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...The waiter said the rosemary potatoes were essential and “popular with children”, of which plenty were present. The place was crawling with fine-boned infants in near-couture romper wear....
...One of the great students of Ireland’s native plants was Evelyn Booth, who published her fine Flora of County Carlow in 1979....
...Unfortunately, ours are not. 17th-century gardener, diarist and polymath John Evelyn announces that he will make a salad....
...I arrive at Brideshead, the stately home of Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel, with its wide staircases, marble pillars and unlimited wine cellar....
...“I was brought in by Rosemary Verey [the renowned 1980s designer] because I was fascinated by topiary. I did all the designs and brought over templates to make the shapes....
...Lilah RaptopoulosInteresting . . . in that they’re sort of polite even though they’re flawed. Ruben Östlund Exactly. So . . . Lilah RaptopoulosYeah....
...Moore plays Evelyn, a leftwing mom frustrated by her shallow son Ziggy’s obsession with becoming a YouTube music sensation....
...Interruptions caused glitches so conversation became stiffer and more polite, like a body-snatcher’s replica of human interactions....
...Regular testing is only polite. But, at least in my experience, dressing up is still very much encouraged. Although, sign of the times: there is a very 2021 coda to Euan’s story....
...Moving creakily, sniffily ignoring the man beside him, is Evelyn Waugh. After the long car journey from Somerset, the novelist is buoyed along only by the glimpse of the drinks trolley....
...Upstairs is a serene garden oasis under the aegis of a polite Grand Dame hotel; but downstairs tales are traded, deals made and sorrows drowned....
...Siri found the lines immediately and read them in a polite and apologetic way....
...There is one thing that a journalist can count on, said a character in Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel Scoop: “popularity”....
...Stir well before adding the tinned tomatoes, chilli flakes, bay leaves, thyme and rosemary. Season with sea salt, ground black pepper and a teaspoon of sugar....
...They had an almost symbiotic relationship with their work — Evelyn completed William’s novels, William devised new formulas for Evelyn’s paints — and this extended to politics....
...It was a portrait of Balthus’s studio by [the late German-American photographer] Evelyn Hofer. The colours were so saturated and sublime, unlike any other colour print I’d ever seen....
...Developers have resorted to a polite modernism — polite in materials if not scale — and need to sell their schemes, so that architectural response is a commercial imperative....
...Fellow residents approved by the notoriously picky co-op committee include Henry Kissinger, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and Uma Thurman, the actress....
...“A wonderful opportunity for reinvention is the polite way to describe it.” NextLaw is backing legal technology start-ups....
...The apples could have been tarter and the whole thing a couple of degrees more gooey but the dollop of rosemary ice cream that came with it would have made a perfect finish all alone....
...The Swiss are really nice people: calm, considered, polite . . . It’s very conservative, so breaking the codes was a bit of a challenge....
...The site of the future Old Bond Street was occupied by the eastern wing of Clarendon House, described by John Evelyn as “without hyperboles . . . the noblest pile, the most useful, graceful, and magnificent...
...He may have been being polite. We bought the orecchiette, made by hand that morning....
...Chivalrous and exquisitely polite, he dazzled almost everyone who met him and gave South Africans a new sense of wellbeing....
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