Elossa, for all her awareness of how the conscious mind might be manipulated and tricked, could hardly accept that.

Without a guarantee you cannot give, that of an unmolested mind, I can hardly accept.

But Beeton would hardly accept the death of his fiancée with such equanimity!

Especially in a matter that may reflect on him personally, we can hardly accept his word.

I could hardly accept what my eyes told me.

I just could hardly accept that anyone would love me.

And, as a Christian man, you can hardly accept fate.

But we can hardly accept lumbago, since he was able to stand erect in a moment.

That was something that Yeltsin, who started the war largely to prove his resolve, could hardly accept.

My mind could hardly accept the fact that I was going to be on my own.