"Oh, uh, I liked it a lot," Stephenson replied, barely looking up.
The present Irish troubles began barely three decades ago, he replied, while "your conflict is 3,000 years old".
Asked why Mr. Wong had chosen to attack them, Mr. Ho, on the verge of weeping, his voice barely a whisper, replied, simply: "Nobody know".
Barely pausing, Mr Trump replied, "Only Rosie O'Donnell", referencing the TV comedian and host.
Asked when he was heading to Iowa, he paused for barely a beat and replied, "Next week".
And when I made the no-doubt fatuous observation that life was different now without his wife, he replied with barely disguised bitterness, "That is your greatest understatement of the morning".
Mr. Hyde, barely controlling his anger, replied that the committee was not engaged in a wild goose chase and was not confined to the referral from Kenneth W. Starr, the independent counsel.
A deaf woman named Anna, wearing only a housecoat, wandered into the courtyard during one of the bombing raids and Ms. Oibayeva scolded her, saying, "Couldn't you see the bombing?" But the woman replied: "I barely noticed it.
At a subsequent hearing in magistrate's court, he replied with barely comprehensible grunts to three questions establishing his identity as a convicted participant in the 1963 robbery of an overnight Glasgow-to-London mail train.
With barely concealed incredulity he replied that he wouldn't dream of it.
