As with Chandler, it can be hard to find an acting style to match the high style of the speech, but director Paul Seed has demonstrated a knack for exaggerated reality right back to the great political drama House of Cards (1990), and it helps that his cast for Blandings includes Jennifer Saunders, whose own Absolutely Fabulous was Wodehousian in its use of posh horrors speaking vivid similes.
First, our prisons are filled with nonviolent offenders whose crimes absolutely don't necessitate their removal from society.
"Giant Internet-only companies make no profit but are still worth billions," Alexie, whose "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" is among the books being delayed by Amazon, wrote in a recent tweet.
When I was young, there were poets to whose words I absolutely clung — I had poetic touchstones which still resonate.
She described Saunders' work as "unflinching, delightful, adventurous, compassionate" and added: "He is a true original whose work is absolutely of the moment.
This week the cable channel Logo began showing "Beautiful People," a comedy produced by Jon Plowman (whose credits include "Absolutely Fabulous") for the BBC.
"Let me tell you, there are people dying, and people whose lives are absolutely ruined as a result of domestic violence.
The witty finale of the Bridge variations, a fugue whose exposition contains absolutely no counterpoint at all, still manages to deceive listeners, including Kildea, who includes it in a list of examples of "strict fugal writing" in Britten.
"There are the animals you don't like and that you dismiss as small brown vermin, and the animals whose attributes you absolutely want to own," to be a tiger, a bear, lupine leader of the pack.
