| 单词 | Dickensian |
| 例句 | Has June also got a fondness for sneaking your leftover curry out of the refrigerator in the dead of night like a Dickensian street urchin? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A more important, nearly Dickensian question: 'Who do you want to be?’ Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z And if I lived in Dickensian England, I would have been thrown into Bedlam, which is more than just a description of madness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “The Dickensian orphan boy was Pip from Great Expectations, and he was carrying the letter ‘E,’ making him Pip-E or, you know, Pippi.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I agree with you, and like Melissa Clark's recipe idea, but not her suggestion that plain oatmeal is grey or Dickensian! Yes, Adults Can Have Chocolate for Breakfast. Really. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Among his other commissions is Dickensian, a series billed as "bringing the world of Dickens to life in a drama populated by vivid characters from his classical books". Poldark to return to BBC screens 2013-05-09T11:53:52Z In Midnight is a Place, the mood is Dickensian and über-real, dramatically capturing the relentless drive of industrialisation and capitalism, the language richly inventive. Teen book club: Lydia Syson's top 10 historical novels 2012-11-29T16:39:14Z Bookbinders capture souls in this fantasy’s bleak Dickensian world. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z But Dickensian oppositions of incredulity and belief, darkness and light, surely applied when the music of Morton Feldman gently swelled once again at Bargemusic in Brooklyn on Thursday evening. Music Review: Blair McMillen Plays Morton Feldman at Bargemusic - Review 2011-12-05T22:44:34Z The club’s artistic director, James Pearson, my next pianist, turns out to be a broad-shouldered man with some Dickensian foppishness and a radically unleashed presence on the piano. A ‘Girl Singer’ and Her Extra Hair Hit the Road 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z But he never escaped the damage he suffered during his Dickensian childhood. Review | An unvarnished look at the troubled life of novelist Robert Stone 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z As such, throughout season five the term "Dickensian" is used in a mocking manner to pour scorn on the journalistic values of senior Baltimore Sun editor James Whiting. The Wire re-up: season five, episode eight ? the Dickensian aspects 2010-04-05T23:15:00Z The premiere reveals the reasons for her mission of vengeance, and they're positively Dickensian. "Revenge" is a dish that serves itself in bits and pieces 2011-09-21T20:22:00Z Mr. Marsan, 42, was in the relatively recent adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “Little Dorrit” by the , and there’s a Dickensian cast to his own history. Eddie Marsan Has a Busy Acting Career 2010-08-06T04:13:00Z Durham city centre, Dickensian Festival , Rochester, Saturday, Sunday Parades, market treats, theatre, magic, music, the Hoi Polloi Ball and a Cabinet of Curiosities wheeled around town, all with a witty Charles Dickens theme. This week's new events 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z I had not comprehended the film's poise, its Dickensian breadth, its uncanny moments, the impress of a fable behind our "cotton-wool living", or its capacity to touch a kind of joy. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z As Present helps guide Clint through his Dickensian journey, each step of the way Clint turns the tables, unpacking Present’s existential crisis and the past he himself has tried to avoid. ‘Spirited’ Review: A Whole Lot of Humbug 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Serpell is a natural social novelist, capable of conjuring a Dickensian range of characters with a painterly eye for detail. Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Find it in Cognac’s backstreets and then stumble into its Dickensian office, with clerks bent over antique sloping desks. 10 of the best cognac distillers, tours and tastings, France 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z I always felt there was something very Dickensian about it. Depressed by the news? ‘Annie’s’ creator explains why one song still resonates. 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z He knows we do not suffer Dickensian poverty any more, but I think he leaves out the stuff that has got better since he went to Canada in the 60s. Broken Britain? Read returning natives before Joan Collins 2011-08-25T08:56:29Z “The director has produced a colorful, affecting collage of Dickensian moods and motifs,” Mr. Scott wrote, “a movie that elicits an overwhelming desire to plunge into 900 pages of 19th-century prose.” Douglas McGrath, Playwright, Filmmaker and Actor, Dies at 64 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Screenwriter Mark Frost, who worked with David Lynch on the game-changing Twin Peaks, was describing his “Dickensian” ambitions for the humble TV drama long before David Simon started work on The Wire. Once upon a time from America: how US television took over our screens 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Satirical puns leap from the pages of this story about a young hero on the streets of Dickensian London. Dodger by Terry Pratchett - review 2013-02-08T12:00:00Z “I’m going to put a curtain up and have her in that, but when I think about that, it’s Dickensian,” she told me. The great London property squeeze 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z The show is not typically "Dickensian," as Holmes told the press. Left hanging by Dickens' 'Edwin Drood'? 