It is a heavy tome, utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability.
"To be honest," he said of the heavy tome, "it was a bit of a slog.
It is a heavy tome, utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability," writes Gill.
It is a heavy tome, devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability.
The prime minister has also taken a heavy tome – Simon Sebag Montefiore's Jerusalem: The Biography.
Lord knows when packing for a trip like this the last thing you need is another heavy tome.
A A Gill said Morrissey's book was a "heavy tome, utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability" and added that should an editor start cutting it "there would be no stopping".
The 130 novels we read are a fraction of what was published this year and it's always possible we missed a good one, even a heavy tome or populist book not submitted by their publishers.
I'll let someone else call it ironic because, among other things, I think he was having fun with the reader who takes literature seriously, and not just writing a heavy tome full of semiotic clues.
In her omnivorous reading she had downed a heavy tome on Catholicism, and asked him to clarify some abstruse point about St. Paul and the founding of the church that seemed to her somehow self-contradictory.
It is a heavy tome, so it should keep me occupied for a little while.
