With a bit of tarting up, Bank of China and China Construction Bank will, it is hoped, make for an initial public offering (IPO) that investors (foreigners included) cannot refuse.
"The establishment approach to overcoming this problem is to do a little bit of tarting up, put on a nicer image, say you care a little bit more, talk more about poverty, and people will move over to your side and endorse your core agenda," Olsen said.
Understated elegance is the byword here, whether it's the delicate purée of butternut squash soup with bits of tart apple ($4), the beet salad with arugula and blue cheese ($8) or the light and piquant mushroom and leek tart ($10).
And Tom said, 'I'm worried that you think I'm being cheap, a bit of a tart, about laughs.' Actually, I wasn't thinking that at all.
I reckon people find it easier to have a dig at a player with long hair because they think you are a bit of a tart".
There is no reason for the maid in De La Cruz's House of Desires to be comically northern just because she is a bit of a tart.
Terry Semel, Yahoo!'s chief executive since 2001, has "done a notable job turning Yahoo! around" since the losses of the dotcom bust, says Jerry Michalski, a technology visionary in Berkeley, "but in the process he has turned it into, well, a bit of a tart".All things to all menIn this section Yahoo!'s personality crisis Imperial bubble?
What a tart bit of patroon snobisme.
A critic in The Washington Post called the book a guilty pleasure, saying, "Just when the slapstick tires you, there's a wonderful laugh, a smart one-liner, a tart bit of dialogue, a nice turn on your expectations".
Is this inscription a note to self, or is the novel being returned to whoever gifted it in the first place with a tart bit of lit crit thrown in for good measure?
