The pace is that of a cocaine binge, and the voice moves from big-hearted to heartless to maudlin with the frank dispatch of a waitress dealing with a demanding dinner crowd.
Then came Augie March's Chicago, hopping and pulsing with human souls of every possible variety, all of them gesticulating and shouting, demanding dinner and love and money, expounding their philosophy of life, urging its universal adoption, and generally acting as though industrial capitalism had been invented for their own personal use.
Gourmet, on-demand dinner delivery service Sprig today expanded to start serving lunch, just as we wrote it would a few days ago.
The group demanded Christmas dinner be provided to Pfc.
Although domestic demand for dinner services fell away, they sold their Merchant Ivory version of English history abroad, all cruet sets and statuettes in crinolines.
They have a tendency for hello-trees-hello-sky whimsy that could provoke the members of Belle and Sebastian to demand their dinner money with menaces and flush their heads down the lavatory.
Chase is in demand at dinner parties not only because of his days as a child actor but also because of a more recent claim to celebrity — his fiancée, the astronaut Janice Trumbull, is stranded on the International Space Station, from which she sends him long love letters that are excerpted in the war-free Times.
Dinner demands a hearty plate of pasta.
This new market, she believed, demanded drinks with dinner.
The dinner demanded beer, and lots of it.
