There we were, taking a naughty, unfashionable delight in Lecter's desire to scorn the uneducated ("I forget your generation can't read, Clarice"), and breathlessly following his plans to enslave them in his schemes, when all along he was dreaming of a real servant class, lost in the ancestral mist of his Lithuanian estates.
"Cockers has done a tremendous job and been a real servant to the club.
It was already a bad idea when the winds stopped howling and the tides stopped surging and the real public servants, out there in the neighborhoods, began to report just how bad this was, how bad this still is.
In the beginning these civil servants in a real sense servants of the crown were sent out from Berlin to deal with such purely military matters as recruiting, billeting, and victualing the troops, but in the course of time they extended their supervision to civil matters as well.
"Chris is a real public servant," she said.
Vicente del Bosque, the man who now stands possibly one match from coaching Spain through its finest soccer achievement, had been a Real Madrid servant from 1964 until 2003.
It fits perfectly with Mr. Florio's image of Mr. Corzine: he's not a real public servant, he just plays one on TV -- in his $2 million-a-week million-a-week million-a-week
Thus the Cheremis Jumo has a real court with servants in his heaven, and these servants act as intermediaries between humans and the god of the sky.
I consider hiring a servant to bring my bounty back to my hotel room for me – only real arseholes hire servants to carry their shit for them, but I'm not ready to go that far yet.
The "downstairs" set did not have the two-dimensional feel of a movie set but of a real underworld of servants' rooms.
