Word: sottishness
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...enable them to marry. But Brideshead revisited, Ryder found, was in as desperate a state as the rest of England. The chapel was closed. Lady Marchmain was dead. Lord Brideshead was married to the widow of an admiral who had also collected matchboxes. Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery. And on the eve of World War II, wicked old Lord Marchmain himself came home to England to die. Propped up in a massive Renaissance bed, his Italian mistress and an oxygen cylinder beside him, he rambled in & out of delirium...
...into the April sky. The winey sunlight warmed his gouty limbs and made his head contract pleasantly. Suddenly the Vagabond turned and frowned at the disgusting clutter of his room. He saw the remnants of his Vintage 99 (99 cents), his pictures awry, his clothes in disarray. Winter and sottish hibernation. . . Turning again to the window and with a last fine whiff of April morning, the Vagabond strode with Merrimanly grandeur to the shower...
...back in 1820, Camila was the daughter of Andalusian gypsies who had to leave Spain because Daddy had knifed a fellow-gypsy, a thing not done. In England her father sold Camila to a sottish squire who lived in Devonshire because he had been caught card-sharping in London. The squire's wife was an embittered dipsomaniac, his children unmannerly little devils; the house was not very orderly. Nevertheless Camila liked it. As she grew up she fell in love with one of her foster- brothers, Evelyn, who was beautiful. Unfortunately he turned out to be a provincial esthete...
...half-truth in place of the rending whole. In spite of the unbending character of his hero, Arthur Train makes an interesting indictment of political chicanery. Although the great god of coincidence may be a trifle overworked, one nevertheless gets the distinct impression that justice is a some-what sottish spirit with a bald, perspiring head and an opportunely winking...