2 takes coming our way 2012-04-04T20:36:04Z But the judge in the case, with the Dickensian name of Omar Noose, all but orders him to go ahead. John Grisham Brings Back His Hero Jake Brigance for a Third Case 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Pearson supplies the character with a Dickensian back story, but Maugham's tale is what is. Michael John LaChiusa's musical 'Rain' is just too outdated to remain relevant 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z The aroma, the warmth in the hand, the nutty flavor all conjure one of the more cuddly images of a Dickensian world. Perspective | Blight wiped out the American chestnut. Parallel efforts are close to bringing it back. 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Yet Material World provides almost no anecdotes about George’s pre-Beatle life, other than that he went to the same Dickensian boys’ school as Paul McCartney. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z Chunks of Dickensian dialogue, like “decrease the surplus population” and “who made lame beggars walk and blind men see,” remain largely intact. ‘Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol’ Back in Prime Time 2012-12-20T23:24:19Z After Noah ran for help, the dead descended upon Tyreese – in more of a Dickensian fashion than the usual voracious one. 'The Walking Dead' Recap: Another Road Trip, Another Surprising Turn 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z But after checking on friends and family, stocking up and canceling everything, I found myself someplace else entirely: in the sweat-seamed stews of Sarah Waters’s gripping Dickensian masterpiece “Fingersmith.” Celeste Ng, Ann Patchett, Min Jin Lee and Others on the Books That Bring Them Comfort 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The Gringotts goblins in the first film are Dickensian, more like caricatures, which served that film well. The Sorcerers of Stagecraft 2011-07-08T16:09:28Z A million children under 10 in England and Scotland are facing “Dickensian” material deprivation during the festive season, the charity says. Why aren’t we outraged by child poverty in Britain and the US? | Mary O’Hara 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z The coalition will never be forgiven if it creates Dickensian social conditions: Dickens himself will bring them to book. How Dickens and Dor? forecast our winter of discontent 2010-12-17T13:11:47Z Their story is as improbable as it is Dickensian in its twists and turns and sudden reversals of fortune. Books of The Times: Bruce Wagner’s ‘Empty Chair’ Novellas Explore Guru Territory 2013-12-16T23:03:03Z Calcutta is "more Dickensian than London ever was". John Mullan on The Great Railway Bazaar – Guardian book club 2013-06-07T17:00:01Z Da Capo, who will publish the book in the U.S., says the book is a "modern Dickensian tale." Never mind the bollocks, it's Sex Pistol Steve Jones' memoir 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z If this sounds Dickensian, the comparison is apt. 'The Virgin Cure': hard times for innocents in late 1800s Manhattan 2012-07-03T21:03:08Z James Stewart stars in Capra's Dickensian tale, as the disillusioned smalltown guy contemplating suicide: an unlikely angel called Clarence comes to earth to show him what things would have been like without him. The best films for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z The central figure in the book is Joe Rantz, who endured a Dickensian childhood before being abandoned by his impoverished family and left to fend for himself. Review: Story of 1936 rowing team's quest for gold 2013-06-03T12:54:08Z It's almost like looking at a far distant period drama – like a Dickensian drama sometimes. Pippa Harris interview: 'People quite liked being made to cry' 2012-07-22T18:06:01Z Instead of a functional attraction, I found a vaguely Dickensian construction site. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z Such dreams come close to the festive Dickensian political vision once exposed by George Orwell: that everything would be all right if there could only be a "change of heart". Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z Your new novel, “The Rise and Fall of Great Powers,” is wonderfully Dickensian. Tom Rachmann: “I consider myself a realist – with a sprinkling of nostalgia” 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z There were few compromises, and I earned a Dickensian reputation with Madeleine's aunts for my complete ban on bubble gum and restrictions on how much television could be watched. Now we are three: me, my daughter and my new fiancee 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z McDermott has described the childhood that followed his mother’s death, when he was five, as Dickensian, marred by poverty and violence. Dylan McDermott Wants to Be a Good Guy for a Change 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z It includes many renderings of workhorses and laborers from his post-“Raft” trips to England, which indulge his longstanding fascination with equine themes while revealing an almost Dickensian interest in London street life. Museum & Gallery Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z With none of the late designer’s more weird and disturbing elements — Dickensian canes or patterns of bones — the show still expressed a historical Englishness and glowed with the quality of material and craftsmanship. Special Report: Fashion: Illuminating Shades of Gray 2011-01-19T19:14:24Z But circling around the ring are characters who once would be called Dickensian and nowadays are likened to people in “The Sopranos” or “The Wire.” | 'Lights Out': With a Life on the Ropes, Seeking Redemption in the Ring 2011-01-10T23:08:16Z In the new show there is anger over government incompetence and neglect, but this is not a Dickensian exploration of failed institutions like “The Wire.” | 'Treme': David Simon?s New HBO Series: After Katrina 2010-04-08T21:43:00Z Built into its Dickensian plot is a certain view of the world. The Claustrophobic Paranoia of Walt Whitman’s Lost Novel 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z We often use the word "Dickensian" to sum up this period when what we really mean is "Cruikshankian". Steve Bell on The Worship of Bacchus by George Cruikshank 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z Or possibly the Dickensian situation, where gaseous floridity of language occurred because one was paid by the word. