And for his press box contemporaries Hopcraft offered this scathing observation: "It is curious that football reporters very seldom use the same language in talking about the game that they employ in writing about it.
The offending line was a scathing observation of the way recent films such as The Danish Girl and The Dallas Buyers Club have allowed non-trans actors to exude bravery and empathy by presenting the struggles of a marginalised community.
The definitive work on the circle is still Waugh's 1930 novel "Vile Bodies," an affectionately scathing observation of his mostly drunk and vapid pals, which Stephen Fry turned into the blithe 2003 film "Bright Young Things".
But the book itself was a scathing observation about the false differentiation between class and money or the lack thereof.
When he opened the book and started reading, however, he was entranced by Wolfe's scathing and hilarious observation of New York's leftwing elites.
At the time, Riad Sattouf was well known as a big talent on France's thriving comics scene, drawing funny and scathing works of social observation.
His observations confirm the conclusions of a scathing report released last week by the SEC inspector general that detailed how the agency botched numerous investigations of Madoff.
Bel-Ami is drawn from the author's observation of the world of sharp businessmen and cynical journalists in Paris, and it is a scathing satire on a society whose members let nothing stand in the way of their ambition to get rich quick.
