Phrases like these are easily understood, although it is hardly possible to get their full effect without a knowledge of their origin.
It is hardly possible, for instance, for any intelligent person to fail to feel the cumulative passion of "King Lear.
It is hardly possible to arrive at any clear understanding of what is meant by literature as an art, without some conception of what constitutes art in general.
Much good in such cases may be done by a friend, older, indeed, than the child who is to receive enlightenment; and yet not so much older as to make the child feel that a mutual understanding is hardly possible.
Here it ishardly possible to separate the congenital characters from the effects of environment.
So jealous are the different sects and denominations of each other, that it would be hardly possible to write or compile a religious school-book with which all would be satisfied.
If they do not lay too much stress on mental culture, which, indeed, is hardly possible, they lay by far too little upon that which is moral and religious.
Of the whole number received, there was not one who was in a situation where any great improvement in his condition was probable, or hardly possible; they were growing worse in habits, and more confirmed in their idiocy.
In short, it is hardly possible to conceive any case more awfully distressing than our situation would have been, or one more disastrous to the important undertaking in which we were engaged.
In such states of the weather, accompanied by rain, it is hardly possible to prevent a single wall from admitting water.
It ishardly possible to explode it by a blow with iron upon lead; and impossible by striking it with iron upon wood.
It would be hardly possible to infer the melting point of an alloy from that of each of its constituent metals; but, in general, the fusibility is increased by mutual affinity in their state of combination.
If an author has carefully considered the Unity of his composition, if he has massed it properly in parts and as a whole, if he has looked well to its Coherence,--it is hardly possible that he should fail of being readily understood.
This is an affair of culture in its broadest sense, and it is hardly possible to separate here the question of literary excellence from that of general development.
It is hardly possible to conceive of a discussion which will not to a greater or less degree touch the passions of those addressed.
It is possible to imagine a more ideally perfect missionary; but it is hardly possible to imagine a more ideally perfect traveller.
There being no records of initial humanity, it is hardly possible for us to know certainly what the earliest men's feeling was toward the animate and inanimate forces around them.
Whether the clan or the phratry preceded in time it is hardly possible to determine--clans may have united to form a larger group, or an original group may have been divided into clans.
At what stage this belief arose it is hardly possible to say; there are peoples among whom it seems not to exist;[710] but it is found over a great part of the world, and was doubtless an outcome of popular observation.
It is hardly possible to say what its original distribution was, and whether or not there was a single center of distribution.
It is hardly possible to limit our conception of the means by which thought will be communicated in the next century, but we may see just where the change will probably come.
This was the expression of the cook, who threw him into the berth--it is hardly possible to say what precise meaning was intended by the phrase.
It was, indeed, hardly possible for us to be in a more pitiable condition.
It is hardly possible for me to recall to the reader who is not a practical geologist, the facts leading the mind feebly to comprehend the lapse of time.
I use this expression, though I am aware that it is hardly possible to define clearly what is meant by organisation being higher or lower.
It is hardly possible to doubt that the easy victories of 1871 marked the point at which the German spirit took the wrong turning, and rendered her statesmen incapable of seeing the forces which were massing for her destruction.
It is hardly possible to open a current newspaper without the eye lighting on some fresh vindication of the once despised and rejected doctrine of Norman Angellism.
In a general survey it is hardly possible to follow the order of strict chronology until comparatively modern times.
Now it ishardly possible to imagine better hypnotic subjects than the pupils of an Indian religious teacher.
The small bony processes which project from the spine of a fish have some similitude to a saw; but it would be hardly possible to saw through with them small pieces of wood.
It is extremely probable that they were invented in the middle of the fourth century: but it is hardly possible to find any certain proof; for we have reason to believe that the ancient covering was gradually transformed into a saddle.
In the warm afternoon light, when the shadows fall, it is hardly possible to conceive a finer picture of a crumbling but still formidable mountain fortress.
It is hardly possible to doubt you are really looking at an antique ruin.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hardly possible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
