I will sometimes wear a floor-length skirt, but not all that often, because while they are undeniably excellent for standing around looking elegant in, if you attempt to accomplish anything at normal speed you end up walking along while lifting your skirts up in the manner of an impoverished minor Austen character who is about to give herself a fever from walking through wet grass.
At first glance, it appears to be a sardonic attack on the Victorian equivalent of chick lit — the throwing of shade at popular works that Eliot excoriates for having sentimental plots, one-dimensional characters, and impoverished language.
At first glance, it appears to be a sardonic attack on the Victorian equivalent of chick lit the throwing of shade at popular works that Eliot excoriates for having sentimental plots, one-dimensional characters, and impoverished language.
Most of these characters are impoverished 12- to 14-year-old latchkey children, adrift in Pantin, a poor suburb of Paris, where they run in packs and make money by stealing and reselling bicycles, clothes, anything they can lay their hands on, and by working as drug couriers for the older, more hardened teenagers who rule the streets.
Villagers in Glod, Romania, are still reeling after the British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen used their remote mountain outpost to represent the impoverished Kazakh home of his character Borat for the satirical film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan".
The ancestor of all road movies and novels, the picaresque in its classic form is narrated by a rogue from the lower stations who, on his journey, rises through the classes as he encounters various typecast characters — blind beggars, impoverished noblemen, lusty women.
Ms. Berry plays an impoverished, widowed young mother -- a character who could easily have become an object of pity -- with a ferocious concentration that forces you to believe in her.
He's an opportunist who gets fired from the Times for writing a Sunday Magazine cover story that falsely turns half a dozen impoverished African children into a composite character.
But to suggest that Lee shares these beliefs with her character is to offer an impoverished view of the novel.
After years as a management consultant, he was transfixed by this strange industry – the clothes, the characters, money swishing around and impoverished young designers – and he would blog about it.
