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...Or some grave-faced war correspondent on the news....
...The title’s reference to Raymond Chandler’s novel is misleading — this is anything but a hard-boiled private eye novel. Lippman’s subjects are racism, sexism and the straitjacket of class....
...“Our side” made the grave mistake of underestimating the right....
...The Gritterman , by Orlando Weeks, Particular Books, RRP£17.99 Weeks, former frontman of indie band The Maccabees, walks in the footsteps of Raymond Briggs with this plaintive, beautifully illustrated tale...
...There are virtual graves where families can pay their respects and chatbots that converse with the living, based on texts and social media posts left by the dead....
...Favourite thing Sebregondi, a poet as much as a businesswoman, chooses a collection of 10 French sonnets, by Raymond Queneau....
...Raymond also highlights the 3.9m people who are employed in the UK’s food industry, whose jobs could be threatened by an increase in imports....
...Alejandro González Iñárritu nearly gloomed us into the grave with his last two films, Babel and Biutiful....
...Stephen wrote, by way of obituary, the Oedipal poem “The Ambitious Son”, expressing over his father’s grave “my contempt for your failure”. Success would be Stephen’s life-long ambition....
...Technically, all sexual sins, even including sexual fantasy, are classed as “grave” or “mortal”, and exclude a Catholic from receiving holy communion at Mass: unconfessed at death, so the Church taught down...
...An influential group of cardinals – including America’s Raymond Burke, Australia’s George Pell and Germany’s Gerhard Muller – has been lobbying against any move in that direction....
...“At work today,” the story begins, “Thomas the Dead, as he had privately named himself, made a grave miscalculation by using baby talk with a colleague.”...
...Also omitted are hugely popular novels published soon after the war ended, such as John Buchan’s Mr Standfast or Ernest Raymond’s Tell England....
...Ivy and lichen grow over the Victorian gravestones, including the graves of Walter Pater and JW Burgon, poet of ‘Petra’ – ‘a rose red city half as old as time’....
...His family wants to know whether that project sent him to his grave....
...Europe’s pension savings problem is grave by comparison to the retirement woes of its neighbours....
...We pass by his grave, past oak trees, and head downtown....
...Kohlberg’s first published novel, The Golden Gate is Red (2012), is crisply written and has a tang of Raymond Chandler....
...There seemed to be time, in those days of angel-infancy and not-so-angel-adolescence, for lounging around, reading books by PG Wodehouse and Raymond Chandler; practising tennis shots against the wall in...
...A grave Julia is nodding at what the Indian doctor’s saying. The nurse still stares at me with amazed contempt. Mum’s still shuddering in Jason’s arms. Hathaway’s still in my ear....
...Among the numerous documents released is a confidential presentation given to the board of Moody’s corporation in October 2007, by Chairman Raymond McDaniel....
...To his right sits his personal security detail, a grave-looking fellow with a Bowie knife and two shotgun rounds strapped to his flak jacket. To his left sits a leather attache case....
...Mr Raymond and Mr Welch were both executives who left at or near the top of their game....
...In July 2005, while on a sailing holiday with his family, he ruptured a ligament in his knee, a grave injury that required reconstructive surgery and that sidelined him for four months....
...Though his primary target is to stop "non-western" immigration into the Netherlands, he also wants to dismantle the cradle-to-grave welfare state which he claims is damaging Dutch competitiveness....
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