Sentences with phrase «scant interest in»

Rather it is that, in their headlong rush into neo-liberal politics, New Labour governments showed scant interest in its working class constituency.

But what I detect in it is the work of someone who was never all that interested in investigating the arguments on either side of the same - sex marriage debate; whose scant interest in it has now been fully exhausted, both intellectually and morally; and whose present conclusions hover in mid-air without anything to support them other than a wistful regret that he has lost a hoedown partner in a gay man who has come fairly unglued over the issue.

Its tendrils reached so deep that the French showed scant interest in the budding Internet.

Not exact matches

Reihan, with his many interests and scant actual opinions, is like a child, good at expressing curiosity but bad at inspiring it in others.

Now the obvious interpretation of this passage would stress both Othello's interest in reassuring his employers that he will in no way «scant» their «great business» and his modesty in wishing to deflect any general speculation about the sexual ardor of the newlyweds.

Reportedly, there is scant spectator interest in the coming tournament whereas, in the past, it was said that football made the most money of any Olympic event, including its centrepiece, the athletics.

There's scant wiggle room even for something that the industry calls «counter-programming,» which is a film released to a market to attract moviegoers who aren't interested in football or Star Wars or whatever other big pop - culture thing is happening.

Running a scant ninety - two minutes, at least sixty of them consist of people frantically yelling at one another in the hopes the profanity — largely in front of a toddler, who's always finding and playing with a dildo as the film's running joke — keeps the viewer's interest.

Although interest in extended periods beyond the traditional 50 - minute period has existed since 1963, quantitative studies on the effects of longer class periods are still relatively scant.

The Google Nexus S isn't the best multimedia device for example, video formats supported at core level are rather scant and it has no interest in any content you might have on a media server.

«No matter how big the install base is, there's no point in expecting higher sales if the install base isn't interested in the games» Pokemon Go... «They make more money waiting for the smart and open - minded multi-console gamers to pick up a console for their games, than they would waiting for a scant 500k (at best) to pick up a less - realistic - looking game on consoles where other third party games, like Battlefield, already have dibs on their wallets» What happens when Nintendo stops making consoles, where will you go?

It will be interesting to see how this first wearable from French firm performs in the real world, though, the hardware details are still scant.

Although a considerable amount of research on mindfulness has been conducted by relationship researchers interested in psychological or other health - related variables (Brown & Ryan, 2003; Brown et al., 2007; Evans et al., 2011; Kabat - Zinn, 1990, 1993, 1994), research regarding its tie to communication has remained scant (for an exception see Huston, Garland, & Farb, 2011; Jones & Hansen, 2014).