Reprints Related items Charlemagne: Divide and rule Apr 24th 2003To outsiders, unversed in the ecclesiology of the EU, these arguments might look like obscure disputes about bureaucratic process.
Britain and Spain have keenly praised Mr Chirac's idea.To those unversed in the arcane ways of debates in Brussels, proposing a European president might seem just as integrationist as anything Mr Prodi has come up with.
Those unversed in modernist poetry might presume it a line from Hughes's Crow.
Roosevelt did express doubts about Wallace's political abilities, considering him "too aloof" and unversed in the art of greasing the wheels.
Clearly unversed in the harsh consequences of hubris, McDaniels greatly angered the football gods in his fifth game at the helm in Denver, when the New England Patriots came to town.
To those unversed in Chanel, the hats may be news: as befits a woman who was led by her brain, rather than by any lower organ, she began by dressing the head, then worked her way down.
Mandanipour's writing is exuberant, bonhomous, clever, profuse with puns and literary-political references; the reader unversed in contemporary Iranian fiction might easily think of Kundera (who is alluded to), or of the Rushdie of "Midnight's Children" (who is not).
He wants nothing but the best for his nephew, an erring neophyte unversed in the finer methods of temptation.
In brief, I often find it helpful to pair a morsel of technical vocabulary with a metaphorical turn of phrase that will make sense to a reader unversed in musical jargon.
One of the beguiling things about this setup is the way in which Beattie reminds us how unworldly we all feel in our early 20s, how we suspect there are codes in which we are unversed, keys to understanding the world around us that are unrelated to our Phi Beta Kappa keys.
There was a sense – baffling to those of us unversed in match lore – that starting the fighting while still in the stadium was unfair and that the French police, condemned for overzealousness outside the ground, had now been asleep on the job.
