To carp on like this is to risk coming across as the sort of irredeemable character who recurs in James Murphy's lyrical vignettes ("But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses ... ..)... ..
And that his butler Cedric – a role Peter O'Toole's obituaries unfairly omitted while carping on endlessly about Lawrence Of Arabia – has a dirty secret.
For instance, he said, characteristically carping on a minute detail, the two men had celebrated their agreement with pear brandy, and not with plum brandy as the general said.
Other contestants range from an ex-convict to an unhappy sales executive, but "lacking any narrative rhythm, the film flops around like a carp on the kitchen floor" (A. O. Scott).
The carp also has its devotees in the United States, where the largest rod and reel common carp on record is a 57-pound-13-ounce 57-pound-13-ounce 57-pound-13-ounce 57-pound-13-ounce
Seventeen-year-old Abigail Backus reeled in a mighty 27.6-pound carp on Friday and was given a choice: Kiss the fish, or kiss the Englishman who helped her bring it to shore.
Lacking any narrative rhythm, the film flops around like a carp on the kitchen floor, jumping from scene to scene, from musical number to emotional confrontation, before you can figure out what's going on.
CARPs performed on an elective admission (elective CARPs) were distinguished from emergency CARPs, defined as a CARP performed during a non-elective (emergency) cardiovascular admission.
Every 80 years or so these economic cataclysms occur, vindicating the Left who carp on the sidelines during soaring markets, waiting for a collapse since wealth and power are never voluntarily given up.
