Wine writing tends to be either chalk dry or perversely florid, but Johnson manages to cultivate a literate, self-deprecating style.
Basic education is one of the most far-reaching single investments that can improve the economies and foster the emergence of literate, self-reliant societies in the developing world.
It's Steel Magnolias at an Open University summer school and everything that happens in this highly contrived, self-consciously literate, self-congratulatory elitist work echoes, refers to or is inspired by Austen.
He's a stand-up comedian from New Jersey whose act has always been marked by literate, self-deprecating swipes at his own Jewishness, for one.
But whip-smart, pop-literate, self-aware humour saves the day (and the universe, come to think of it).
("Someone having a car," one 41-year-old teacher said in her application. "Literate and self-independent," said another applicant, a 36-year-old nurse).
Both Paul and Cora have come up in life from humble family origins, and if American readers might not be attuned to the fine points of British class divisions, they will at least recognize the milieu in which Paul and Cora now move: financially comfortable, literate, articulate, self-conscious.
Secretaries were evolving into a new breed: computer-literate, multitasking, self-directed executive assistants.
"I mean literally literate".
Instead, Buy.com will focus on "self-integrators," computer literate clientele who are self-employed or who buy PCs for their departments at work.
