The observer - Anna Chancellor is at her best as a cross between a stout-calved Lady Baden-Powell and an unravelling sexpot - is herself under observation: the Foreign Office placeman is delivered by James Fleet with a recognisable mix of insouciance and diffidence.
Though at times it reads as a cross between a history manual and private memoir, A Strangeness in My Mind is above all a love letter to the city in all its faded, messy, dusty glory.
While Bebo's Kate Modern is picking up awards for its eight-minute segments of poorly produced drivel, Surridge has been beavering away for a lot longer on something he describes as "a cross between Neighbours at its best and Brookside at its best".
Head VI drew a mixed reaction from art critics; John Russell, later Bacon's biographer, at the time dismissed it as a cross between "an alligator shorn of its jaws and an accountant in pince-nez who has come to a bad end".
My uttapam looks the same as it did at lunch: a cross between a pita and pancake.
A suicide bomber blew himself up today at a crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel, wounding two officers of the border police.
The logistical dance that ensued in the following weeks at times resembled a cross between a heart transplant and the mounting of a Broadway musical.
Mr. Perlman fiddles around with a time-delay camera and some lights on his Los Angeles roof at night, like a cross between Smith and Winston O. Link.
It's a scene of devastation and disintegration that stuns the mind, a major American city that still is home to 900,000 people but which looks at times like a cross between postwar Berlin and the ruin of an ancient civilization.
Chess has outsized meaning in Russia, and Kasparov at home was a cross between the greatest of athletes and a revered intellectual; with his status came celebrity, foreign investment accounts, summers on the Adriatic, an apartment along the Hudson River, friendships among Western politicians and businessmen, and the attentions of beautiful women.
