At first glance, these pictures bear scant relation to Penn's more acceptable obsessions.
Often based on secondary accounts and myths that cannot be attested, these divergent views usually bear scant relation to what we find in the limited primary sources on Chinggis Khan that have survived to this day.
The vocal tracks, Full Moon and Crying Over You, bear scant relation to contemporary house, Heard's soothing voice and the gently probing beats distancing both songs from the demands of the dancefloor.
Now, we don't want to typecast it as torpid, and maybe that city's generic/general rhythm has quickened in recent times from the indolent pulse of trip-hop, but this bears scant relation to anything we've ever heard coming out of St Paul's or environs.
Once you admit that the Jane Austen depicted onscreen bears scant relation to any person named Jane Austen, living or dead, the film fulfills its purpose.
You should take the time to read the whole thing, but the nub is this: there is legitimate criticism of Israeli government policy, and then there is the international anti-Zionist movement, and the two bear scant relation to one another.
And on a less squirm-inducing but arguably more fraudulent front, there are perennial media exposés about advertised calorie counts that bear scant relation to actual calorie counts, a phenomenon so extensively chronicled and widely suspected that a deli just blocks from me mounts an adverbial defense against customer skepticism.
In the absence of that once-in-a-generation sense of community, you are reminded how the calculated geometries of the park bear scant relation in atmosphere or aesthetic to the boroughs — Stratford, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Bethnal Green, Waltham Forest, among which they find themselves.
The setting at Racquet Club of the South, primarily a tennis training facility, bore scant resemblance to Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows.
