- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.
- Bowls
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers. People who played bowls wore blazers.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the firm handshake and looking people straight in the eye, the blazer had originally been a symbol of trust. Because of this, it had been purloined by the less-than-trustworthy and became their preferred disguise.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun dapple our bedroom ceiling.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, I grow irritated before the first tile has been placed on the Scrabble board. This generally occurs when one of my opponents has insisted upon bringing a dictionary to the table, making it clear that he will be consulting it throughout the game.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed that I can't read.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020