Hints and tips:
...“When I was 12 or 13 my father used to bring back from his travels albums by Uriah Heep and Atomic Rooster.”...
...asks Uriah Heep in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, alluding to his premature announcement of his plan to marry Agnes. We probably all have. Pears are a paradoxical fruit....
...I don’t suggest that executives or politicians emulate Homem-Christo, a man who communicates in large part through the medium of pout. But I wonder what there is to show for the Uriah Heep strategy....
...The God Game is nonetheless a brisk, well-wrought piece of entertainment. HG Parry’s The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep (Orbit, RRP£8.99) is likewise a tale in which fantasy is overlaid on to reality....
...For Bathsheba, his last wife, David is a rapist and the murderer of her beloved husband Uriah, a deed that even Josephus can’t whitewash....
...Even in so brisk a telling, the ensemble is vast — just some among notable turns Benedict Wong as the pickled Mr Wickfield, his stoical daughter Agnes deftly played by Rosalind Eleazar, the slither of Uriah...
...He should not be feebly wringing his hands Uriah Heep-style and putting out fake offers of assistance to his underlings. He should have told staff briefly and clearly what he expected from them....
...US-style swagger is ridiculed [in the UK] but no one likes the Uriah Heep approach either....
...“There is an exponential pace of improvement in hardware and machine learning algorithms,” says co-founder Uriah Baalke. “The computational power required has gone down a lot.”...
...Investment groups such as BlackRock and Fidelity are as ’umble as Uriah Heep, Charles Dickens’ obsequious clerk, in the eyes of the Financial Stability Board. Yet they run funds worth trillions....
...There are neat caricatures from John Owen-Jones as the foppish Pirelli and Alex Gaumond as a Uriah-Heep lookalike Beadle....
...A long line of black-and-white photographs ascends the stairs by the entrance, commencing with Uriah Maggs, who founded the family business in 1853, at the foot, and culminating with contemporary Maggses...
...Not only did he impregnate Bathsheba; he sent her husband, Uriah the Hittite, to the battlefront to ensure he was killed. God punished David with the death of his and Bathsheba’s first child....
...I once saw a study that suggested the people who spoke least in interviews were most likely to land the jobs. And as for Uriah Heep, you are wrong about him, too....
...Mr Maggs, whose great-great grandfather Uriah Maggs started the business in the 1850s, says the range of values in the niche “is so wide that it’s impossible to treat as an investment medium”....
...Head chef Uriah Osborne uses the best local suppliers to create a British menu with a nod towards the French....
...We observe his obsession with Bill Sykes bludgeoning Nancy in Oliver Twist and how Miss Havisham, Micawber and Uriah Heep plague his dreams....
...Of all the deities in the show, he’s the most recognisable, constantly bouncing on bowed legs, his mouth coiled into a grimace worthy of Uriah Heep....
...Like Dickens’ Uriah Heep, The Rolling Stones were “ever so ’umble” in the run-up to Glastonbury....
...The Bible says he slept with her, got her pregnant and sent her husband Uriah into battle to get rid of him....
...It was noticeable that Mr Murdoch, happy to toy with the barrister like a cat with a baby mouse, kept sir-ring the judge Uriah Heepishly....
...There was something stirring as well as hideous in the swagger of McMullan and MacKenzie, which contrasts with the Uriah Heep-like stuff spouted by their successors as they appear before Leveson....
...We can recognise the universality of Uriah Heap (Dickens’s unctuous and obsequious character from David Copperfield); Mrs Bennet (Austen’s mother desperate to marry off her five daughters) and King Lear...
...He again “must commend Tyndale over the apostle himself” when it comes to the “dreadful ,,, sublimely intemperate” Paul, whom he likens to Dickens’ creepy Uriah Heep....
...And his characters – from Scrooge and the Artful Dodger to Mr Micawber and Uriah Heep – have become avatars of Englishness....
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