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...Smil’s pessimism about the probable pace of change can grate but his grasp of the subject is formidable....
...The homespun wisdom can sometimes grate, but Aldama often makes the same points that fancier authors obscure with jargon....
...Some gags have dated more than others: the national stereotyping grates, as does the male characters’ easy sexism....
...And her jokiness can grate, as when she mentions in a footnote that she doesn’t watch porn “partly [as] an ethical decision and partly because the sofas are so hideous”....
...“My sister-in-law Estelle really liked my ‘hole in the wall’, and I made her a bonfire grate for her home in San Diego.”...
...Jonathan Coker, Nigeria’s former ambassador to Beijing, says western warnings about Chinese investments are hypocritical. “Diplomats say we will become slaves of China....
...But the “mini” label quickly began to grate....
...Steel-grate catwalks and a linking bridge are suspended from the giant roof beam running the length of the building....
...Turkey biryani ‘Christmas Days’ by Jeanette Winterson is published by Jonathan Cape (£14.99).For the biryani recipe, go to ft.com/biryani Photographs: Tereza Cervenova...
...translations appeared in 2012, Rachel Cusk described Knausgaard’s work as “the most significant literary enterprise of our times”; Zadie Smith confessed that she needed the next instalment “like crack”; Jonathan...
...Sorcerer to the Crown combines magic and the Regency period in the manner of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, but adds an Austenian piquancy....
.../ From Jonathan Haslam...
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...They have mixed the usual ingredients and produced an account that grates and cloys in equal measure....
...Those busy, cascading sentences create drama but they can also grate....
...Indeed, he appears to have even lost support amongst Regions’ prior heartland in Eastern Ukraine as perceptions of graft and the over-centralisation of power around the family seem to grate with the electorate...
...Its triumphal tone will grate with those who believe the BNDES should be shrinking, not expanding....
...More recently, Dear Everybody (2008) was a novel in the form of a scrapbook of letters, diary entries, transcripts and newspaper cuttings, all posing as the papers left behind by “Jonathan Bender, Weatherman...
...The Red House, by Mark Haddon, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99, 264 pages We fiction readers have an almost universal weakness for books about People Like Us....
...Jonathan Yardley’s passion for championing forgotten books grates at times and he has a touch of the revisionist – he calls Catcher in the Rye a “maladroit, mawkish novel”....
...Today, his New Labour reformist mantra grates in Britain but also in Europe after the election of Socialist president François Hollande....
...The sanctimonious tone may grate at times, but this is a powerful exposé....
...The obsession with Eduardo, their top-scorer in qualifying but absent from this tournament after breaking his leg in February, had begun to grate – Slaven Bilic mentioned him yet again in the build-up to...
...But Ben Meyjes as Edgar and Jonathan Hyde as Kent are very strong....
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