Example sentences of "one 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | One might almost pity the frail old man in East Berlin , seemingly helpless and uncomprehending as his life 's work crumbles around him . |
| 5 | So far so good ; or one might almost say , so unproblematic . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Indeed , looking at some of the groups , one might almost think oneself viewing the painted vaults of an ancient Egyptian temple . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Between the Buid and the Christians there is a difference in outlook so profound that one might almost say that a state of permanent antagonism and hostility prevails between them . |
| 13 | Such an ability would be of more than merely theoretical interest : there are specialists , detectives one might almost say , who can take enormous quantities of program in a lower-level language ( not binary numbers , but normally machine code or something a little ‘ higher ’ ) and make plausible guesses as to what they actually do at a higher level of description ; or rather , given that they are told what the program was designed to do , work out how it accomplished the task and by what ‘ higher-level ’ steps . |
| 14 | One might almost speak of a complex symbiosis of different elements in society . |
| 15 | In the new year he sent Sixsmith a series — one might almost say a sequence — of screenplays on group-jeopardy themes . |
| 16 | One might almost think , says Robert — our Robert , must I call him ? — that she has been directing affairs herself ! |
| 17 | The treatment of the sky and of the areas between the various landscape objects , the boats , lighthouses and breakwaters , in terms of the same facets or pictorial units into which the objects themselves are dissolved , has the effect of making space seem as real , as material , one might almost say as ‘ pictorial ’ as the solid objects themselves . |
| 18 | But , but , but the whole social and cultural revolution evolution change has led I think to whole different schisms in the press which perhaps may have existed in some of the very one might almost say near communist publication like the |
| 19 | Indeed with involuntary memory as the creative principle , one might almost dare to say that the opposition between poetry and the analytical is removed , because perhaps one of Proust 's greatest achievements as a novelist is the way in which he reveals poetry and imaginative perception as the most appropriate and authentic means by which our human experience can be both understood and recreated for ourselves and for others . |