When Reed dragged his torn hip muscle onto the court for Game 7 of the 1970 N.B.A. finals against the Lakers, Mr. Araton, then a high school senior, was in such a Knicks-obsessed frenzy he could scarcely tolerate human companionship.
It is difficult to imagine an incoming President who can scarcely tolerate a roast on "Saturday Night Live" appreciating such a concept, particularly if the information that a whistle-blower has divulged reflects negatively on him.
Blacks have long felt that they are barely tolerated as political equals, and have seen every reference to "Southern heritage" as scarcely veiled nostalgia for the days of white supremacy.
They choose Easter to decamp to a damp seaside resort to lecture each other.The annual teachers' conferences have become a byword for behaviour that would scarcely be tolerated in the classroom.
Who, in 1970, could have imagined that the China that had declared extramarital sex "counterrevolutionary" was led by a man who, scarcely able to tolerate the sight of Jiang Qing, his wife, had banished her from his presence and, according to Short, had replaced her in his bed "with as many young women as he wished"?
Others could scarcely abide them.
For years snowmobiling has been tolerated even though it violated the law, and its environmental impact had scarcely been monitored until recently.
Trump, who tolerated him at first, eventually turned on Bush in a tart and petty exchange which scarcely rose above the level of playground taunts about who was toughest.
Would that it were true that fibromyalgia patients "obsess over aches that other people simply tolerate"; in truth, they suffer from pain other people can scarcely imagine.
