All 20 Uses of
sufficient
in
A Soldier of the Great War
- Three times a week, Rossini and Verdi marshaled sufficient force and beauty to shut the students up and bring them to the kind of rapt attention that the singers of La Scala thought the natural state of mankind.†
Chpt 2
- You aren't sufficiently deformed, and you've grown far too tall.†
Chpt 2
- The handwriting was neither free enough of the rules of penmanship to have been that of an adult nor sufficiently innocent to have been that of a child.†
Chpt 2
- Rigorously trained in several philosophical schools, he had realized early in his university career that, however admirable any one of them, none was sufficient to explain life in the world.†
Chpt 2
- Everyone has a self-made pass for travel through the terror and sadness of the world, and because, in the end, nothing is sufficient, everyone wants to share his own method, hoping for strength in numbers.†
Chpt 2
- Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate.†
Chpt 2
- Suspecting a trap, the colonel ordered his men off the ramparts, but not before serious injuries had resulted from fights for possession of an insufficient number of binoculars.†
Chpt 5
- This went on until the fire had burned down sufficiently to require the third shepherd, a mute by the name of Modugno, to throw on more logs.†
Chpt 6
- We lack sufficient quantities of the drugs we need.
Chpt 6 *sufficient = adequate (without being more than is needed)
- It's when the exalted one infuses into the body of a scribe sufficient quantities of the sap that flows in the boiling passages of the bony valleys of the moon….†
Chpt 6
- Each car was attached to a wooden spar extending from the hub of a wheel, and the whole contraption was spinning at a speed sufficient to dazzle the babies as the fathers pretended they were driving real cars.†
Chpt 6
- I'm now sufficiently tranquil not to have to convince anyone of anything.†
Chpt 6
- When working in daylight proved insufficient to honor the dead, the quarry detail had been divided into groups and shifts as complex and disorganized as the rock faces they mined, and their industry continued into the night at a fast and even pace, under and above the glare of torches, floodlights, and strings of clear electric bulbs.†
Chpt 7
- Though he hadn't suffered a chill, had had sufficient rest, and was neither wet nor exhausted, he felt, nonetheless, like a typhoid patient.†
Chpt 7
- After half an hour the orderlies unstrapped him and moved on to a patient who had been sleeping on a stretcher in the corridor, and soon this next patients screams were sufficient to awaken all the soldiers who had died in the Alto Adige.†
Chpt 7
- Winter winds made the city sufficiently icy and gray for the stoves to be lit in the huge salons and immense corridors of the palace.†
Chpt 8
- Because of the way he spoke, and because his defiance had marked him as a leader, he was sought by socialists and anarchists, who were interested primarily in giving directions and commands, and punishing anyone not sufficiently possessed of their vision— with reluctance, of course (punishment, they thought, was something the world could do without were the world only properly uniform), but with enthusiasm.†
Chpt 8
- He now realized, almost in shock, that a face may be described in words, or photographs, or a death mask, with perfect adequacy-if only it is sufficiently hideous.†
Chpt 8
- The route had been sufficiently remote to render towns and villages silent and motionless but for the blinking of a light or the slow-paced climb of a pillar of coal smoke into an azure infinity that quickly erased it.†
Chpt 10
- What great sin do I commit, therefore, if I hold that it is insufficient?†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(sufficient) adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)