Grandma's elephantine ankles, mother's hypochondria, Grandpa's grubbiness, are all experienced as her own. |
Mr Bartley loathed him not only for his tax increases, not only for his gigantic folly of a health-care reform, but more than anything for the Arkansas grubbiness that came in with him. |
That first bathe seemed to wash away all the heat and smoke and grubbiness of dear old London. |
It's a clear spray and dissolves all grubbiness away in a flash, putting those old, chalky sprays to shame. |
But at times it is the moments of personal grubbiness that stand out. |
He, on the other hand, seems to believe that a certain amount of grubbiness in politics is only to be expected and tolerated. |