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Journalists, beware. Use this phrase and he’ll call you out. 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z A. They do still have this strange Dickensian view of Christmas over here. Nick Lowe Embraces the Christmas Spirit 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Adiga’s debut novel told a Dickensian story about the rise of an ambitious driver in a rigged system and won the Man Booker Prize in 2008. New this week: ‘The White Tiger,’ Salt-N-Pepa movie & Rhye 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Guede was a Dickensian character, a poor immigrant from Ivory Coast adopted, then rejected, by one of Perugia’s richest families. Between Journalist and Advocate: The Amanda Knox Case 2011-10-07T23:33:56Z Her town house showrooms “were glamorous in a peculiarly Dickensian way, with a creaking cage staircase and an Ali Baba-esque twinkle of precious metal,” Mr. Constable writes. Antiques: Third-Century Cutlery at Auction; Schoolgirls’ Samplers 2013-05-23T19:54:39Z When Stephanie Harvey was eventually rumbled, years after the article had appeared in the Dickensian, the editor Malcolm Andrews started pursuing Ms Harvey to discover how she could have got it so wrong. The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax 2013-07-10T16:35:00Z Buss died before he could finish the painting, so only Dickens and the characters closest to him are in color; the other characters are faint black-and-white sketches, filling the air in a Dickensian miasma. The Bookish Pleasures of a Henry James Yearbook 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z As Paganini fiddles his way from Dickensian tavern to Covent Garden, frenzied women follow, either protesting or swooning over his believed Devil-derived talent. ‘The Devil’s Violinist,’ a Niccolò Paganini Biopic 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z I say I proclaim myself book club dictator and ram Albert Camus' Exile and the Kingdom down your Dickensian throats. Where will the reading group revolution take us? 2011-08-16T08:41:20Z History is all intrigues and executions, beautiful ineffectual ladies and poisoning queens, love-stories and villainies, steeped in Dickensian melodrama and embroidered with the theatrical effects of a Bleak House or an Oliver Twist. Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Buffalo Trace, a few miles north in Frankfort, reflects bourbon’s more realistic history as a big rough-and-tumble Dickensian enterprise. Exploring Kentucky Bourbon at Its Source 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z It has tolerated working conditions and wages that in some cases approach the Dickensian. Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters? 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “Put a guy in to do exactly what I would do — with a much better accent so that there would be a Dickensian quality, a show hosted by a very smart orphan.” John Oliver Introduces ‘Last Week Tonight’ on HBO 2014-04-23T12:58:15Z They all advance a particular moral view of the universe and operate in the Dickensian tradition of morality tales and social critiques dressed in the guise of realism. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z Without diminishing the stark realities of abject squalor Ms. Boo’s agile prose, wry tone and surprising upbeat theatrics are Dickensian in the best sense of that word. Janet Maslin’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:46Z The crumbling house is a place of false corridors and concealed doors leading to the offices of phantom companies with phantom names: Squeers & Trotter, Barnacle & Sons, Honeythunder & Grimwig — all Dickensian appellations. Taking Dickens to the Dark Side 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Vidal’s dark wit almost single-handedly awakened the American historical novel from its costumed midcentury slumbers, but his Schuyler is also capable of a Dickensian warmth. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Her popular novel, “Kyetse,” a word that means something like destiny, is a Dickensian tale of a young woman who is trafficked across Bhutan. A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Dickensian in scope, this is a great achievement from an exemplar of the art. Time Traveling at the Toronto Film Festival 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z He is British, and tells a nearly Dickensian tale of his early days with the stiffest of upper lips. Sea of Love: A Father, His Daughter and the Boat He Made for Her 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z “Telling someone that college is not right for him seems harsh and classist, vaguely Dickensian,” Professor X writes, “as though we were sentencing him to a life in the coal mines.” Books of The Times: An Academic Hit Man Brings More Bad News 2011-04-05T21:12:11Z “He saw our living conditions as positively Dickensian. He nicknamed me ‘Bud’ and gave us peanut butter and chewing gum and a percolator. Terence Davies on avoiding Hollywood A-listers: 'I don't cast big names' 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z But her superb Mrs. Lovett is Dickensian in the truest sense of the word, a portrait of an ordinary middle-class woman who believes she believes in the Victorian pieties she pays lip service to. