demandingly
Americanadverb
Other Word Forms
- undemandingly adverb
Example Sentences
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They need it, too: Kelli Barclay’s tap-driven dance routines are demandingly spectacular and endlessly resourceful.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2018
McCartney’s voice has long operated in a demandingly high range, and at 73, he had to push to reach some of the highest notes he wrote for himself all those years ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2016
The standards they have set for themselves this season have been demandingly high — lofty enough to match their league-high payroll.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2016
This troubled grandmother, though, is her best performance yet, reaching with perfect pitch all of the script's demandingly contradictory notes of tragedy, comedy, love, guilt, weakness and courage.
From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2014
At the end of the Twelfth and the beginning of the Thirteenth centuries this need became demandingly manifest, and the consequence was a movement that proved to be of great and far-reaching practical benevolence.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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