LONDON ― A quintessential English rain shower fell on the crowd, but the hundreds of residents and visitors who had gathered Monday evening at a park outside City Hall to mourn the city's most recent terror attack were unflinching.
Rooney did not help matters by reacting to the boos the English fans showered upon the players.
I really don't want to sound like a white guilt-riddled UCL professor desperately trying to seem relevant on Newsnight, but if there's a better word to come out of the English language than "shower" and its affiliates in the last ten years, I haven't heard it.
Harman International's factory in Suzhou, China, provides air-conditioning, showers, English tuition and monthly parties at which workers can mingle with managers.
Flowers were again to the fore at Burberry Prorsum, where the English rose — its petals showering the finale — were in the mind of the designer.
Make it "only two states … that set the age …" Flowers were again to the fore at Burberry Prorsum, where the English rose — its petals showering the finale — were in the mind of the designer.
"Sir Gerald ...having enthusiastically showered the English stage with second-rate drama for many years, now rises up with incredible violence and has a nice slap all round at the earnest and perspiring dramatists".
The American chains, with their cookie-cutter rooms, standard showers and English speakers, offer something of peace of mind in this sense — a familiar place to return to after the culture shock that can set in when exploring a foreign city.
And no wonder, since the only previous translation of the novel into English, by CK Scott Moncrieff, showered Proust's text in "cascades of Edwardian purple prose", some but not all of them staunched by Terence Kilmartin and DJ Enright in the "fully revised" version now reissued by Vintage to compete with these volumes.