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z From the depths of a Dickensian blizzard beckons a belting tale of redemption and love. Christmas TV highlights 2010-12-24T08:00:02Z There is the account of Mr. Martien’s Dickensian childhood in the Belgian port city of Ghent. Review: ‘War and Turpentine,’ a Grandfather’s Painful Life 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Just as Dickens – how could he? – never wrote a Dickensian sentence, Kafka was infinitely far away from the shorthand version of himself. The Investigation by Philippe Claudel – review 2013-02-07T09:00:02Z It’s a contrived and heavily stage-managed premise — but contrived in a Dickensian sort of way with coincidences that reverberate with philosophical significance. The Handmaid’s Thriller: In ‘The Testaments,’ There’s a Spy in Gilead 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z York, where I grew up, is picturesque at any time, but at Christmas it’s stupidly charming: a Dickensian vision of twinkling lights strung across narrow paved streets. My grimly inappropriate boyfriend dumped me in the pub | Emma Beddington 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z In “Skinnamarink,” a new play from the unpredictable troupe known as Little Lord, school is a Dickensian dystopia filtered through the skewed aesthetics of Tim Burton. Review: In ‘Skinnamarink,’ Follow Instructions. Or Else. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Martin’s life story reads like a 19th-century novelette, beginning in Dickensian poverty and culminating in an apotheosis of Balzacian social triumph. Art Review: John Martin's Greatness and High Kitsch 2011-09-30T11:30:09Z "I wanted to try to balance the cheerful nature of most of the songs with the darker Dickensian edge," Evans says. Director Evans revisits Oliver! 2013-12-17T08:30:50Z His tale is Dickensian, but also Kafkaesque, since he is at the mercy of powerful forces beyond his ken or control. | 'Project Nim': Some Humans and the Chimp They Loved and Tormented 2011-07-07T22:30:06Z And the exterminator enters, once a month: a person with a Dickensian grotty aura about him that feels oddly comradely. My secret hoarding shame: I lived with my trash. It was time to throw it all away 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z But it is easy to forgive the author his Dickensian affection for coincidence. Hot town 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Iannucci adds his own playfulness and pacing to Dickens’s famously long tale, trimming the story down, peppering it with contemporary humor and charm, and giving the Dickensian setting a sumptuous visual glaze. What’s on TV This Week: ‘144’ and ‘Pride’ 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Richard Hudson’s sets and costumes perfectly complement the choreography, giving us a partly caricatured Dickensian world that changes unexpectedly into the silver birches of a Russian winterscape. Dance Review: A ?Nutcracker? Sprouts Alter Egos 2010-12-24T22:30:03Z The script was substituted by Blackadder's Christmas Carol, a Dickensian variant on the formula. Blackadder marches again and Zach Galifianakis votes for Boris 2012-10-10T08:11:05Z Which brings us to the period when the Dickensian horror of Tiffany Haddish’s adolescence resumes. Tiffany Haddish: on Girls Trip, saving the Hollywood comedy and the Dickensian horror of her life story 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Born Ruby Stevens in that borough on July 16, 1907, she survived a Dickensian childhood. DVDs: Six Barbara Stanwyck Films 2010-04-24T02:40:00Z But behind the pretty-boy looks could be found a dramatically potent combination of naked ambition and deep vulnerability, both likely products of his Dickensian childhood in the Bronx. Tony Curtis, Hollywood Icon, Dies at 85 2010-09-30T11:11:00Z Doubts about the authenticity of the Dickens-Dostoevsky meeting spread, retractions were made, the Dickensian had egg on its face. The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax 2013-07-10T16:35:00Z In fact, I was seeing Ghost – a sculpture by Rachel Whiteread that I first encountered, what, 20 years ago, in the London whose Dickensian chill it reproduces. Rachel Whiteread is Britain's greatest living artist 2012-12-14T13:09:13Z “Gambit” never quite gets back to the charm of its Dickensian opening chapter, though, and it gets thinner as it goes along. ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Review: Coming of Age, One Move at a Time 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z There is something voluptuous in the rage inspired by the kind of meanness we are used to calling Dickensian. | 'Jane Eyre': Radiant Spirit Blossoms in Barren Land 2011-03-10T22:30:15Z He was the youngest of ten children, and he had something of a Dickensian upbringing. Postscript: The Festive Genius of Juan Gabriel, 1950-2016 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Standing this week in the atrium of Christie’s Rockefeller Center gallery, the press — a thing of dark, Dickensian iron musculature — looked like a rough guest who had shown up for tea. Kelmscott Press, a Thing of Iron Musculature, Is to Be Sold 2013-12-05T15:00:01Z By turns Dickensian, Marxist and dystopian, it's a movie as deliriously unclassifiable as it is expertly focused in its desire to provoke and entertain. 'White God' gives the child-dog fable a thrilling twist 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z It turns out there is a crowded field of Dickensian carolers, apparently inspired by “A Christmas Carol,” and it has sometimes been difficult for the Dickens’ Victorian Carolers to stand out. After 40 Years of Fa-La-Laing, a New York Caroler Hands In His Bells 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z It mixes fun, candy-coated musical theater crowd-pleasers like “Food, Glorious Food” and “Consider Yourself” with darker Dickensian themes including poverty and domestic violence. ‘Oliver!’ Returns, With Darker Twists Intact 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z Both siblings remain aristocratic enough to maintain an air of superiority and just ironic enough to mock their Dickensian condition. ‘No. 4 Imperial Lane’: A powerful elegy for lost love and lost empire 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z After David learns a long-hidden secret, Ebenezer — quite the Dickensian rascal — conspires to have the lad tricked onto a brig sailing for the Carolinas, where he will be sold into indentured slavery. Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z The wonderfully Dickensian Farmiloe warehouse building, which hosts a design exhibition, is one of the event stars, though there are also film shows, art installations, seminars and debates, all design-themed. Events picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Mr. Franzen adroitly dovetails these story lines, using large dollops of Dickensian coincidence and multiple plot twists to construct suspense and to entertain. Review: In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Hits a New Octave 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z James’s ghost stories aren’t really cozy or humorless; they can be quite grisly — a necromancer tears out the hearts of small children — and many of the characters are comically Dickensian. Review | ‘The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom’ beautifully demonstrates the evolution of a genre 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The connection is apt, for Capra's villains are unabashedly Dickensian, his eccentrics too; even the raven that haunts his 1940s movies recalls the mysterious Grip from Barnaby Rudge. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z It was like Disney’s Haunted Mansion: thick drapes, creaking halls, many, many stairs, plus “discretion,” exaggerated in a Dickensian way to mean something more like “occult secrecy.” I managed a Washington, D.C., brothel: sex secrets from the nation’s capital 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z One was the Dickensian leader of a group of petty thieves. Troubled Thursday: Christopher Lee is among a trio of film legends to die 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Harry, too, is Dickensian, but more like one of Dickens’s monstrous, red-eyed lawyers: He is cruel, peremptory and, with his dyed hair and prissy bow tie, dandyish in his self-regard. Review: ‘Hangmen,’ Offering the Last Word in Gallows Humor 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z I’ve said that nobody writes like Dickens anymore, but it’s still possible for a writer to attain a Dickensian effect. Top 10 Non-Dickens Books for Dickens Fans 2012-02-05T20:06:36Z One is set in a Dickensian orphanage; another ends with characters jumping into a New York yellow cab. 10 Ways to Tell if Your ‘Nutcracker’ Is Traditional 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z However, there is an incongruity between the lively character he creates and the Dickensian fate to which he later subjects her. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z It’s fair to note that not all big novels with lots of eccentric characters are necessarily Dickensian, and not all novels written in garbled syntax are necessarily Joycean. Review: ‘A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing,’ by Eimear McBride Three New York judges sentenced him, in what now sounds like a bad Dickensian joke, to four months in the workhouse. It’s worse than Jerry Seinfeld says: PC is undermining free speech, expression, liberties 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z As Ms. Thompson ponders this problem she also provides a propulsive narrative, chiefly by ending many of her chapters on Dickensian cliffhangers. Books of The Times: ‘The Humanity Project,’ Jean Thompson’s Latest Novel 2013-04-17T20:28:21Z As if to drive that point home, Wolfe began work on another novel, even bigger, even better, even more Dickensian in its scope and ambition. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe saved American fiction 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z There’s some visual wit and pop sparkle in the mildly Dickensian tale of how Cruella DeVil, the notorious pooch-hater of “One Hundred and One Dalmatians,” came to be that way. ‘Cruella’ Review: A Disney Villain Gets a Backstory. It’s Spotty. 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z Over the years albums have been issued, contested and withdrawn, as claims and counterclaims, Dickensian in their complexity, flew. Music: Beyond the Jimi Hendrix Experience 2010-02-27T03:40:00Z The triangular frame was retained for “The Little Match Girl Passion,” directed by Ms. Zambello with Dickensian garb designed by Beth Goldenberg. Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z Phoenix’s best outfit might be his own checkered suits, bringing a certain Dickensian aplomb to his brief performance as a bearded homeless man. Why “Paddington 2″ deserves Oscar nominations in at least five categories 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Jones survived a Dickensian childhood, self-hate and a brain injury from boxing that resulted in temporal lobe epilepsy. Thom Jones, Janitor Turned Acclaimed Author, Dies at 71 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z The joke of the election results was supposed to be centered on Trump’s final, Dickensian comeuppance, but that, of course, was not so. Is Late-Night Political Comedy Useless? