And the shadow chancellor's habit of spunky defiance is largely to blame.In this section The Polish paradox No go, GOCO Independence day Are they being preserved?
As for the notion that a spunky outsider could have spotted the rot, look at the independent directors of America's blow-ups.
Allen Lane; £25A spunky, humorous woman who fought conventional Victorian family expectations to lead an independent life as an artist, businesswoman and conservationist._________________________________________Edith WhartonBy Hermione Lee.
But he is more than that a spunky maverick who has frequently broken with the Republican machine and earned admiration from moderates and independents.
In 2004, after a long election night (it was unclear for hours whether there would be enough provisional ballots in Ohio to save John Kerry's campaign), John Edwards, the would-be-vice-president, gave a spunky concession speech right before he introduced his running mate.
American singer, actress, and entrepreneur who was a spunky entertainer who forged a more than 60-year career, appearing in films, onstage, and on TV, notably in her Emmy Award-winning title-role performance as the alcoholic torch singer in "The Helen Morgan Story" (1958), an episode of the anthology series Playhouse 90, and as a lively panelist (1956 61) on the game show To Tell the Truth.
Didacticism won out over entertainment in Ken Loach's Iraq war drama Route Irish, while Sally Hawkins's spunky performance energized Made in Dagenham, Nigel Cole's otherwise mechanical account of female car factory workers struggling for wage equality.
She got her first major film role in 1955 as the unkempt and spunky teenager Lissy in the western Count Three and Pray.
Her most popular roles were as the spunky heroine of Alfred Hitchcock's mystery The Lady Vanishes (1938) and as the voluptuous highwaywoman in the costume drama The Wicked Lady (1945).
To make his point, Oertels introduces me to a new movement in German cooking spearheaded by the so-called Junge Wilde (the young wild): a gang of young spunky maverick chefs.
One reason I got drummed out of the women's movement from the start was my embrace of the vampy, Amazonian Bond girls and of the spunky TV characters they inspired on Charlie's Angels, a show denounced by feminists as degrading to women.
