Example sentences of "might almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 2 | In other words , Braque divines the essential spirit — one might almost call it the ‘ soul ’ — of each object that he paints . |
| 3 | He had previously written a journalistic piece about the killings , in which De Freitas figured as shabby and contemptible , and Gail Benson as a silly upper-class woman whose accessibility to the knife might almost have been construed as a last desperate act of Sixties modishness : an antic exported from Swinging London . |
| 4 | Ackroyd warns us not to jump to a conflation here , but he is intrigued by the coincidence , and it might almost serve as an emblem of his concern throughout the biography with the connection between poetry and feigning , and with the potency of parody . |
| 5 | Eric is represented as sympathetic , and the counsel he imparts to Patrick on the subject of gender might almost have been imparted by Patrick : |
| 6 | And it might almost be the work of Graham McClintoch . |
| 7 | His first and continuing urge was to drive him towards crisis and clarity , which involved , one might almost say which meant , finding a podvig that would satisfy his idea of Stavrogin . |
| 8 | One might almost pity the frail old man in East Berlin , seemingly helpless and uncomprehending as his life 's work crumbles around him . |
| 9 | VAN MORRISON The sombre balladeer , currently on form which you might almost describe as chirpy . |
| 10 | But all the stamping and cheering in the Empress ballroom might almost have been a vain attempt to muffle the sound of hats flopping intermittently into the leadership ring . |
| 11 | So far so good ; or one might almost say , so unproblematic . |
| 12 | A requirement to minimise , even to trivialise the aesthetic — one might almost say , a fear of the aesthetic — is the hollowness at the heart of historical materialism as it is defended here . |
| 13 | Yet she might almost have passed , being foreign . |
| 14 | Then , larger than life , so vivid she might almost have reached out and touched herself , there she was , transformed , hardly recognizable : teeth bared in a grin of manic glee , her eyes white-hot and blazing like a berserk android in a film she had seen once . |
| 15 | In these colourful tales , which we might almost believe were collected from early copies of ancient Israelite boys ' comics , Samson wages a one-man war against the Philistines , who are represented as having control of the country . |
| 16 | If that is so he might almost be considered the initiator of scholasticism with its dialectic method . |
| 17 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 18 | The whole thing sometimes appears such an enigma that there might almost have been a conspiracy of silence . |
| 19 | It might almost have been planned deliberately by a machiavellian priesthood trained in deep psychological indoctrination techniques . |
| 20 | Elinor might almost accept that . |
| 21 | One might almost be driven to conclude that there are in fact two ‘ plans ’ , the public one which always seems to go awry and a secret one that the economy actually works to . |
| 22 | He sounded so close he might almost have been in the next room instead of the other side of the Atlantic ocean . |
| 23 | Genteel and restful with lace cloths on the little tables , parlour palms in pots around what might almost have been a dais for a three-piece orchestra , and table service by waitresses in neat black dresses and white lace caps and aprons , the Palm Court was invariably at its busiest with morning coffees and afternoon teas when shoppers were tempted with an array of dainty cakes and pastries and hot toasted teacakes in silver dishes complete with lids . |
| 24 | Rather as one might almost unconsciously adjust the position of a book to get the best light from a bedside lamp without ever really thinking of angles and directions , so must the tiger get himself into the most appropriate location vis-a-vis the three-dimensional world of scents known to both himself and his normal prey . |
| 25 | The then modish humanity had gone into a violent reaction against the ancient severity , ‘ and might almost be supposed to see in the fact of having lost or squandered other people 's property a peculiar title to indulgence . ‘ |
| 26 | Dad shook his head so violently , he might almost have been in pain . |
| 27 | Indeed , looking at some of the groups , one might almost think oneself viewing the painted vaults of an ancient Egyptian temple . |
| 28 | Compared with the black and grey tones for the blue and red of the other roundels one might almost believe that on number five the roundel ring immediately inside the yellow is red and the inner spot is blue , although on this one the tail stripes appear similar to numbers one , two , four and six . |
| 29 | Tonks feared that the All Blacks playing a South African XV at Treviso would so widen the gap in South Africa that future combination might almost be impossible . |
| 30 | Their subordination to adults in general is minimized by what might almost be called an avoidance of them : from the age of five or six , they return home only to eat and sleep , and spend the rest of their time in unsupervised gangs . |