Nobody except the Paulsens had suspected him of harboring such reserves of discontent, but Walter was no less enthusiastic about nature than he was about culture, and the only outward change in his life was his new scarcity at home on weekends.
Despite his cigars' scarcity, Mr. Magier, 48, decided to sell them at relatively affordable prices, in the same range as other premium cigars.
His problem is scarcity of more tangible investment.
Moreover, the colonel is accustomed to operating under conditions of scarcity; his regime survived UN sanctions in the 1990s.
Nick operates in a world without scarcity: his magical elves can make anything he needs, in whatever quantity, provided only that you deserve it.
If the size and breadth of Everett's collection makes him the Spielberg of poster collecting, Cleveland, with his perfectionist focus on scarcity and quality, is its Kubrick many of his 25,000 posters are one- of-a-kind.
Yes, one House Republican, Mr. Ryan, received his party's nomination for vice president on Tuesday, but the scarcity of his colleagues here may reflect the unease within the party for an institution whose popularity is near rock bottom.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, his government's finances a shambles and his constituents angry about scarcity caused by the massive contraband rackets, announced in August that he was cracking down.
In particular, his use of the passivity and scarcity of matter in his argument for the existence of God was noted by his contemporaries internationally.
