"She's a big-government person and she's out of touch because she's never really bothered to get down on the ground and work the district," he said the other day.
None of them bothered to touch Harrison while he was on the ground to ensure that the play was over.
The unfortunate small-i irony of this collection of experimental metafiction is that Yu, a Los Angeles writer, seems to have big ideas about conspicuous consumption and emotional longing, but he rarely bothers to sculpture grounded stories from such raw, vague abstractions.
The editorial links to their report, but if the editors bothered to dig a little deeper they would have uncovered grounds for suspicion.
None of the putatively untainted ones have so far bothered to support their asserted position with any legal precedent or grounds.
Mr Bradley barely bothered to respond when Mr Gore attacked his plans for health-care reform on the ground that they would eat up the whole budget surplus.
The word "congenial" is beaten into the ground, repeatedly deployed to describe any fellow politician whom Clarke likes but can't be bothered to portray.
Nobody bothered to check.
Most never bothered to respond.
Only one bothered to answer.
