First there'd been the anxiety-ridden, attitude-infused Jewish American novelists; followed by the less interesting, more self-regarding WASPs, the Updikes and Styrons and Foxxes; and the nondescript newbies, the young Turks full of sass and plausibility that Cora and her counterparts whipped up into supernovas for the four days of the fair, sometimes for book after book, year after year.
She's also created characters who are marvelous sendups, including the hepped-up, chest-bumping players whose cliche-ridden macho attitude in interviews is skillfully mimicked by the actors, a television interviewer prone to asking embarrassing questions in the smug guise of journalistic courage and a talk-show host with the self-importance of a big fish in a small pond.
Cardinal Michele Pellegrino, of Turin, one of the most progressive Italian prelates, in a recent article here entitled "What the Church Means and Does Not Mean by Change," defined the true nature of aggiornamento and criticized, without mentioning the Pope, what is now recognized as Paul's fear-ridden and backward-looking attitude.
"Looper," an obstreperously entertaining, bullet- and attitude-ridden science-fiction pastiche, opens in a futuristic world that looks and sounds paradoxically out of the past.
You've done enough".' As an antidote to the intense, attitude-ridden and unaffordable Fire Island and Hamptons, this town did not take long to exert its hold.
Anyone capable of staring down an adamant mother and a clubful of attitude-ridden New York City musicians is clearly well equipped to deal with recalcitrant record-company executives.
These are conclusions that those with lesser education come to, and attitudes that those ridden with fear and prejudice hold.
The mouthpiece also teased Rio Tinto's fickle attitude as the debt-ridden miner which once praised Chinalco as its "white knight" when the Chinese national aluminium manufacturer offered a "helping hand" with $19.5 billion investment when both commodities prices and stock markets were at the bottom.
Although none of the characters is multidimensional – this isn't an angst-ridden young-adult tale, but is for younger readers – Rawsthorne is adept at making the reader regularly change their attitude towards them.
It must have been when I boarded the bus a fourth time that a voice rose within me: Deliver me, please -- all is forgiven -- from this nightmare to the rude, anxious, attitude-rich, line-ridden hell of U.S. air travel!
