Word: meanderings
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...their share of the blame. A speeding, hit-and-run car caused the principal accident a while back, and metropolitan speed limits are not universally observed. But the number of motorists who will stop for nothing short of the Square is small compared to the students who meander with the intention of crossing, but without the patience to be careful. Drivers who aim for pedestrians are negligible compared with the pedestrians who bluff any car that strikes their fancy-before it strikes their instep. Often the bluffer forces the car to swerve and thus hit someone else...
...little pizzeria Romualdo on the Piazza della Torretta, a little way from Corso Umberto, you have to wind through narrow streets whose buildings seem to teeter perilously close to each other above, almost shutting out the clear winter sky overhead. It is a pleasant meander to a pleasant place. The unpainted wood tables and slightly rickety straight-back chairs promise the compensation of good food. The promise is kept with true Neapolitan pizza-the best water-buffalo cheese melted with just the right amount of garlic into a flour pancake, light as the finest bread...
Getting off to a smoldering start in New York City, the action manages to meander through both time and space in haphazard fashion that loses much of the plot in the resulting confusion of dash-backs and scene changes. June Allyson, daughter of a piano virtuoso gone wrong, seems inspired to follow the fingers of her unlucky father to her doom. But before she strikes too many wrong notes, the rest of the cast comes bustling to her rescue, uncovers her hidden love and chalks up another point for the old Arabian saying...
...shout banzai for General Yamashita until he was froggy. He could go to the plaza by the moat and watch, with a tingle in his buttocks, as The Emperor himself rode out on his charger White Snow, showing his unbearably beautiful self to the bowing thousands. He could meander into Hibiya Park and listen to the public gloating...
...Trollope is Angela Thirkell. She is a Trollope imitator. She has taken over his literary pace (the mild meander), his mythical landscape (Barsetshire), his preoccupation with clergymen, his ability to go on writing the same book about the same people and place without boring his fans...