Hints and tips:
...McCormack inherited her taste for objets from her father, who worked as an art dealer and auctioneer in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he would buy antiques and “reposition” them as desirable goods....
...The exhibition’s two major lenders are former “Biba girls” Sarah McPherson, née Plunkett, Barbara’s first shop manager, and Lilli Anderson....
...But a list of desirable outcomes, as Richard Rumelt, a professor at the University of California, has written, is not a strategy....
...“Policies should not enforce top-down government views about desirable fertility levels or population size,” said Sobotka, adding that focusing only on financial incentives would fail in the long term....
...The most desirable carts can help put restaurants on the map....
...You’d either get a “golden lotus”, a three-inch shoe, or a “silver lotus”, which is a four-inch shoe and made you less desirable on the marriage market....
...Andrew recommended it to me after I mentioned I’d seen The Quiet Girl in the cinema....
...economic consequences John Greenwood, Bromley High School for Girls...
...Gillian Flynn consulted extensively with a small-town cop and a lawyer to write Gone Girl. Even the greats get things wrong....
...As Morland puts it: “[I]f you deem these things to be desirable, you cannot simply wait for a hero and hope.”...
...But while invulnerability is very girl-boss, she surely wasn’t always built this way? “No,” says Paltrow....
...Alongside the rise of confidence as an issue in corporate culture, the authors have noted the parallel — and seemingly paradoxical — boom in “vulnerability” as a desirable trait at work and in leadership...
...A girl who expresses herself demonstratively, symbolised by the bright red kite she flies, finds companionship in a smaller, quieter girl. The pair then become displaced from their home town....
...After Lena Dunham’s Girls was slated a decade ago for being too white, too wealthy and too homogenous, writing rooms have scrambled to build more lifelike, robust casts — ones that feel real in their grievances...
...Girls pose and pout, guys strut and stomp and everyone misses the manly Prince Charming, who has mysteriously vanished, leaving his drippy younger brother, Sebastian, as heir....
...The idea that it’s because men indulge in riskier behaviours, such as smoking and drinking, is refuted by cancer statistics in boys and girls....
...He wrote back that boys and girls wanting to follow him into Egyptology should ideally first study Latin and ancient Greek. I was 10....
...This means clearing properties by evicting tenants and “employing a fashionable architect to redesign them from the inside out” so they can be let to richer, more desirable people....
...That’s until the banana is taken away, whereupon it becomes eminently desirable....
...“It’s only when you’ve sold Doris Lessing to a 60-year-old black man or a crime novel to a 19-year-old girl that you know readers are capable of so much more.”...
...And just to the left is a willowy-looking girl, a wistful folk singer robed in . . . a nightdress? A peasant smock?...
...It’s the rock-chick version of the Ghesquière girl. Now that everyone’s dressing more casually, they’ll be interested in those elevated casual, sexy late-1990s/early-2000s styles.”...
...The Jewish Roman historian Flavius Josephus, writing in the first century, described King David as a man “of excellent character and endowed with all the virtues that were desirable in a king . . . a man...
...And despite being a by-the-book (or in this case, by-the‑bottle) kind of girl when it comes to meticulous application, my feet looked crummy, with no time to get a more substantial sandal....
...I’m in favour of marriage, always thought fidelity was desirable . . . I was never a swinger in nightclubs with a million women.” Allen might be forgiven for living in the past at the moment....
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