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z In the end, the play is more after-school special than Dickensian exposé. A homeless boy with a rich fantasy life is centerstage in SCT's 'Danny' 2012-10-26T15:46:03Z A busy TV actor, you may recognise Mark Stanley from Loves, Lies & Records, Broken, Dickensian or as a loyal brother of the Night’s Watch in Game of Thrones. From Alden Ehrenreich to Zazie Beetz: the 40 rising film stars of 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z There are also elements of Dickens, as befit Ms. Walls’s truly Dickensian girlhood, and Lewis Carroll, who knew how to make illogic seem perfectly sane. Books of The Times: ‘The Silver Star,’ a Novel by Jeannette Walls 2013-05-29T20:54:36Z "Creed III" features an underclass story and there is a Dickensian element to it. "Like photographing sculpture": Cinematographer reveals what makes "Creed III" look so good 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Dickensian England was the major target of early Mormon proselytism. Mitt Romney: Disgrace to Mormonism 2012-10-28T23:00:00Z Dressed in white robes and forbidden to speak “pagan languages,” the boys are viciously whipped at the whim of this Dickensian monster. Review: ‘Embrace of the Serpent,’ Where Majesty Meets Monstrosity 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Tastes change, and a truly Dickensian 21st century novel would be as weird a cultural experience as a sudden rash of non-ironic Mondrians. Why to Read Dickens Now (Or Watch Him on TV) 2012-01-26T19:39:00Z Such stylish economy may downplay Pullman's Dickensian anger, but, in Ludovico's adaptation and David Watson's English version, it effectively conveys the pathos of the outcast. I Was a Rat! – review 2013-02-17T13:49:00Z Fennell’s seen the erotic thrillers, studied her Hitchcock and possibly read her Patricia Highsmith, and gets that if you name your main character Oliver Quick he’s obligated to do something at least arguably Dickensian. ‘Saltburn’ Review: A Promising Young Man Takes a Seedy Turn 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z Unknown to Maddox - but known to readers thanks to a Dickensian narrator who sees all - Tulkinghorn has other plans that could threaten the young detective if he uncovers the whole truth. 'Solitary House' a mystery with a dose of Dickens 2012-04-30T18:38:09Z I’d been walking down Chapel Street in New Haven, en route to the train station from our last rehearsal, when I saw on the sidewalk some holiday carolers wearing Dickensian garb. Whiffenpoofs Are Singing for Their Supper 2013-01-12T00:10:26Z I’d characterize the book’s Dickensian aspect more simply: it depicts a life lived in a pathologically, brazenly, unrepentantly, systematically, and casually racist country. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z More recently, he has been accused of running his latest writing venture as a Dickensian sweatshop. James Frey ignores publishing houses to release new book through art gallery 2011-03-15T17:38:01Z Without exception Miller’s minor characters spring to life with Dickensian vividness. Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ Begins With an Ending 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z She will write of a "Dickensian childhood in rural Indiana," and her struggles with everything from postpartum depression to religious faith. Florence Henderson signs deal to write memoir 2011-01-19T17:35:08Z With minimal dialogue and graceful editing, Mr. Davis and the screenwriter Luke Davies convey the Dickensian dimensions of Saroo’s situation. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z This begins a chase sequence of Dickensian parkour in the streets of Braavos, a sort of “American Ninja Warrior” with mud puddles and ox carts. “Game of Thrones”: The Things We Do for Love 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z But somewhere along the way, that Dickensian ideal fell by the wayside. Dickens, refrigeration and New World turkey: Behind the decline of the traditional Christmas goose 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z This is how, she explains, a Dickensian ghost would dance — like the kind that apparently haunted her childhood home. Jenny Slate is fearlessly silly in first Netflix stand-up special 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Dickensian Web characters have every reason to love Google. The Medium: Art-Theft Blogs 2010-06-04T16:35:00Z These gleaming cities are becoming the most Dickensian locales in the land, where homelessness and squalor mix with luxury high-rises and toney restaurants. Amazon and America’s real divide 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Here are the circumstances of Mom’s disappearance, just to give a sampling of the book’s Dickensian extremes: Mom seems to have wandered through Seoul until she became dirty, disheveled and sick. Books of The Times: A Mother?s Devotion, a Family?s Tearful Regrets 2011-03-30T22:25:15Z The movie’s procession of gnarly faces and hunched postures suggests a gallery of Dickensian caricatures drawn by Hogarth. At New York Film Festival, History and Detectives 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The expansion of law enforcement paralleled the rise of Black elected officials, creating a Dickensian fork in the road for much of the African-American community. Recasting ‘Riots’ as Black Rebellions 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z So I knew that there was a longevity and it had a big, crazy, Dickensian sprawling feel to it. ArtsBeat: He's Created a Monster: Alan Ball Talks 'True Blood' 2011-06-17T14:49:32Z A Broadway hit in 1912, and adapted several times for the movies, this play by Bayard Veiller and revived by the Metropolitan Playhouse aspires to a Dickensian blend of melodrama and social justice. ‘Within the Law’ Is a Revival Focusing on Social Justice 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z In other words, Dickensian in the fullest sense. ‘The Invisible Woman,’ About Charles Dickens’s Mistress 2013-12-24T16:57:59Z There is something almost Dickensian about those foreclosure courts. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z And, with Dickensian generosity, Bouman extends this kind of characterization to the world beyond the human. Book review: ‘Dry Bones in the Valley,’ exciting debut thriller by Tom Bouman Soon Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington and even Hamilton's future wife, Eliza, are adding their poetic encapsulations of Hamilton's Dickensian childhood. 