It's a sour view of humanity.
In Orwell's novel Coming Up for Air, the last book he published before the outbreak of war, his first-person protagonist, George Bowling, took a sour view of Left Book Club meetings.
A Sour View of Castro Ángel, a 36-year-old resident of Santiago, already embraces American culture and 70's rock, playing his Deep Purple tapes, jumping up to mimic an air-guitar version of "Smoke on the Water".
Pennsylvania Democrats had a sour view of the economy _ four in 10 said the country is in a serious recession and at least as many called it a moderate recession.
I'm not very interested, finally, in haphazard revelations, attenuated characters, stories where method or technique is all -- stories, in short, where nothing much happens, or where what does happen merely confirms one's sour view of a world gone out of control".
There's something of Rhys's ethnography in Jay's encounter with Werner, an anthropologist documenting disappearing Native American culture, although Maclean gives this story a sardonic twist that confirms Silas's sour view of human nature.
She is also a persuasive saleswoman in both French and English, a bonus given her own country's sour view of the EU and Britain's possible referendum on whether to leave.One supposed mark against Ms Lagarde is that, unlike the present commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and his two predecessors, she has never been elected.
Violet's kind of hyper-articulate spitefulness can be entertaining in the theatre, in the hands of an incisive actress like, say, Stockard Channing; the sour view of life, after all, has some truth to it and mirrors what we all feel at times.
Du Maurier's novels are notable for their sour view of humanity and the often macabre suspense plots, which led Alfred Hitchcock to film three adaptations of them.
Perhaps one day Theroux will delight us again with his deliciously sour view of the human comedy, but this book is not it.
That result tracks with Florida voters' sour view of the economy, with 56percentt saying it has worsened in the past year.
