assembly are quite different.