The main technical development in aircraft carrier design during World War II was the hydraulic catapult, but this was barely powerful enough to launch the heavier jet aircraft coming into service after 1945.
The screens were too heavy, too low-resolution and too slow to refresh, giving users thumping headaches and nausea, while the computers behind them were barely powerful enough to render conventional 3D graphics, let alone do it for two screens at once.
On the negative side, the disagreeable Mitsubishi 3-liter engine is barely more powerful than the V-6 in the Ford Taurus SHO — the 1989 Ford Taurus SHO.
The flyweight car with plastic body panels and an engine barely more powerful than a garden tractor was best known for its dull tones and cramped, bumpy ride.
Though this aspect of the novel suffers from the sort of contrivance that's hobbled some of Mr. Chabon's early work, the reader barely notices, so powerful is the gravitational pull of his central story.
Porter barely references the powerful evidence that major companies in the for-profit college sector are indeed hurting many of their students -- veterans, single mothers, and others struggling to get ahead -- with a toxic mix of high prices and weak programs.
It was this powerful, barely-repressible feeling bubbling up from deep within me.
Europe's most powerful politician barely clothed – that's not Merkel's idea of privacy.
"NEVER in the history of Cuba have we had a case like this," President Raúl Castro lamented after two powerful hurricanes, barely a week apart, struck the island, severely damaging crops and leaving some 200,000 homeless.
Set in China during the 1960's and early 70's, when families were decimated and scattered by political claustrophobia and paranoia, this novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Soul Mountain" is "a powerful narrative, barely fictional, of the Cultural Revolution's insidious, corrosive terror," Barbara Crossette wrote here in 2002.
It's a pity, perhaps, that Palacio didn't give voice to Auggie's worst tormenter, the stuck-up bully Julian Albans, but there are terrific contributions from Jack, who has problems becoming Auggie's best friend; Via, Auggie's older sister, struggling with her first year of high school; and Miranda, Via's ex-best friend, who has powerful but barely understood feelings for Auggie.
