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...For all the grand settings, strictly codified conventions and snobbery, there’s something cosy about entering a world of balmy tennis meets and decadent soirées where petty scandals and idle gossip pass...
...Bertrand Russell wrote that “the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it”....
...That could be petty crime, theft, bank robberies. It could be stealing cable and making power cuts worse next time round....
...Sadly, as we learn throughout Temkin’s book, fortune too often favours the vain, the petty and the downright violent....
...However, what he finds in south-east Asia is not a well-oiled military machine but a profoundly rusty contraption....
...Feminist writer Diana Russell popularised the term, which she defined as “the killing of females by males because they are female”....
...Petty crime and vandalism were common. Part of the problem, naturally, was in the paperwork....
...Evans plays Chief Petty Officer Elliot Glover, who is the ship’s coxswain and whose job is to facilitate Silva’s investigations while keeping the secrets of the captain and senior crew members....
...It also opens the stage to a cast composed largely of older, Welsh actors, who nip nimbly from role to role as they recreate the cobbled streets, twitching curtains, secret loves and petty grievances of...
...Sensing he has an enthusiastic customer, the salesman quietly slips away and returns with a second blade, this time a petty — or paring — knife in the same rustic style....
...A dreary record of typical family bickering, petty annoyances and adolescent emotions....
...Streetwise youths and petty criminals are depicted in all their bravado and vulnerability, amid the daily terror and the humour of life in the city’s periphery....
...An old friend has joined me in case Kovesi’s English and my rusty Romanian need reinforcing....
...“I learnt far more during my 12 months with Becky and Russell than I did during three years at Warwick University,” he says....
...Five miles from central Turin, at Moncalieri, Russell Page, the celebrated landscape gardener, began working on the sloping site of the Villa Silvio Pellico in 1956....
...Shearer, as the patient, angelic and wronged Mary, is the star of the picture, although Rosalind Russell steals the show as her gossipy friend Sylvia....
...The two presidents have traded petty insults but Philip argues that Mr Kim now has everything he wants. He has outsmarted Mr Trump at almost every turn....
...The attempt to have a grown-up conversation about social care descended into petty political point scoring....
...I ask Russell and Kelly what kind of a dancer the former business secretary is. “Quite natural. Powerful,” says Russell. “He’s the Porsche,” says Kelly....
...Sell: Ocado (OCDO) The shape of the business is evolving, but this in no way justifies the stock’s absurd premium rating, writes Harriet Russell....
...So then I started shooting heroin,” says Charles Russell, 30, who has just celebrated 16 months of being sober....
...Strong arguments are occasionally weakened by glibness: “A politician in a suit can do far more harm than any street gang, drug dealer or petty thief.”...
...He is a garrulous man named Russell Fish, and you should read this profile of him in the Dallas Observer. It is really something.)...
...(FT) The road to radicalisation British police are piecing together the path that turned a petty criminal named Adrian Russell into Khalid Masood, the zealot who was responsible for Wednesday’s attack on...
...(Esquire) Unlocking a terrorist’s mind What turned petty criminal Adrian Russell Ajao into Khalid Masood, terrorist?...
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