Sentence examples for weaker passages from inspiring English sources

(his is the only house that doesn't suddenly sprout a flag), or obsessing about how a maid on a luxury cruise he takes manages to clean his room so unobtrusively (drawn from the essay that gives the show its title, this is actually one of the weaker passages), or describing, in hauntingly beautiful prose, his passage into adulthood on his 13th birthday.

Other art historians hold that van Eyck painted the panels around the early 1420s and attribute the weaker passages to a younger van Eyck's relative inexperience.

Delius's early biographer, the composer Patrick Hadley, observed that no trace of his academic tuition can be found in Delius's mature music "except in certain of the weaker passages".

In the novel's weakest passages, Harri's street-smart observations give way to portentous prose in which this pigeon-protector reflects on magpies, poisoned grain and the fleeting nature of human existence: "I owe it to all of you, a cheap act of confederacy against the drip-dripping of ill-captured sand".

A second Times review, written a few days after the premiere, suggested that the oratorio had articulated a key contemporary question: "How is the conflict of the inevitable with the intolerable to be resolved?" It pointed to the hope expressed in the final spiritual, "Deep River", and concluded that despite some weak passages the work created a successful partnership between art and philosophy.

In its treatment of an artist taking leave of life "Beloved Renegade" is a masterwork; we can easily overlook its weakest passage (the unconvincing, too-naïve children's games) for the original spectrum of its central drama.

The more prosaic elements would be left to assistants; in many works it is possible to discern abrupt shifts in style, with the relatively weak Deesis passage in van Eyck's Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych being a better-known example.

Rapidly improvised and written only weeks or days ahead of its serial publication, Pickwick contains weak and jejune passages and is an unsatisfactory whole partly because Dickens was rapidly developing his craft as a novelist while writing and publishing it.

The negative chemical kinetic effect of the weak expansion wave passage was temporarily offset by the flame length increase.

A similar bill has been introduced in the House by Representative Peter T. King of New York after the passage of a weaker measure in the House last year.

The employment minister, Michaelia Cash, has vowed to toughen up the registered organisations bill, despite the fact the Senate blocked passage of the existing, weaker bill.