• And the girls, three of them university students, are so silly: dreaming non-stop of love and marriage, practising astrology, obsessed by the men they never, or hardly ever, are allowed to see but with whom they chirp like crickets throughout the night on their mobile phones.

    ECONOMIST: Saudi fiction

  • True, but with Beethoven as never before individual human aspirations, fears and passion are central to the music, threatening to overwhelm its structure, albeit never (well, hardly ever) doing so.

    ECONOMIST: Millennium issue: Western classical music

  • Medical rationing is never easy, and is hardly helped by the war of words between large and small transplant centres.

    ECONOMIST: States v. Washington

  • In a few unforgettable scenes, he nails the image of a guy who hardly dared to countenance escape, and never left.

    NEWYORKER: Not Fade Away

  • Many leaders on the continent are hardly paragons of democracy themselves, and so would never condemn a fellow despot.

    ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe

  • This will hardly reassure the many ethnic Chinese who fear they will never be fully accepted in Indonesia.

    ECONOMIST: The ethnic Chinese in Indonesia continue to live in fear

  • Mama was never any good at sums and she could hardly spell cat.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'True Grit'

  • What's more, the rightward cast of many Democrats in the freshman class is hardly bad news for conservativism ... leadership is never weakened by a little humility.

    CNN: Highlights from the world's press

  • It hardly mattered how many people sneaked in: The Patriots never sold out Foxboro (then called Sullivan Stadium) and lost hundreds of games on the field and millions of dollars off of it.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • On Mondays, Aron never gave any sign that he had formed a connection with either of them, never spoke to them before or after class, hardly even looked at them.

    NEWYORKER: Luda and Milena

  • She said that she was never tempted to try drugs for the role but is hardly self-denying (after the show, she smokes cigarettes and grabs drinks).

    WSJ: Tracie Bennett as Judy Garland, Capturing the Essence of a Legend | Creating

  • Intactivists counter that this hardly justifies what they call the amputation of a body part from infants who might never be at risk of HIV.

    ECONOMIST: Banning circumcision

  • Senator Kennedy is right that the intelligence community never characterized the threat as "imminent, " but that's hardly big news unless you think the president did.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Never used for transport or war, unlike canoes and sailboats, they have hardly changed over the centuries.

    BBC: Hong Kong: The birthplace of modern dragons

  • They say Russia never used gas as a political weapon even during the Cold War, so it's hardly likely to do so now.

    BBC: Europe diary: The gas man

  • Granted, Pakistan were hardly at the top of their game at The Oval, missing four chances in a poor fielding performance and then never threatening England's target right from the off, but the England players and supporters would have taken a victory at any cost, and the eventual 48-run margin represents quite a spanking in Twenty20.

    BBC: Jonathan Agnew column

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