Hints and tips:
...Flakes were peeling off the bone, around the nerve cavities, almost like the bark of a tree, only harder and more brittle....
...Your credit card bills are higher. That’s the brake pedal. It’s meant to slow spending....
...Bill Clinton signed it in 1998, and the EU imported it as Article 6 of the EUCD in 2001....
...And as a stress test for how they’ll approach the election campaign, I think it did show him to be quite brittle and snappy....
...The travel writer Bill Bryson once said the most striking thing about the British weather is that “there isn’t very much of it.” No tornadoes, no monsoons, virtually no raging blizzards....
...And while he does not discuss limitations of the approach, the proposal to merge a global “bill of digital rights” with a re-establishment of “data commons” is welcome, and potentially transformative....
...Those who pick up the bills are, by contrast, relatively honest in their more limited motivations....
...Once again, the Denver-based composer delivers spiky lines with a brittle cornet tone, guitarist Bill Frisell and pianist Jason Moran merge textures and line, and bass and drums add extra layers underneath...
...“The pandemic has exacerbated all these problems that were already there with exams,” said Bill Lucas, director of the Centre for Real-World Learning at the UK’s Winchester university....
...Grainger was a good choice, capturing the brittle humour that masks real vulnerability and sadness. When I need a fillip, I find a bit of John Cooper Clarke never fails....
...As Grand Horizons begins, they are performing a brittle pas de deux around the salt shaker in advance of what promises to be a mirthlessly taciturn dinner in a bland suburban retirement community....
...“In a crisis like this, all the weak spots get revealed,” says Bill Dudley, former head of the New York branch of the Fed....
...Lift them carefully (they are quite brittle) on a rack to cool. Roughly chop the smoked salmon and blend it briefly in the liquidiser until very smooth....
...Yet there’s also something oddly unsatisfying about it: the brittle arguments are to the point, yet often feel too engineered or too pat, and it ends just when it needs to start digging down....
...Monica Dolan’s superb Toni is a tornado of rage and misery, while Steven Mackintosh’s brittle Bo and Edward Hogg’s volatile Franz are clearly putting up a desperate front....
...But then again, it is the car industry, where egos are so big yet brittle that some clever pandering could go a good long way....
...Bill Winters should take a leaf out of Mr Staley’s book. The Standard Chartered boss’s public annoyance with investors who criticised his pay arrangements seemed brittle — as are his bank’s prospects....
...Also, gaseous hydrogen makes steel brittle and leaks through almost any seal. It is clean-burning, but otherwise is not a consumer product....
...His aide memoire takes the form of a feisty sextet that twins his brittle-and-brassy lines with the gruff warmth of Joe Lovano’s tenor sax and adds two electric guitars, Bill Laswell’s grungy bass and the...
...Full from the chicharrón, I can manage only a brittle drumstick....
...Oh, and if you think we should be able to do all this without the help of America, the bill would be a lot higher. Simple.” The writer is Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution...
...Pinned on the wall like petrified insects, these mummified garments have a tragic, brittle sweetness....
...Implausibly, this was not the only alternative, in-progress musical about the suffragette movement on the bill....
...Here, guitarist Bill Frisell joins Vu’s working trio to celebrate the music of composer/arranger Michael Gibbs....
...Ross Douthat revisits Bill Clinton's scandals and says Democrats missed an opportunity to establish some moral common ground for a polarising country....
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