"Jonathan," she wrote in 2005, "whom I still barely knew, proved to be a wonderful confidant.
This promise proves barely half true.
Yet Suri is also testing the modern audience's willingness to suspend disbelief, and the material he's working with here – unfolding the happenstance-heavy mystery of a woman at the mercy of the men around her – proves barely fit for this purpose, or any other.
Amid this barely orchestrated madness, Anna proves wise beyond her years, her station and her time; she learns to disdain superstition, to doubt religion, even to long for a scientific point of view.
Back then, very few people were talking about Bernie Sanders truly battling Clinton, but I was, and to troll me on social media because Clinton barely scored "wins" only proves my overall point.
Even when they could barely stand, they proved capable of blasting aces past each other.
Its combination of Cumberland sausage, mushrooms and brown sauce proving barely good enough to throw at the royals in republican protest, let alone a celebratory feast.
The other car's door was dented, but the Taurus had barely a scratch, proving the wisdom of her parents' choice.
His government proved barely able to cope with a succession of postwar crises involving food shortages, labour unrest, native resistance to French colonialism in Indochina, and squabbles between the Communists and other coalition members.
Although ultimately his comment proved barely a contender for the title of Most Hyperbolic Statement of the Night, Lineker may have been exaggerating slightly – he survived to complete the two-hour broadcast with a discreet plaster on his thumb.
