Example sentences for: tidily

How can you use “tidily” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The chief complaints: 1) Wilde's sharp edge has been dulled--it's "likable" and "handsome" but "diluted" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ); 2) the story "unfolds with all the urgency of a dainty tea napkin" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ); and 3) the plot, a blackmail scheme with many moral quandaries to resolve, ends too tidily and happily for its own good.

  • The problem both encounter in trying to script the lessons in too didactic a way--rule out Babar as colonialist, racist, sexist (Kohl), rehabilitate Goody Two Shoes (Bennett)--is that they often end up with duller stories than children deserve, tidily presented with trite interpretations.

  • The mechanical structure of our inner ear tidily maps the frequency of sound onto different positions of the basilar membrane in the snail-shaped cochlea [9].

  • In choosing to adapt and direct The Winslow Boy , based on one of Rattigan's most tidily crafted problem pieces, Mamet points up an aspect of his own work that has increasingly dwarfed all others: the drama as a procession of archly formal negotiations.

  • --Prudie, tidily


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