This is a horribly patronising movie that makes Dublin in 1967 look like a theme-park of amiable drunken wastrels and boozy squawking women in headscarves and ankle socks. |
In those dark days fathers surfaced in politics either as incipient child-abusers, or alimony-evading wastrels. |
It distinguishes them from the wastrels outside their gates and means they don't lose valuable learning time. And it is valuable. |
It's like saying your prayers to a hornpipe, thinking of her and carrying on with them wastrels. |
These children, they said, were destined to become wastrels, neurotic misfits or criminals. |
Kushner's New York is full of performers, boasters, wastrels, aesthetic activists. |