Mr Bush may have sounded a little like Teddy Roosevelt, but he showed scant sign of thinking like him.
Unlike the other governors who assumed the presidency in recent decades -- Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton -- Mr. Bush has devoted scant time to thinking about national security matters.
"Please, parents, turn the videos off now because that is just absolutely scandalous," intoned Ray Wilkins solemnly, considerately thinking of the children but paying scant regard to the ratings.
The scant number of Medal of Honor recipients among contemporary veterans is something I started thinking about several years ago while sitting in a crowded Fort Bragg gymnasium watching my husband and several other soldiers receive valor medals.
After thinking about the matter over the summer, Ms. Frank returned having made only scant changes to the song.
In a culture that devalues fiction, continues to graduate doctors with scant knowledge of medical history and produces one crude, reductive, philosophically naïve book on "the brain" after another, Oliver Sacks represents a different mode of thinking.
Truly reformist thinking about how to use the best NHS leaders, let alone private contenders, to raise standards and control costs has been scant or short-lived.Mr Cameron also has some unedifying reasons for passing the buck.
Thinking about it, I was horrified to find that much of the classic literature I've read has been boiled down in my mind to a few scant details.
And thinking, thinking, thinking".
The main place where the book discusses psychology is a chapter called "Thought Experiments on Thinking," a scant nine pages devoted to "thought experiments" that Kurzweil seems to have performed while sitting in his arm chair.
