All 8 Uses of
sufficient
in
The Remains of the Day
- That is to say, I did not take sufficient account of the fact that at that time of the day, what Mr Farraday enjoys is a conversation of a light-hearted, humorous sort.†
Chpt Prol.sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming.†
Chpt Prol.
- Though of course,' the Society went on, 'this by itself is far from sufficient to satisfy requirements.†
Chpt 1e -
- To be worthwhile, any such conference would have to be of sufficient weight so that it could have a decisive effect on the 'official' international conferences several of which had already taken place with the express purpose of reviewing the treaty, but which had succeeded in producing only confusion and bitterness: Our Prime Minister of that time, Mr Lloyd George, had called for another great conference to be held in Italy in the spring of 1922, and initially his lordship's aim was to organize a gathering at Darlington Hall with a view to ensuring a satisfactory outcome to this event.†
Chpt 2m -
- Otherwise you may like to speak to Martha or Dorothy, or any members of the male staff you deem sufficiently trustworthy.†
Chpt 2m - *sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- It was in the midst of these preliminary discussions that his lordship entrusted me with a mission sufficiently unusual for it to have remained in my memory to this day, alongside those other more obviously unforgettable occurrences that were to take place during that remarkable week.†
Chpt 2m -
- One would have thought that having to abandon the Ford on some lonely hill, having to walk down to this village in near-darkness by the unorthodox route one did, would be sufficient inconvenience to befall one for a single evening.†
Chpt 3e -sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- The rain has now steadied somewhat, but it is still sufficiently hard as to discourage one from going out and wandering around the village.†
Chpt 4a -sufficiently = adequately (in a manner that provides enough -- often without being more than is needed)