If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted. " As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question.
Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth.
Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach. For all our artificial pigments are, even when seen under the same circumstances, dead and lightless beside her living color; nature exhibits her hues under an intensity of sunlight which trebles their brilliancy.
Restoring prayer. . . will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.
Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented.
Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed.
I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives. . . . I am innocent of all these charges. . . . What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers.
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.
prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.
I'm scarcely an enfant!
As for us, we were scarcely four hundred strong, and we well remembered the word and warning. . . we had received to beware of entering the city of Mexico, since they would kill us as soon as they had us inside.