Both sought to chill our blood, but since they were entirely tepid moviegoing experiences they scarcely succeeded in bringing it down to room temperature.
There are two high and two low tides in a day, but the succeeding floods may be so unequal that the second scarcely rises to mean sea level, or it may be the ebb tides that are of extreme inequality.
But we scarcely learn how Washington succeeded in unifying delegates at the Constitutional Convention or what the defining achievements were in his presidency (aside from matters of title and protocol).
Seven years ago Covent Garden dared to stage a highly stylised Aida by the avant-garde American director Robert Wilson, which was under-rehearsed and, given its disappearance without a revival, scarcely allowed a chance to succeed.
Roughly two months into this important yet scarcely documented battle, Syria's antigovernment fighters have succeeded in laying siege to the heavily fortified Abu ad Duhur air base.
There is scarcely a glance at real human beings who succeed or fail in marriage, and for whose spiritual nourishment, presumably, the church orders its sacramental life.
Andropov was chosen by the Communist Party Central Committee to succeed Brezhnev as general secretary on November 12, scarcely two days after Brezhnev's death.
To most of America, Mr. Raoul is scarcely known despite the fact that in 2004 he succeeded Barack Obama in the Illinois Senate.
In 2012, barely noticed by the public and scarcely reported in the media, Mario Monti's government, which succeeded Mr Berlusconi's, abolished the offence for which the former prime minister had been indicted.
It was scarcely to be expected, however, that he would one day succeed to the throne of France, since Catherine de Médicis had already borne three sons to the reigning king, Henry II, and would soon bear him a fourth.
Lazio has had to succeed on his own, and because his native talents are scarcely outsize, it is his ambition that has seen him through.
