Into these insalubrious surroundings enters a nameless and magnificently weird protagonist, a disgraced professor and classic unreliably unreliable narrator, the spawn of Kafka and Krafft-Ebing, squirrelly and vaguely deviant.
A Soviet-U.S. crisis in Cuba (October 1962) had coincided with the Sino-Indian struggle, and in both cases the Chinese believed the Soviet Union had acted unreliably and had become "capitulators" of the worst sort.
On the other hand, because of the scrambling, we're experiencing confusion, as if we're seeing things replayed or unreliably dreamed up in an unstable mind – Kay's or John's.
Didion is not an unreliable narrator; on the contrary, she is a scrupulous, obsessive observer of the delirium that sometimes makes her act unreliably.
The costume also featured a set of (unreliably) inflatable genitals operated by a roadie offstage.
Who in college volunteered for Citymeals-on-Wheels (albeit unreliably and briefly).
A toxic combination of poor health, Johnnie Walker Red, and, it emerged, cocaine addiction had left him unreliably employed, uninsured, and living in a welfare motel.
Bethea offers a detailed account of Price's rise and fall, made especially compelling by unreliably narrated passages from Price's unpublished autobiography.
Although the first group would be almost all male and the second group would be almost all female, the division would be determined not by gender but by actual physical advantages that gender supposedly, yet unreliably, supplies.
Most of that stems, unreliably, from two novels featuring her, a quite obscure one from 1975, another by Heinrich, with whom she was by then living.
