Sentences with phrase «so churlish»

Why do you assume the chinese goverment will be so churlish?

When a film carries a weight of import outside its value as entertainment, it feels slightly churlish to reduce it to its aesthetics, but not so churlish that I won't do it anyway.

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«It would be churlish to point out that in a subsequent volume of autobiography Canon Phillips explained to his readers the nature of these «difficult circumstances» through which he was passing: depressions and nervous breakdowns so severe as to constitute periodic bouts of lunacy; churlish because irrelevant.

But I suppose it is churlish to emphasise what she does not do when she does so much, and the rather more trenchant analysis which others might make of the same set of problems is not likely to have been honed working for steering groups anddeanery teams.

It seems almost churlish to criticise a book in which there is so much good will and genuine devotion to God and His teachings.

Almost everything short of the Kingdom of God can be improved, but some things are so very good that it seems churlish to wish they were better.

It seems almost churlish to try and suggest that Chelsea need to improve things in January after their unbeaten season so far, but that is the nature of football — to stand still is to move backwards, so it would be no surprise if Jose Mourinho dips his toes into the murky waters of the January transfer market.

To be honest, it was so beautiful that is made mere «rules» feel churlish.

However, had they done so, they wouldn't have a remarkable and unprecedented (in the modern era) achievement, so it would be a bit churlish to complain.

However churlish it may be to say so, though, one thing is nonetheless crashingly obvious: Labour should have been taking this stance since it left office, not a few weeks before polling day.

Loving Vincent was clearly a labour of love for all concerned, so I hope it doesn't seem churlish to wish that a Van Gogh biopic some seven or more years in the planning had spent more time at the drawing board.

It's not a very good movie, but, like its director, Ron Howard, it's so benign and apple - cheeked that it seems churlish to complain.

Dujardin in particular manages to bring some level of depth to the role so that his character's height isn't entirely played for churlish laughs.

On paper it seems churlish to reject the Audi so readily.

Skoda's interiors are as consistent in design as their exteriors, but it's churlish to really complain about something that works so well.

There has been some controversy over the game not including «G - Rank» — the intensely difficult high - level end - game content that generally comes in second - revisions in the series (In Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate but not the Japan - only 4, for example) but there's so much content, including high - difficulty «Deviant» monsters, that to anyone but the most extreme players it seems churlish to quibble.

So it's a little churlish for me to be complaining about having to spend a measly few days at home.

Husband hates Crowded House so he was a little churlish about it.