bearably

No matter what she is doing one and a half eyes on the television makes the job, the day and life pass bearably on.

Sergei, taught by experience, looked away until it had flattened into something a little more bearably two-dimensional.

He was still tired, but bearably so.

Left alone, we could bearably get by."

A critic has said: "At best, his works reflect the lightness of being, joyfully, bearably so".

"No doubt there'll be harsh words if you challenge Sloan, but things will settle down in the end-perhaps not comfortably, but at least bearably.

Ms. James's aesthetic is bearably New Age-ish, and here, the ritual element is quietly compelling.

In a Preface to the 1937 edition Roth was only able to hope for " conditions for Jews getting steadily and bearably worse.

The auditorium itself is attractive and comfortable, seats 900 and has air-conditioning that is bearably quiet, or would be if the sounds coming from the stage had more resonance.

True, the roads were flat, the weather was bearably hot and the pack was chasing an early three-man breakaway that was caught two and a half miles before the finish.

Covent Garden was likelier ground and there, where Wellington Street charged towards Waterloo Bridge, was the bearably fashionable, subterranean, undemanding Orso's.

I didn't even want to think about what she'd stored in the attic: that would be dealt with later, in the fall, when the attic was bearably cool and I'd time to think.

Hofmann, whose remarkable translations of Roth have helped resurrect this writer in Britain and the United States, adds: "One senses that all Roth is able to hope for - and this is simultaneously a cause of his greatest despair - is conditions for the Jews getting steadily and bearably worse.