Most passerines hop, but others, such as larks, pipits, starlings, and meadowlarks, typically stride.
Throughout, the reader is reminded of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando," perhaps the outstanding literary model for such campy larks, and, closer to home, recent works by Ms. Carter's British contemporaries Julian Barnes, Fay Weldon and Martin Amis, in which wildly improbable happenings are yoked together in the interests of a satirical vision.
"It seemed such a lark," she said.
Distilleries such as Lark and Hellyers Road produce enough whisky to supply stores on the Australian mainland.
She did not hesitate to ask: Could their long-distance relationship, which seemed like such a lark, lead to marriage?
The three Wisconsin-born filmmakers were rather amazed that anybody would give them a budget -- and $3.5 million at that -- to make such a lark, one that had no big stars.
And while the fashion-savvy assistant helps you decide what to wear, it has an ulterior motive: to sell you clothing, including choices from one of Amazon's own apparel lines, such as Lark & Ro and North Eleven, started in 2016.
He has played other versions of this Zen/Beat warrior: Neal Cassady in the Beat movement chronicle "Heartbeat" and a de facto version of Cassady in "Who'll Stop the Rain?" What makes Bob such a lark for Mr. Nolte is his loving appreciation for shambles, both his own and the chaos that he can engineer.
While Ed Skrein doesn't get to make much of an impact as main baddie Ajax, nor Gina Carano as his muscle Angel Dust, the whole thing is such a lark it doesn't really matter.
