Like his older brother, Aidan, whom we scarcely encounter, Neil is a man infected with the need for risk.
You might get hurt!" He finds that artists, critics, and writers he encounters "scarcely differ from the ones I know in New York" yet seem "weighed down by an incommunicable mental fatigue".
In China, Pierce encountered social disorder, poverty, and human misery of a magnitude he could scarcely register; but there was also a deep spiritual hunger amid that squalor, and the combined effect was strangely exhilarating.
Historian Ernest Cruikshank wrote in 1895 that "Scarcely had Mrs Secord concluded her narrative, when [Ducharme's] scouts came in... they had encountered the advance guard of the enemy".
Lustgarten, encountered two days later on the Boulevard, near the pork butcher, had taken off the sling and scarcely needed the cane.
Underplaying his role as a wheeler-dealer, Shane Taylor portrays David with a poker face that scarcely reflects the troubling questions that he encounters.
We first encounter him in an extended sequence with scarcely any dialogue as he travels by subway to the office, making eye contact with a pretty girl sitting opposite him.
Throughout the 1960s, and long beyond, one could scarcely turn on the television or open a newspaper without encountering her.
One can scarcely get through a magazine these days, for example, without encountering a report that $45,000 Patek Philippe wristwatches and $25 million Feadship yachts are available only on back order.
There is scarcely an academic in sight, as Mr. Wood draws on the residents and ruins he encounters to tell the stories.
