Hints and tips:
...When you’re a single person in your thirties and you have to deal with everyone else’s children all the time, you realise the extent to which they can test your patience and decency and you really understand...
...Russian-speaker Ravitch has made a virtue out of employing patience in complex situations....
...Roald Dahl’s late-career cautionary tale The Witches always made a tricky adaptation....
...He said Europe needed to show patience in regard to rising prices, which he described as partly a consequence of the speed of the post-pandemic recovery....
...Augustus Gloop, that great big greedy nincompoop, was sent up a pipe by Roald Dahl’s Oompa Loompas to be turned into fudge. The dreadfully spoilt Veruca Salt was thrown down the garbage chute....
...Among the former, Sol LeWitt, Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei; among the latter, Giuseppe Panza, Miuccia Prada, Charles Saatchi and — Logsdail’s earliest advocate — his uncle, Roald Dahl....
...“Rei is very direct, and has very little patience with false compliments, which has been a good example for me.”...
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