"I, for one," she writes, "don't trust the book trade to see us through this." She notes that the Google settlement "proposes to give a breathtakingly audacious near-monopoly to Google and
mingy terms to writers." The current publishing climate in her view is "...
Who's afraid of the digital revolution?
In a sense, Wolfe did not even belong to the mountains, in which he felt prison-pent, an exile even in his mother's house, nor did he feel that he belonged to his family--the monumental father, the
mingy mother, the brood of siblings--nor really to the many cities out yonder, nor to the women in them, whom he never really understood.
Thomas Wolfe, a mountain writer
With this character we recall the
mingy cleric's words as he gives Lazarillo leftovers of one of his sheep's heads: "Toma, come, triunfa, que para ti es el mundo.
Further comments on Alfonso de Valdes as author of Lazarillo de Tormes
And while England, in the words of Robert Hughes, the critic, is "a nation always
mingy in valuing its own artists", it gave space and inspiration to Freud.
A portrait of the artist..
Her often large canvases have been crammed into two
mingy tower galleries, and there is a strange precision to the span of years covered.
Helen Frankenthaler: Guggenheim Museum
I sing boys' not quite needing to shave yet, though their mothers nag about the
mingy silver-blond mustache.
To boy
A Conservative MP fulminated in Parliament over this hopeless view of home being commissioned by the Ministry of Information, an attack that only proved Massingham's view of the
mingy condition of his country.
English lessons: James Quandt on Richard Massingham
Consider the snowmelt once known as Martha Stewart, another indefatigable narcissist, reduced to a puddle of cake frosting for a
mingy bit of insider trading while the gnomes of Enron have (so far) gone scot-free for the biggest robbery in US history.
Blame it on Brio: Gary Indiana on Leni Riefenstahl
Mel B invited him to select his own Spice Boys and he chose Sting as Tantric Spice, George Michael as Hairy Spice, Rod Stewart as
Mingy Spice and himself as Mince Spice.
A happy camper playing to the gallery; WEEKEND
I said 'Thanks for the PS4' and they all realised he was a
mingy so and so!" 6.
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And place, all important to Hou, poet of verdant landscapes, rural train stations, and
mingy, indifferent cities, cannot transcend the history that weighs on it.
A certain slant of light: James Quandt on the films of Hou Hsiao-hsien
Furthermore, as Rashid Khalifa discovers after the battle, the mighty tyrant who almost sealed the Wellspring permanently is nothing but "a skinny, scrawny, snivelling, drivelling,
mingy, stingy, measly, weaselly, clerkish sort of fellow" (190).
"All names mean something": Salman Rushdie's 'Haroun' and the legacy of Islam
Capoeiristas are, in fact, often
mingy with praise for colleagues.
Jogo bonito: a brief anatomy of capoeira