Theodore Dalrymple

Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

English Writer

Nick Harkaway

My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.

English Novelist

Peter Bergen

The fact is, working stiffs with few opportunities and scant education are generally too busy getting by to engage in revolutionary projects to remake society. And history, in fact, shows us that terrorism is generally a bourgeois endeavor.

American Journalist

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

American Writer

Felix Dennis

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

British Publisher

Srikumar Rao

Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.

Indian Educator

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.

American Explorer

Robert Christgau

The idea is every time I go to a show, that night or the next morning I write it down in the gig log. Sometimes they're very scant, sometimes they're very long.

Galileo Galilei

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Italian Scientist

Quentin Crisp

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

Usually implies a failure to meet expectations or a deficiency.

Negative Connotation

Often used in formal or technical contexts to indicate a shortcoming.

Context Specific

Suggests a quantity so small it's barely sufficient.

Quantitative Nuance

Indicates something just barely achieves a stated condition.

Describes Narrow Margin

Use to suggest an outcome was only just realized, without excess.

Signifies Minimal Achievement

Can convey a sense of urgency or a close call in situational contexts.

Imparts Urgency

Conveys the idea that not enough effort or resources were allocated.

Implies Negligence

Use as a verb can imply criticism or suggest that something was done poorly.

Potential Criticism

Suggests deliberate conservation, often with the connotation of stinginess.

Economy of Use

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 James meant this as a challenge, not an indictment of scant brain usage. But the misunderstanding stuck. Also, scientists couldn't figure out for a long time the purpose of our massive frontal lobes or broad areas of the parietal lobe. Damage didn't cause motor or sensory deficits,

What percentage of your...

 The stars in those galaxies probably don't have planets around them. There's scant chance of life there -- that's because there's been no time for the nuclear fusion in stars to make silicon and carbon and iron, the building blocks of planets and of life.

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 days a scant eleven years later there was a railroad here in Chama New Mexico now the rest of the world has moved on but here as far as the eye can see in any direction it is the authentic West and you are immersed with people who are

Lessons Learned From...

 heavier than the immediate peril every waking hour we have spent in the Grand Canyon has been one of toil we have watched with deep solicitude the steady disappearance of our scant supply of rations and from

John Wesley Powell: From...

 a dose or the people of the arrow and the people of the arrow this is a group that is so far removed from the outside world that they have scant knowledge of

The Unconquered:...

 they begin the stalk like seasoned hunters using the scant cover to conceal themselves and they have to be

Best of African Animals...

 They begin the stalk like seasoned hunters, using the scant cover to conceal themselves.

Young Lions Attack Oryx...

 stalk like seasoned hunters using the scant cover to conceal themselves and

Scant

Limited; not enough or just barely enough.

Often appears as...

Barely; hardly; not quite.

Often appears as...

To provide insufficiently; to skimp.

Often appears as...

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