Local politics and Mexico's political culture, in which municipal planning for projects seldom stretches from one three-year administration to the next, compound the problem.
Some of her usual tricks are in play here — capricious titles, disorienting syntax, implications of tremendous offstage action — in stories that are as short as two sentences and seldom stretch to three pages.
And while selling to China did present some of the challenges I anticipated, it brought many others that blindsided me, requiring a severe adjustment of my cultural paradigms and a flexibility of the mind that had seldom been stretched that far!
The rest of Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott's campy all-male spoof of 1950s sci-fi B-movies is entertaining, if seldom uproarious and occasionally stretched, even at a slender 80 minutes.
He seeks untrainable areas.' Seldom do footballers stretch themselves in such an intense way to be the best.
Given the dignity and pathos of these two performances, it's surprising how seldom he took roles that stretched him.
Twelve years ago, I was described in this magazine as having "a languid, professorial air... his arms stiffly by his side; his eyes seem stretched open, for he seldom blinks, and [he] speaks slowly, deliberately, quietly [with] parsimonious gestures".
Interactions through the major groove are seldom encountered, but might be present when DNA is stretched.
To describe "And Now a Word From Our Sponsor" as a one-joke skit stretched well beyond the breaking point isn't entirely fair, because when used ingeniously, which is very seldom, the joke lands.
This is true of Glenn Ligon's retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, a tight but ample show that refers back to America's slave-holding past and forward to the Obama present but focuses on the late 1980s and 1990s, a too-seldom-revisited stretch of recent art.
