It struck the balance between being kind and being kind of annoying, how Deborah would habitually use the emergency intercom on the train to wish the guard and the driver a wonderful day.
Graham’s desire to get through a couple of chunky Dosteyeskey tomes while on holiday were dashed simply because reading them on brilliant blue days under swaying palm trees took the edge off the harsh Russian landscapes the famous author was architecting.
Bar wench Wendy used the bar wrench to bat away unwanted advances from the old, unruly men.
Janine lined up her five boys on the kitchen stools and gave them each a bowl cut. It was all about speed, steady hands and an ability to withstand burps, farts and the friction between siblings.
In a world first, a Chinese film director put to good use the near-three million surveillance cameras in her city of Shanghai to direct her first feature-length film. It won the People’s Choice award at Cannes and earned her a suspended jail term in her home country.
Inmate #45329 was many things, but he was never cold in winter, thanks to his well-fitted straitjacket.
The locksmith showed such casual proficiency cutting open Isabella’s padlock that it made her doubt the usefulness of the entire enterprise.
It was a grey, post-holiday day. Gustavo locked himself out of his computer after entering his old, expired password too many times, and promptly took another three weeks’ leave.
The pissed, country-born news anchor fell off the Christmas party yacht, then promptly sunk straight to the bottom and drowned.
After a particularly bowel-shaking bout of turbulence, all of the no-smoking lights on the airplane went out. Five minutes later, the plane was a hot-box.