More contrasting plays are hardly imaginable.

But in a news conference later, he acknowledged that a European Community with more than 20 members would be "hardly imaginable."

To many of the nobles in Krondor and the East, the war is a distant thing, hardly imaginable.

Such a policy, even if it could be proved right - hardly imaginable - could simply never be enforced.

But the country has a blessing hardly imaginable even a few years ago: freedom.

This is hardly imaginable considering the evident sense of the scene.

"I know someone in Moscow who ought to know," he said, "and he told me that Gorbachev would have been hardly imaginable without our Ostpolitik."

He was determined to develop his talent, which is how his life as an outlaw took an unusual, hardly imaginable turn.

As any biographer will need to note, it naturally helped that the profession enjoyed a visibility and cachet hardly imaginable today, only a generation or two later.

At the same time, it is hardly imaginable that this deal could have been concluded without the knowledge of the governments concerned.