Hints and tips:
...I could blip the nice lady in Waitrose for helping me find something on the spice shelf....
...The New York Times had called him “the Lady Gaga of Design”. But sitting across from Chiave was intimidating....
...On entering, Ferdinand scented the flowers in the lady spectators’ hats, sat down and refused to fight....
...The hotel’s creative director is Andrea Gelardin, whose other clients have included Lady Gaga....
...They set out to meet that special, hairy, eight-eyed lady. Many end up ignominiously trapped in bathtubs. Others meet the female of their dreams. If the male spider gets lucky, they mate....
...Standing in front of the mirror in the kitchen, the cat next to her on the countertop, she would coil her shiny blonde hair into a chignon and apply her make-up, listening to Neil Young, The Chieftains,...
...It was roundly mocked, including by arch modernist Virginia Woolf in her 1937 novel The Years: “Old ladies [ . . .] sit eyeless, leather cheeked, joyless among the tassels and antimacassars of their bedrooms...
...Genji’s mother is the lady of the Paulownia court in the emperor’s palace....
...Joan Baez was “wicked-looking — shiny black hair that hung down over the curve of slender hips, drooping lashes, partly raised”....
...Kalyan So I spoke to a very nice lady and she was very . . . this is just on the phone....
...The vessel could be a symbol for his own work: repair and renewal have become a speciality of his practice John McAslan + Partners alongside its shiny new developments....
...This article is part of a guide to London from FT Globetrotter The first major phase of London’s highly anticipated Elizabeth Line opened in May, boasting wide platforms, shiny new trains and snazzy purple...
...The organiser was a kind old lady called Mrs Rathgeber whose irritable husband grew prize vegetables....
...[The famous pastellist] Odilon Redon was exploring with matt and shiny effects.”...
...“People will come to see our values – that we’re not interested in buying the brand-new car or having the shiny…” Sommers breaks off. “Heirloom jewellery is much more important.”...
...Last year, the auction house sold a 1997 shiny-pink alligator mini Lady Dior for £8,125 – four times its estimate....
...Inside, guests find themselves below the legs of a suspended couple cast in shiny metal and seemingly entwined by their engorged intestines. It is, it turns out, a work by Louise Bourgeois....
...Lady Victoria Hervey was intrigued by a young woman with such a high profile who was also “quite mysterious in a way”: “You kind of wanted to find out more.”...
...A fun finale featuring supermodels Natalia Vodianova, Naomi Campbell and even (publicity coup alert) former first lady of France Carla Bruni had Balmain superfans whooping....
...Why did the screaming lady give birth to a fully-grown man? Why don’t they buy him a bigger tricycle? What was the machete business about?...
...Upturned boats, or currachs, lay in the fields near the shore, waiting for summer, their black shiny backs like hibernating beetles....
...It is better for new than second-hand, and stock is “curated”, so you’re less likely to find a bargain than something that looks shiny and irresistible....
...Bey has recently reprinted the negative at a scale that finally does justice to the lady’s towering dignity....
...Red Delicious, with its shiny scarlet skin and its perfect apple-shouldered silhouette, was America’s most-grown variety from 1968 until 2018 despite being tasteless and mealy....
...His hair is a shiny helmet, his face and hands tinged grotesquely green....
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