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But she also spoke to a more hopeful future: “How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause?
For weeks, she could hardly eat or speak.
A casual impulse, a fancy, never thought of until now, hardly thought of even now ... No, more than impulse or fancy, the girl knows what she's doing, the girl means something, the girl means to mean, because it occurs to her in that instant, that beautiful or not, bright yes or no, she's not who she is, she's not the person she is, and the reason, she suddenly knows, is that there's been so much premeditation where she is, so much plotting and planning, there's hardly a person where she is, or if there is, it's not her, or not wholly her, it's a self inhabited, lived in by her, and seemingly even as she thinks it she knows what's been missing: grace, not premeditation but grace, a kind of being in the world spontaneously, with grace.
And the girl remembers, in this infinite instant already now so many times divided, the sadness she felt once, hardly knowing she felt it, to merely inhabit herself.
60 nearly, yet these hardly tangible, hardly better than harlots, can still stir me.
Always that erotic murmur, I'm hardly myself if I'm not in a state of incipient desire.
Genes in the DNA of single-celled organisms put oxygen in the air, extracted CO2, put chalk and iron ore into the ground, hardly a cubic inch of the surface to some depth has remained unaffected by those genes.
And you see from this photo, you can hardly tell where there's building and where there's landscape.
Eames Demetrios: Now, this is a film that was hardly ever seen in the United States.
I look at the signs at the end, I can hardly see them.
And that they were so large, my body could hardly hold them!”
That can actually hardly be seen from the canal tours.
She was six, and she was at the back, drawing, and the teacher said this girl hardly ever paid attention, and in this drawing lesson, she did.
About the size of the Great Wall of China, this would hardly be an invisible structure.
You can see a modern road, hardly 50 years old.
Some slide past so quickly you'd hardly even notice them, like the nostalgia that will make you reach out to grab a familiar brand in the supermarket.
Now you all shop online, compare online, do everything online, and yet this revolution has hardly touched the surface of public services like education, or health care or policing, and you're going to see this change massively.
And the total of direct tort cost in this country is about two percent, which is twice as much as in other countries but, as taxes go, hardly crippling.
In the rich world, diseases that threatened millions of us just a generation ago no longer exist, hardly.
There may be a temptation to treat the biosphere holistically and the species that compose it as a great flux of entities hardly worth distinguishing one from the other.
But it's alive with life; it's hardly uninhabited.
It is, as anyone who works with data would tell you, hardly a statistically significant or demographically balanced sample.
We're hardly regulating them at all.
You failed the pop quiz, and you're hardly five minutes into the lecture.
And you probably hardly see a Thai man there, it's always women, women, women, women.
He wrote that, "It's hardly an exaggeration to say that the tip of the radical acts like the brain of one of the lower animals."
Personification and the imputing of intentional purpose is such a brilliantly successful way to model humans, it's hardly surprising the same modeling software often seizes control when we're trying to think about entities for which it's not appropriate, like Basil Fawlty with his car or like millions of deluded people, with the universe as a whole.
It hardly happens.
Generally speaking, recent Seagals films are hardly watchable.
The two womens' personalities are indistinguishable anyway so we don't know which of the two is better suited to be with Chris, and besides this, Barbara's permissiveness gives the impression that she hardly cares about the affair anyway.
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