Sentence examples for is barely given from inspiring English sources

Dad's hate is barely given time to fester and blossom before it is gruesomely punished by the gods of narrative coincidence.

Take the privatisation of the NHS: it is barely given any coverage by the BBC, and when it is, it is repeatedly presented on the government's terms.

The editing could have omitted a few of those throaty chuckles, while the photography never misses a chance to highlight the ironic dimple by her mouth: Mulligan is barely given a moment's break from charming us into falling for her.

According to news reports, residents were barely given time to collect their personal belongings.

Foy's total assurance as she navigated scene after scene in which she was barely given more than two or three lines was dazzling.

But in Belfast they were barely given a look-in, dominated in midfield and brutalised from set pieces by a side intimately acquainted with its method.

And, as Pulver says, "too much has been shoehorned in; so vivid are many of Lewis's tableaux that you are barely given time to linger before being whisked on to the next".

When you set out all you have is an address and the name of the bank, but I recall an elderly, sick man who was barely given time to put his trousers on".

For a man whose singular vision alienated many – a point illustrated by Kutcher's straight-talking, temper-riddled reading of Jobs – those closest to him are barely given time to voice their concerns, let along develop as characters.

Yet he's barely given anything to do in his few scenes (though he is part of one of the film's better visual gags).

Concepts like intellectual inquiry, the exchange of ideas within the community, searching for understanding of societal problems, or seeking solutions to these problems -- are barely given lip service, if any attention at all.