Made of glass and plexiglass bricks and set on wagon wheels like a prairie schooner, it is packed with fanciful allusions and tributes: to country carpentry, old-style American farm life, vernacular rural architecture and, at the same time, the futuristic visions that glass seems to offer.
Not exactly clumsy but, well, endearingly homespun, belying the sleekness of the glass, this evocative structure is packed with fanciful allusions and tributes: to country carpentry, old-style American farm life, vernacular rural architecture and, at the same time, the futuristic vision that glass seems to offer.
The manuscript comprises four elements: a calendar, a biblical picture-cycle, a vernacular saint's life in verse, and a psalter.
The actor said that he doesn't use the word in his vernacular and personal life.
You are not having conversations about 'Hey, let's protect each other.' " In street vernacular, it is gay life lived on the "down low".
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin 211pp, Viking, £14.99 This much-praised first novel relates in vivid vernacular the intense inner life of Sam Marsdyke, a bright but disturbed rural adolescent, tracing his journey from oddball isolation to fully fledged insanity.
AS Jim Abdo emerged from the 1907 bungalow he has transformed from its humble past into its current double life — period vernacular outside, completely modern inside — Vivaldi strings gushed from exterior speakers, filling the Virginia foothills with music.
In 1919, he brought out the volume that he will be remembered for, if for nothing else, in a hundred years: "The American Language," a long, scholarly, but also fun and funny study of what was probably the greatest love of his life, American vernacular speech.
The use of the vernacular in modern political life is a manifestation of this shift, confirmation that the political community really does belong to the people, and not to the elite.
