Sentence examples for scarcely off from inspiring English sources

But the women are scarcely off the Jersey Turnpike before Ms. Gillet's play begins to hit some potholes.

Much rests on the young shoulders of Ruby Bentall who, as the 12-year old Alice, is scarcely off the stage.

Scarcely off the stage before Gerry Mulgrew takes over as his mellower, mature self, he never misses a beat, pushing the production forwards with faultless support from the large cast.

In Peter Morgan's The Audience, his play about the Queen's interactions with successive prime ministers, Helen Mirren was scarcely off-stage and her transformations were the heart of the action.

But these have scarcely got off the ground.

Trinidad, his country, was scarcely better off, a marginal community in a society (the Caribbean) whose place in English life was not even acknowledged.

With a wife, four children and a mother suffering from Alzheimer's, he was scarcely better off in the new three-bedroom apartment but, crucially, it was only two streets away from the wealthy properties of Avenue des Braves.

We found that the Papuans were being herded into model villages, while the migrants sent to displace them from their lands were scarcely better off, dumped far from home without food, schools or hospitals, and forbidden to return.

Though she was scarcely above showing off her brilliant technique, her musical embellishments had to stand the test of dramatic expressivity.

But they could scarcely have got off to a worse start.

Swept Stateside on a wave of genuine hope amid the despair back home, Colombia's World Cup campaign could scarcely have got off to a more inauspicious start.