'Hamilton's' revolutionary power is in its hip-hop musical numbers 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, he suggests that “Lady Sings the Blues” is “Dickensian”: The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Yet Material World provides almost no anecdotes about George's pre-Beatle life, other than that he went to the same Dickensian boys' school as Paul McCartney. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-05T14:20:00Z The multifarious cast members combine raw psychological realism with Dickensian grotesqueness. Review: Hungarians Bare Their Dark Side in ‘Our Secrets’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z In “The Mars Room” the neglected become the focus, and it’s apparent that Kushner’s imagination, almost Dickensian in its amplitude, also embraces some of Dickens’s reformist zeal. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers a Blackly Comic Take on Prison Life 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Thankfully it never came to that, although my father and I once had this ridiculous pipe dream that we would read for the bar together, studying in an attic like a pair of Dickensian codgers. Hugh Bonneville: ‘I’m raging against the dying of the light by buying a convertible’ 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z A disillusioned Ghost of Christmas Present, played by Will Ferrell, helps guide a cynical marketing executive through his Dickensian journey. Day 10: The Secrets of Being Santa 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z “By inflating a Dickensian tale to cosmic proportions, the enormous production seemed to imply that the audience were guilty of the Victorian injustices that led to Sweeney’s murderous acts of revenge,” Mr. Rich wrote. Hal Prince, Giant of Broadway and Reaper of Tonys, Dies at 91 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z This is a world of pitiable deprivation, not a zoo of freakish Dickensian monsters. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z Here you have it - another piece of evidence pointing to the return to a "Dickensian" lifestyle in New York. Mayor de Blasio’s Plan for Parks Needs to Grow 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z He’s a man physically framed for the Dickensian world: huge-eyed and hangdog, at once over the top and subtle, sinister and comic. Bah, humbug! The many faces of Scrooge 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Just for starters, Mr. Rakoff enlivens his portrait of Margaret, the first colorful character in a parade of them, with a Dickensian childhood too bouncy to be truly horrifying. Books of The Times: David Rakoff’s ‘Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish’ 2013-07-24T21:06:59Z Journalists she had been cultivating for some time started to publish stories about her, with Dickensian embellishments about her childhood, already so poignant that embellishments would seem unnecessary, supplied by Marilyn herself. America’s original California girl 2012-08-06T20:33:00Z Steampunk, for example, is attractive precisely because it rejects the disembodied corporatism of the digital world; still, the vision of the future in the film “Snowpiercer” is both refreshingly analogue and brutally Dickensian. A Return to the Nostalgia of “The X-Files” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Waters layers this Dickensian novel with flashbacks and multiple points of view to stun us with shocking twists and reversals throughout. Lenore Appelhans's top 10 books featuring flashbacks 2013-01-17T12:35:11Z “D” is packed with Dickensian absurdity involving procedures and forms and regulations. Review | Michel Faber’s ‘D’ is a quirky adventure for readers young and old 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z "Gray and Dickensian" -- that is so disrespectful to oatmeal! Yes, Adults Can Have Chocolate for Breakfast. Really. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z To an outsider, rural Communist life might sound like a Dickensian story set in China. How chef Peter Chang stopped running and started empire-building 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Sometimes there's a Dickensian cosiness to it all, as if all the suffering isn't quite real. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 2010-06-24T20:30:00Z In reality, it was an era when slavery was legal, women didn’t have the vote, and wage inequality created Dickensian conditions for the working class. The 5 most fevered overreactions to “50 Shades of Grey” 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z His sudden fall from that pinnacle, when the feds come after the company, is one of those wrenching Dickensian tumbles that's meant to reveal a character's true nature. "How Do You Know": A deliciously messy holiday rom-com 2010-12-17T01:30:00Z This week: Characters Dickensian and Runyonesque will appear on local stages. L.A. theater listings, Nov. 29-Dec. 6: 'Guys and Dolls' and more 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z You can feel Ms. Packer chafing to get out of that chair and do something, anything, and she sometimes leans toward Dickensian gargoylishness. Critic’s Notebook: Watching ‘Mother Courage’ and ‘Beauty Queen of Leenane’ 2013-08-19T21:54:46Z Given its title and subject matter, you might expect it to be positively Dickensian. The Great Unexpected by Sharon Creech - review 2012-12-21T22:55:04Z The park reduced performers’ work shifts, dropped managerial positions and even turned off the Dickensian gas lamps. