Sentence examples for while scarcely from inspiring English sources

Like most good magicians, he achieves his magical transformations while scarcely seeming to move at all.

Alexander the Great named Alexandria for himself, while – scarcely less immodestly – Peter the Great gave St Petersburg the name of his patron saint.

The speculative property market is just one current in the great flow of cash that sluices through Britain while scarcely touching the sides.

While scarcely any expert would criticize parents for paying attention to children's diets, many doctors, dietitians and eating disorder specialists worry that some parents are becoming overzealous, even obsessive, in efforts to engender good eating habits in children.

That he rose to the top while scarcely showing his face even as China opened its economy to the world is testimony to the unresolved contradictions of the Chinese experiment with a one-party market economy.

His ill-formulated remarks (about the possible causes of gender inequities among leading scientists) triggered long-simmering resentments about his impulsive and often hurtful conduct as the leader of an institution that, while scarcely flawless, has embodied high standards and worked harmoniously over the years.

What does it mean for the majority of us, the nonviolent millions, that, year after year, we should observe such a rising flood of savage fictional acts that, after a while, we scarcely notice or mind?

Essentially, though, it is a protracted examination of his own inner states, while showing scarcely a button, a gesture, a smell, a gleam of light of the once beloved.

In this model, the government is a super company, while citizens scarcely own residual claims and residual control rights to invest in human resource and economics.

For a while his reticence is scarcely an issue because the fights — sloppy, messy, brutal — are so involving, both appalling and appallingly watchable even in smeariest video.

While in Britain, scarcely a week passed without Mitrokhin re-reading his papers.