While hardly praising Trump, whom he branded "crazy," Shariatmadari echoed Trump's proposal to scrap the nuclear accord -- on grounds that it excessively favors the United States.
When "Naked Boys Singing!" opened at the Actors Playhouse in Greenwich Village in July 1999, the reviews were affable enough but hardly high praise.
Even as United Nations officials today confirmed the release of 139 peacekeepers held hostage by rebels, thereby delivering the best piece of news since the beginning of a humiliating month in this corner of Africa, there was hardly ringing praise for the man who had made it all possible.
The vice presidency was contested in 2012 and in 2016, when Cordeiro ousted Edwards in an election in which the candidates could hardly stop praising each other.
Staunton hardly needs the praise.
Garnett is hardly warmed by praise these days.
That hardly sounds like praise — but suspense and originality are not the only literary virtues.
The numbers hardly justify such praise, so why does Dr. Ouchi consider Houston a success story?
The count of children leaving foster care, for example, includes 467 removed for reasons that are hardly worthy of praise -- like dying, running away and going to jail.
Admirers of Bishop's early work Moore, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell praised its cool objectivity, its calm impersonality, what Moore described as its "rational considering quality" (hardly the usual praise for poetry), its "deferences and vigilances".
