As Ms. Jones described them, her parents were distant, chilly people, miserly and neglectful, and perhaps that is where the self-reliance and sense that life must proceed in spite of obstacles manifested in her characters was born.
Their tolling, Father Roman told me, has been known to bring miserly or hard-hearted people to repentance, and to dissuade would-be murderers and suicides.
Likewise, paying Mr. Handler the same percentage of earnings as Mr. Blankfein would set his pay at $900,000 – handsome for most people, but miserly for a top Wall Street banker and chief executive.
In his speech, he said he would lift some of the regulations that strangle private enterprise and that he would gradually revalue the Cuban peso, now nearly worthless, to allow people on miserly state salaries to earn a better living.
The very intense and on-the-nose 2013 movie Elysium established a physical delineation between the miserly world predominantly populated by poor people of colour and a nearby space station where rich white billionaires hang out and protect their own.
Ramirez was stupidly wealthy, and by many accounts miserly, but he always seemed most comfortable around people of modest means and ambition.
The states were not being too generous in the recognition of rights, but too miserly -- refusing to give one class of people the same rights as others.
Phoney currency wars Come on, TTIP Grey squirrels ReprintsWhereas public-sector salaries and benefits for working-age people are set to rise by a miserly 1% a year over the next few years, pensions have been "triple-locked": they increase by average earnings, inflation (currently 2.7%) or 2.5%, whichever is higher.
Thus, while Britain possesses a highly efficient labour market in which people search for jobs ultra-aggressively because their miserly benefits are dependent on their doing so, unemployment is climbing inexorably towards 3 million.
Colleges and universities have become cheerleaders and enablers of the unpaid internship boom, failing to inform young people of their rights or protect them from the miserly calculus of employers.
