I know now that this hard-cornered Mary Poppins was not some careless slip on Shepard's part – the book preceded the film by 30 years and, as far as Travers was concerned, it was Walt Disney who got it wrong when he added spoonfuls of sugar, not to mention some larky cartoon penguins, to her really rather dark text.
Also, as much as I love the rectangular design of the phone, I will say the hard-cornered device can get a bit uncomfortable to hold during lengthy browsing sessions.
As one attendee notes: "Unlike a cocktail party it's hard to get cornered as guests tend to promenade up and down the main track".
Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who has lumbered uninspiringly through the campaign, has begun to resemble a cornered elephant devilishly hard to bring down.Until this week, it had all been looking very different.
Even those avant gardists who started out by embracing this new way of country living found their spirits failing when faced with the hard-edged, sharp-cornered realities.
With their hard-edged, round-cornered rectangles and sherbet colors, they evoke nostalgia for the purist Modernism of the 1960's (Johnson).
The remaining Taliban and Al Qaeda warriors seem determined to elude capture and, if cornered, to fight hard.
In the hard-core version I tested, the wagon cornered confidently even at speeds that would quickly get you drummed out of the neighborhood association.
No one could pretend that the writer of these letters emerges as consistently likeable or admirable, but it is hard not to feel sympathy for a man so cornered by personal unhappiness, financial anxiety and professional frustration.
This person may: have passive-aggressive tendencies; be feeling a load of self-pity; resent you or the situation; feel cornered; or may simply find it all too hard to deal with.
I mentioned another aspect of rat behaviour that might prove a "hard sell" with the public, namely the well-known tendency of cornered rats to leap for the throat of the nearest human.
