It is when he loses that job that he finally runs out of tenacity, and his life, barely manageable up to then, ceases being even that.
In the morning rush, this bit of Eighth Avenue is barely manageable on foot.
Here was the turn, a two-track that was barely manageable in an ordinary sedan and David couldn't imagine how it was negotiated in winter or spring, when the notorious local gumbo turned to mud.
But because we wasted those critical decades, we're now committed to far more warming than we needed to be — as one scientist after another has shown recently, our momentum has carried to us the point where stopping warming at even the disastrous 2C level may at this point be barely manageable if it's manageable at all.
The processes have grown so complex as to be barely manageable.
New cable-telephony services have the potential to increase the rate of loss from a barely manageable 5-6% of lines a year to 15% or more, says Ford Cavallari of Adventis, a consultancy.
Who knew, for instance, that a barely manageable husband whom my mother used to call "the married bachelor" would be so driven to seek a second mate.
She called the situation "barely manageable" and called for the UK border to be moved back to Britain.
You're in.' Doherty remembered the run-up to the last Live Aid he organised with Geldof; the sleepless nights; the barely manageable logistics; the almost incomprehensible scale.
The modern inbox is an unending, barely manageable clog of debris.
As consulting psychologists to a NICU, we often see new moms and dads who, after their premature baby is born, are suddenly confronted with barely manageable uncertainty.
