If real people feel the same, then bountiful out-of-work benefits should be found in the same places as work-shy citizens.Yet a cross-country comparison of benefits and attitudes to work published on January 28th finds precisely the opposite pattern.
Even after this first proper excursion, the team felt able to claim membership in an exclusive club: they began to call the Mare aux Songes a Lagerstätte, the word that paleontologists use to refer to fossil sites that are exceptionally bountiful — either in concentration or in preservation of specimens — such as the Burgess Shale, in Canada, and Chengjiang, in China.
It changes from having felt only the touch of snow and rain to feeling the soft, warm, life of a bird, the sound of Joy's singing, to deep sorrow, to the energy of bountiful life as plants and animals make the mountain home.
(9+) 101 Poems for Children, edited by Carol Ann Duffy, illustrated by Emily Gravett (Macmillan, £9.99) Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy drew on her own childhood favourites and set some of the finest contemporary poems alongside them to create a bountiful collection that feels personal and passionate.
I should confess that even in the United States I do not feel comfortable in the role of Lady Bountiful.
This has a way of making what is actually bountiful feel slight, a late entry into the now tiresome competition to chart the cultural history of a single natural resource, be it saffron, nutmeg, salt or cod.
In my painting, the fruits and vegetables, especially the grapes are overflowing in the bowl and you really get the feel of a bountiful harvest.
When you look upon a bountiful table at this time of year, do you feel a connection to the squash, the fresh ginger, the apples, cornmeal, the sweet potatoes and walnuts?
Industry wideboys who cut their gold teeth in the bountiful 90s say their style has been cramped, they feel like Miquita Oliver getting a payday loan or Michael Barrymore forced to get pool stairs.
Most countries' exhibitions feel like a cross between a Waitrose advert and a travel agents' trade fair – immersive multimedia dioramas of bountiful produce and spectacular scenery, dotted with stalls selling craft trinkets and samples of cheese.
