Where the film misses, I think, is in overly distancing itself from the imperative followed by the elite there, namely to live life with a sense of style _ indolently if at all possible _ while never appearing to work at it.
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The easygoing verb is defined in the OED as " to move indolently, resting between-whiles or leaning on something for support, " which grew out of an earlier meaning, " to skulk, to slouch ."
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And between them is a shorter eight-sided jar, cherished for its signs of use and aging; around its foot, the jar's warmly yellow clay has worn through the glaze, each patch serendipitously accented by an indolently curving crack.
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In his teens, he worked as a model, which he later recalled, " Daily, I slipped on cutaway coats, silk top hats and immaculate white gloves and stood indolently in the front of a room while an artist sketched me for a catalogue ."
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Sandhawalia explores why celebrity, an honour once accorded to those who performed great feats or provided great service, is now given to entertainers, and hopes his book will encourage readers to & move away from being mere spectators who indolently look to entertainers to amuse them and return to appreciation of meritocracy and morality .
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The change between, say, Helen MacGregor's " Reclining Woman With Guitar " ( circa 1921 ), a cliched photograph of a senorita indolently strumming her instrument, to Yolanda Lopez's militant " Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe " ( 1978 ) signals a world of difference.
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The girls were overwhelmed by the importance of the famous writers, politicians, and society folk that they met . " At one of these events Beverly is approached by Charlie Blaine; she a first year reporter on her college newspaper, and he a reporter for the " Chinatown . " Down crooked streets and past darkened alleyways where crime rears its ugly head, through smoky Chinese restaurants, Charlie Blaine showed them how squalidly the people of the underworld lived . " Not only do the girls see a man who " has committed two murders [ and ] is only twenty-three " resting " indolently in a doorway, " they happen upon the " head ghost " from the Horler Mansion.
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She ( the old woman, Mrs . Compson ) had spent the better part of the morning waiting for them ( the workmen ) to arrive, yet they had not come; and when at length they drew the wagon into the yard and tied the mules beneath the scattershot shade of the water oak and climbed down amid the dust and moiling dogs to survey the house, she perceived to her dismay that they were stooges : two of whom were brothers ( Moe and Curly Howard ) and a third ( Larry Fine ) who claimed no part of their lineage but who was nonetheless of their ilk; come to wait, slack-jawed and splayfooted, before the great stair which led to the room where she ( the old woman, Mrs . Compson ) had retired; come with paints and pots of glue and damask wallpaper to cover them ( the walls ) afresh, while she ( the old woman, Mrs . Compson ) could only pray that they ( the stooges ) could refurbish and thereby sanctify it ( the foyer ) which now suspired with the age-old effluvia of honor and sacrifice and obduracy, still redolent with the wretched sweet scent of inviolability which they ( her father and her father's brothers, whose boots these stooges were unworthy to suck even so much as the laces of ) had impressed into the very grain of the cypress balustrade upon which he, Moe, the eldest, now knocks _ not obeisantly, not malevolently either, but indolently.
