A babushka, very well dressed and apparently well off, decided that it was her duty to inform me that I shouldn't smoke. |
But if you visualise Owen as one of those red-faced rustics going about his business with a straw in his mouth, you are well off track. |
He has buried landed gentry as well as people whom he describes as being less well off. |
It is not exploitative, however, for someone to benefit from employing others if this works to the maximal benefit of the least well off. |
Ironically, the champion of the less well off appears more of a damp squib than a Catherine wheel. |
An isolated, bleak windswept wilderness it lies well off the beaten track and until recently was completely closed to foreigners. |