Owen Jones's first book, "Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class," begins more like a Noël Coward play or a late-model Ian McEwan novel than like a rumbling social polemic.
With its invocations of the Book of Job and breathy incantations about the "way of nature and the way of grace", Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or-winning The Tree of Life begins more like a prayer than a movie.
But she plans to begin more direct experiments, like putting a tracer on part of a lichen to watch how it moves.
In short, France began looking more like America, and America more like France.
"The government began thinking more like a private equity firm," said one banker involved in the process.
A few years ago, scientists found that when they added extra copies of the AVPR1a gene to the brains of promiscuous meadow voles, the animals began acting more like monogamous prairie voles, spending more time with partners and grooming offspring.
Your rolling snow hills began looking more like obstacles to me than places to settle down and build a fort.
As buyers become more cautious, contracts may begin looking more like they did before the housing boom of the last 15 years.
"I had seven names in all: imbecile, donkey, flax-head, dope, glump, ninny and fool," Gimpel begins, sounding more like Augie March than someone from the old country.
First, the Pentagon must begin acting more like a business, using proven technology when possible, rather than inventing technologies and hoping they will work, Mr. Rodrigues said.
