He tilted his arm akimbo, offered it to her with a smile and a gallant inclination from the waist, that were perhaps, on the surface, meant to appear as badinage, merely a bantering parody, but were in reality more sincerely intended.

Mr. Westenburg's performance was sincerely intended and often effective.

It disputed Israel's claim that it ever sincerely intended to share land with the Palestinians as laid out in the United Nations 1947 partition plan.

However sincerely intended, the warnings, posted on one of a growing number of Web sites that promote eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, may serve more as a lure, especially for curious teenagers.

It is sincerely intended, but it seems less inevitable than obligatory: it gives shape to a narrative that doesn't need it.

They may have sincerely intended to represent the interests of the common people but their new power apparatus would also "elude their intentions and tend to exist for its own sake."

Yet this is as nothing to the hazard your mission, however sincerely intended, poses for mankind.

Here, Bankston stresses, what matters is not what the government told the telecoms about the NSA program, or even whether the government sincerely intended or believed it to be sufficiently narrowly tailored to prevent terrorism, but whether it was, objectively, so tailored.

The Fifth Symphony was his expression of atonement, whether or not sincerely intended.

He had sincerely intended to get in touch with his dragon friend as soon as he landed, but it had not proved to be easy: "Sir Isaac" had not landed at New London, nor had he been able to find out from the local office where he had landed.