Sentences with phrase «almost beggars»

It almost beggars belief that we're now broaching the subject of sacking Klopp.

The bizarre events that have unfolded in recent days almost beggar belief: John McAfee, the tech entrepreneur who pioneered anti-virus software, has gone into hiding.

The Twitter app stands out as one that feels incomplete: there are some quirks in the app that almost beggar belief.

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D. T. Niles's dictum that «evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where to find food» is quoted in the documents almost as often as the Great Commission itself!

Whether the offended individual sits broken - hearted, staring almost like a beggar at the Paradox, paralyzed by his suffering, or he sheathes himself in the armor of derision, pointing the arrows of his wit as if from a distance — he is still passive and near at hand.

«But 61 years down the line, it appears our nation has become a beggar nation, almost always calabashing, trotting the globe and seeking for favours,» Bernard Mornah told 3news.com's Alfred Ocansey on Tuesday.

In Oak Ridge atoms seemed more manifest than elsewhere in the world; in Ernest Rutherford's words, you could almost see the jolly little beggars.

There were great designers such as Louis Bleriot, who flew across the English Channel, the first man to do so, with a foot so badly burned that he had to be lifted in and out of his seat; Thomas Scott Baldwin, «Cap» t Tom,» inventor of the flexible parachute and incomparable showman, who almost convinced the world that balloons were the future of aviation; John Moisant, who after three failed attempts to overthrow the government of El Salvador took to aviation and within months became the preeminent flyer in the world; Harriet Quimby, an actress and journalist who cajoled flying lessons from her employer to become the first woman to receive a pilot's license and then the first to cross the English Channel; and Glenn Curtiss's most famous flyer, Lincoln Beachey, perhaps the finest aviator the world has ever seen, a man who boasted so many «firsts,» «bests,» and «never before dones» that his exploits would beggar credibility had they not all been documented by eyewitnesses.