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A delight also to find Ken Worpole and Jason Orton's important text and image essay The New English Landscape (Field Station); Vagabond Witness (Zero Books), Paul Gordon's beautifully written advocacy of the great Victor Serge; and the wondrous book-length concertina poem/portrait collaboration Correspondences by Anne Michaels and painter Bernice Eisenstein (Bloomsbury).
I am my own Dieu, I fashion my vanity, delighting in the vicarious transgression that has fashionable artists like those fools Cocteau and Picasso, who have never dared to have oral sex with a leprotic geriatric vagabond.
It has also been miserably served by its politicians, and today the choice before the voters looks as bad as ever before.Yet it is at least abundantly clear that Pakistan's rotten politics and vagabond institutions will never be put right by an army dictator, including an unreformed Mr Musharraf.
Or, more fearfully, he wrote of his 12-year-old self: "I might easily have been…a little robber or a little vagabond".
Yet their quiet virtues look uncommonly good against their vagabond peers including the 72 about to enter the Lok Sabha, India's parliament, charged with serious crimes.This may be another reason for Congress's strong showing.
Among his more impressive achievements, says the observer, was "cajoling and taking control of a "vagabond law machinery in Gujarat .Mr Modi greatly values the younger man for his intense loyalty and political skills, helping him to rise despite his being embroiled in controversies that might have ended, or at least restricted, the career of somebody less favoured.
As in much of Asia, the performer in the popular tradition is seldom accorded status and may be despised as a vagabond.
Pinkerton sings the praises of the "vagabond Yankee" who travels the world, taking his pleasure at every shore ("Dovunque al mondo").
These separatist Uzbeks became known as Kazakh ("Independent" or "Vagabond ") Uzbeks, and over time a significant differentiation developed between them and the nonseparatist Uzbeks in their respective ways of life: that of the Kazakhs was more nomadic, that of the Uzbeks more sedentary.
After the fall of his patron, Duque de Estrada resumed his vagabond life, serving in Transylvania and in the Thirty Years' War.
McTeer received Academy Award nominations for her roles in Tumbleweeds (1999), as a vagabond single mother, and Albert Nobbs (2011), as a woman who disguises herself as a man in 19th-century Ireland.
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The word "vagabond" functions as a noun , adjective , or verb . As a noun, it denotes a person who wanders from place to place. As an adjective, it describes something or someone that is wandering or unsettled. Ludwig AI indicates that the phrase is grammatically correct and widely used.
Expression frequency: Very common
