Sony managed to book it into 106 venues, but marketing support looked scant – a realistic decision given the film's recent failure at the US box office.
If there is some consolation for Scolari it will come from the manner in which Brazil were at least able to get a result without Neymar at his best but it looked scant as the news sank in.
And if the Democrats cannot agree among themselves on how to shrink the deficit, the hope of agreement across party lines looks scanter still.One day before the state-of-the-union message, the Senate failed to approve a proposal to create a bipartisan commission to consider ways to increase taxes and reduce spending.
Even so, 29th looks like scant acknowledgement of the fact that, by linking many different charities who collect, repair and sell unwanted items, and connecting them to a single disposal Hotline number (and website), the LRN has shown for the first time how reuse can create jobs (44 so far in the LRN), reduce waste, and really, seriously work.
The 32-year-old Brooklyn rapper has spent a decade carving out a reputation as a peerless wordsmith, and while his on-record repertoire looks somewhat scant - Eardrum, only his third bona fide solo album, is due out in September - this three-night London residency feels like a coronation.
Details on what this will look like are scant in the press release, so I'm left guessing what this is going to mean.
I lack good looks, I have scant charm, and have little or no intelligence.
When supposedly safe savings vehicles, such as bank deposits, look shaky and offer scant returns, gold has greater appeal as an alternative store of wealth.
Analysts said a technical default looked likely given the scant progress on any kind of agreement in recent weeks, but there were reassurances that it would have few repercussions for global markets.
But, if you do have a taste for it, you can spice up the dish with a pinch of ass, a small handful of pussy, a smear of telling a candidate who has spent forty years in public service that she looks tired, or a scant cup of sexual-assault accusers paraded around as human shields on live TV.
