The hedgehog, on the other hand, is a
dowdier creature, looking like a genetic mix-up between a porcupine and a small armadillo.
The fact that the corporate video package of blonde Helen's successful narrative is sold as a romantic-comedy (as opposed to, as David Bordwell notes, (17) the melodrama of the
dowdier story of brunette Helen) only serves to make it all the more seductive.
And, from a very different universe, here she is on the
dowdier domestic product Barbara Pym, like Lopokova only in her ability to "guard against sentimentality:' She is the writer who points out "the desire to do good without much personal inconvenience that lurks in most of us," the regrettable things said between friends and "the satisfaction which is to be got from saying precisely things of that kind," the irritation we feel "when we have made up our minds to dislike people for no apparent reason and they perform a kind action." But toward her characters she shows a creator's charity.
We also know that Prague's actions take place not in that glamorous, culture-laden Czechoslovakian capital city ("That's where real life is going on right now," a Phillips character gushes), but in the
dowdier metropolis of Budapest ("a god-forsaken paprika-stained Austrian test market").
LOS ANGELES has long been a city full of beautiful people but now a new disorder has been diagnosed which affects
dowdier travellers arriving in the city.
The female is
dowdier by comparison - with a plain brown head and grey body.
What future for the
dowdier royals in this brave new world of celebrity and class mobility?
Unusually for birds, the male looks after nesting duties, so tends to have
dowdier plumage than the splendid grey, white and chestnut vision in the shallows in front of me.
Moreover, the fact that Hollywood has turned overtly corporate over the last 30 years helps explain the
dowdier atmosphere, too.
Jan (Barlow) is the
dowdier of the two with Reid as tartier Agnes and they share a routine of regular tea breaks, gossip and friendly nagging.
And far from having a glamorous makeover, single mum Angela Kelly, 40, who scooped pounds 35,400,000 on EuroMillions seven weeks ago, looks heavier and
dowdier and is sporting a bad frizzy haircut.
More than half the components have been changed and the Spanish-built city car can no longer be thought of as just a
dowdier alternative to the Volkswagen Lupo.
I was very upset and annoyed by Julia Clarke's remarks about men leaving their wives for "
dowdier and fatter" women.
The Financial Times's Mr Cook also named and shamed Bedales in Petersfield, for the kind of pictures it forwards, saying: "Oddly, it forgets to send out photos of its male students (or
dowdier girls)."
And far from having a glamorous makeover, Scots mum Angela Kelly, 40, who scooped pounds 35,400,000 on EuroMillions seven weeks ago, looks heavier and
dowdier and is sporting a bad frizzy haircut.
