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To be sure, one is no longer shocked at hearing hell and damn on radio or television or even reading it in the press, although both were taboo a scant twenty years ago.
In Roman times a long colonnaded stoa and promenade linked the two theaters, but only scant remains can be seen today.
A Washington Post book critic and Exley's literary executor, Yardley is said to use scant evidence--such as numerous late-night phone calls from Exley from 1975 to 1992--to draw conclusions about Exley's self-absorption and ambiguous sexuality.
Eager to capitalize, the country poured its soul into mass tourism, which triggered a rash of indiscriminate building on the southern and eastern coastlines, with scant regard for tradition or aesthetics.
Queen Gertrude, about her son: "He is fat and scant of breath."