Word: dickenses
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Kukrit took more than 20 years to complete his home. The living quarters consist of five one-room traditional teak houses, elevated on stilts and connected by a breezy open verandah. The sitting room features royal heirlooms such as a daybed from Kukrit's ancestor, King Rama II, while the...
If you've been to Bangkok, chances are you've done the Jim Thompson House - the gallery and museum set up in the late silk baron's former home, and a mainstay of the tourist trail. So, next time you're in town, head instead to its lesser-known but...
Aside from Charles Dickens or Franz Kafka, not many novelists get their own adjective. But there is Ballardian, in Collins English Dictionary: "Resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J.G. Ballard's novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes[an error occurred while processing this directive...
?DONALD RUMSFELD, facing the Senate Armed Services Committee, claims that "you'd have a dickens of a time trying to find instances where I've been excessively optimistic" about the Iraq war. Dickens is apparently Rummy-ese for "shockingly easy."
We do, of course. There's no point in denying that the regressive response is always an option when we're under pressure. It has been the basis of a lot of great comedy over the centuries. But, at least potentially, Adam Sandler is capable of better variations on that...