Bill James's urbanely amusing Harpur and Iles novels, about high-placed British coppers who work together while hating each other's guts, have come to feel like lethal entries in the Child's Garden of Evil Jokes. |
Far from being a place very developed urbanely, the quarter of Güije is a pictorial place with abundant vegetation, mountains, narrow canyons and creeks. |
Fielding the narrator buttonholes the reader repeatedly, airs critical and ethical questions for the reader's delectation, and urbanely discusses the artifice upon which his fiction depends. |
He leaned slightly on the glass case and tipped his sunglasses urbanely, and looked at me over them. |
Kinnard Towers was floridly blond of coloring, mild of eye and urbanely soft-spoken of voice. |
Neither he nor Vattimo mentions manifest destiny or the white man's burden, but these ideas lurk disturbingly close to the surface of their urbanely arrogant prose. |