Carme Riera's novel Dins el darrer blau (1994; In the Last Blue), for instance, is an engrossing blend of voices religious and secular, learned and rustic, male and female, local and foreign, straight-talking and convoluted that describe the tension between Jews forced to convert (at least superficially) to Roman Catholicism and those who betray them to the Inquisition in 17th-century Majorca.
It was classic McCain foreign policy: straight from the gut, hawkish, full of headline-grabbing buzzwords.
Aircraft cabins are still sprayed before planes land from overseas and most foreign food goes straight into the airport bins.
It is shocking how willing conservatives have become to say that President Obama is not only wrong, but foreign — a trickster straight out of an African folktale.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin September 13, 2010 It is shocking how willing conservatives have become to say that President Obama is not only wrong, but foreign — a trickster straight out of an African folktale.
CHIP SHOTS JANICE MOODIE joined KATHRYN MARSHALL (who won in 1995 in Toledo) as the only Scots to win on the L.P.G.A Tour.... Moodie is the third straight foreign player to win the event.
At the last debate – the day after the November Paris terror attacks – he missed another opportunity to distinguish himself on straight foreign policy and highlighted instead the global security risks inherent in not taking action on climate change (an issue which, along with immigration and women's rights, was scarcely mentioned in tonight's debate).
Straight foreign bonds aren't carried in inventory by big retail firms like A.G. Edwards, and they won't get them for you.
"We cannot jeopardise the diplomats' health," explained the foreign minister, Ivan Antonovich, straight-faced.In this section The fastidious plumbers of Belarus The descent into another Balkan war Europe's presidential race: the form The pits Short of a miracle All roads lead to Tropoje Unwanted hero Left turn?
We have not heard anything recently about McCain's difficulty keeping the facts straight on foreign policy, his failure to understand or propose solutions for the country's economic ills, his many houses or the lobbyists running his campaign.
He has expelled USAID and demanded that western-funded Russian non-governmental organisations brand themselves as "foreign agents" - a move straight from the KGB's playbook.
