In this section, Piketty effectively rips apart one of the great lies of the 21st century – that super-managers deserve their money because, like footballers, they have specialised skills which belong to an almost superhuman elite.
They obey every rule of good jeans: medium-rise waist; straight leg; slim-ish but not skinny; raw, indigo denim (it'll fade); absolutely no branding, or unnecessary stitching, or rips, or diamanté.
Because Gabi is married to a gangster (Mads Mikkelsen), Charlie finds himself entangled with Romanian mobsters whose preferred method of punishment is to attach enemies to one another with superglue that rips off their skin if they try to unstick themselves.
(And, less romantically, recurrent bleeps, coughs, rustles, rips and clicks of ourselves and our possessions. Why can't we shut up?) The sound of the seal proves a powerful lure, and as we retrace our steps to the boats it looks like, despite the crew's appeal to leave well alone, some passengers have split off to photograph a beached male.
The French are largely responsible for this song's success; the tune itself sounds like Get Lucky at a wedding disco, while the video strongly hommages (rips off) Stromae's clip for Tous les Mêmes.
The book opens with an account of a man who rips his own testicles off with a cord after a tantrum involving allegations of infidelity.
"It rips my heart in two".Since the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991, Macedonia's rich archaeological sites have been plundered wholesale.
That shift rips protons from the molecular chains of Dr Kiser's jelly-like solid, leaving exposed negative charges primed to form bonds with water molecules.
The reliably conservative Clarence Thomas has a written a bitter new autobiography in which he rips those who opposed his nomination to the court, including Democratic senators, Anita Hill, the media and liberals in general.
One of her white evening gowns has a big red lobster heading down its skirt; another has trompe l'oeil rips and is sprinkled with tears.
HOW far can Germany's constitution stretch before it rips?
