Sentence examples for hardly account from inspiring English sources

First-hand information, however, can hardly account for the poem's sudden success.

Of course, these unfashionable details hardly account for Ms. Stallings's obscurity.

Since 1970, when the first installment was published, the series has gathered a fervent and loyal following that mere topicality could hardly account for.

Animals do adapt to their environments, Ms. Yancey tells her students, but evolution alone can hardly account for the appearance of wholly different life forms.

But as E and MA Radford wrote in their 1949 Encyclopædia of Superstitions: "This would hardly account for the dislike of the Romans and Greeks for the number 13".

Compared with CCP, the TSP can hardly account for the violating risk of uncertain system constraints.

(He has had minor confrontations with Arabs, but Camus makes it plain that it hardly accounts for this act).

Subsequently the couple were estranged for some months, but this tragedy hardly accounts for the seven years it took Puccini to complete La Fanciulla.

True, he does kill off our hero in his one go, but since that was reversed a few years later – oh, Sherlock, we knew you were kidding – it hardly accounts for his fame.

In this remarkably optimistic scenario, Russia would make good on its unexpected offer to prod its ally, Mr Assad, to hand over all his stocks of chemical weapons to international control: a process helped along by a credible threat of American air strikes.But such starry-eyed optimism hardly accounts for Mr Obama's ceding of the cat seat.

This is apt enough for Shostakovich's final pieces or Stravinsky's "Requiem Canticles," but it hardly accounts for the austere bliss of Handel's "Theodora," the radiance of Strauss's "Four Last Songs," the sonic waterfalls of Messiaen's "St.