Her parents admitted that the family had been tattered by infidelity and addictions to prescription painkillers and antidepressants.
They were red and had big characters promising Qi Shi — literally, "strange stones" — and had been tattered and torn by the wind.
They were red and had big characters promising Qi Shi literally, "strange stones"—and had been tattered and torn by the wind.
Even the beguiling scenes were beautifully understated: for example, the wistful chorus sung by the shepherds and shepherdesses on the wallpaper of the bedroom, whose images have been tattered by gashes the boy made with a knife.
That tradition has been looking tattered of late, but Governor Christie will probably arrange for his party to nominate someone who, like him, at least has the appearance of being non-crazy.
If all the other parties continue to throw dirt at each other, Yabloko might pick up some extra votes.The other big shuffle has been in the tattered ranks of the pro-market, pro-western camp, now called the Union of Right-wing Forces.
While the administration has been openly reviewing its tattered athletics program for a year, the decision to drop football caught many people off guard, puzzling some, angering others, while becoming a public relations nightmare.
Corbyn ripped up the political rule book some months ago, of course; since being confirmed as leader of the opposition on Saturday he has been gathering up those tattered bits of paper and shredding them into even teenier pieces so he can bundle them into a pile and then light a match.
It is as if the paintings themselves had weathered years of rain, been tattered by winds, bleached by sunlight, assailed by hailstorms, cracked by frost.
But though this tattered yarn has been spectacularly rewoven, the problem Mantel has is that every reader knows how it ends - with Anne beheaded and Henry reeling to the altar four times more.