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z In fact, the novel presents an almost Dickensian, top-to-bottom portrait of Melbourne in its Victorian heyday, when the population of the “London of the South” approached half a million. ‘Blockbuster!’: The strange tale of the best-selling crime novel of the 19th century 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Froseth makes a fine, natural impression as Nan; as presented here, the character is almost Dickensian in her selflessness, but the actress makes her feel fresh without being cloying. Review: 'The Buccaneers' may be more 'Bridgerton' than Edith Wharton 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z He believes the "Dickensian" treatment she received at a church-run home for unmarried mothers in the 1960s and the lifelong trauma of the death of her son there, led to her suicide. St Monica's Kendal: 'My wife killed herself over church-home trauma' 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of people flock to the Medway towns every December for the Rochester Dickensian Christmas Festival. Medway: Christmas lights cancelled by council 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z The luxurious 1966 “Annie, Poured From Maple Syrup,” a tour de force of Conceptual painting, renders the name of the Dickensian American comics heroine Little Orphan Annie in a golden liquid script. Review: In his rapturous MoMA retrospective, L.A. artist Ed Ruscha gives New York School art a witty blow 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z It was a Dickensian environment, one in which the workers, mostly young boys, were bathed in blood. Can a TikTok campaign from Africa help this teen reach the majors? 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z A union said changes being imposed by Shaw Healthcare were "Dickensian" and hit some of the lowest paid workers. Powys: Care home firm 'bullied' staff to accept new conditions 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z Given the Dickensian pace of court proceedings in New York, Trump’s trial won’t begin until next year, right in the middle of the election campaign. Column: Trump's campaigns inject chaos into our politics. Now add criminal trials to the mix 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z The candidate must be dedicated to a single-minded goal: Make life slightly less Dickensian for us in every way possible. Commentary: Now hiring! Low-profile art world family seeks personal assistant 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z As if all that weren’t enough, Musk’s heartless treatment of his Twitter employees — a pre-Christmas firing with no severance pay — was downright Dickensian. I bought a Tesla to help the environment — now I’m embarrassed to drive it 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Dahl’s books duly supply all these, as well as plenty of rowdy, Dickensian gusto and tall-tale exaggeration. Review | Roald Dahl is as troubling as he is beloved. Can’t he be both? 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z In that letter, Unison's Regional Organiser Mark Turner said he was disappointed "Dickensian approaches are still being used". Powys: Care home firm 'bullied' staff to accept new conditions 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z Before construction began on La Casa, there had been an almost Dickensian situation on that block. Perspective | Chronically homeless men have found a home at La Casa in the District 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z In recent times, about half of Christmas Days have seen some snowfall recorded somewhere in the UK but the widespread coverings evoked by Dickensian Christmas scenes are now a rare event. White Christmas forecast for Scotland as weather warning issued 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The children came from parish workhouses, some orphans, some just abandoned, and they lived in a dormitory next to the mill and served as “apprentices,” working 70-hour weeks in a Dickensian life of indentured servitude. Britain saves ‘grandparent’ of all modern skyscrapers, built in 1796 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The story is just as imaginative as its protagonist, involving spycraft, World War II and Dickensian children carving wondrous worlds out of the mundane. 10 bookseller-approved giftable books this holiday season 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z These days, most people think of Port only during the holiday season, when relentless reruns of “A Christmas Carol” make us feel Dickensian, and our pie consumption increases. How Port wine became an English obsession — and our dessert drink of choice 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Wambsgans offers a retort — one that, in Dickensian fashion, shows how power in the media might really work when no one is watching. Review | Traditional journalism gave birth to HBO. Then HBO crushed journalism. 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z White phosphorus also won grim Dickensian fame in the 19th century, when it was added to the tips of matchsticks to produce “strike anywhere” matches. The Sad Fate of the Ancient, Well-Shelled Mariners 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Admittedly, calling Atkinson “Dickensian” is, by now, something of a cliche. Review | For fun-seekers, Kate Atkinson’s new novel is just the thing 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z They lived right by the sea in Brighton in a fishing community with genuinely Dickensian levels of poverty, just at the time these great Regency villas were sprouting up all around them. Richard Osman is perfectly at ease pretending to be a 78-year-old woman 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z The oligarchs, as they did in the 19th century, exploit workers, including child labor, in Dickensian sweatshops in countries such as China, Vietnam and Bangladesh. On strike for a better world: Labor conflict is coming — and the ruling class will fight back hard 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z For all his success, and the millions of dollars he’s made, the story of Albert Pujols remains downright Dickensian. Pujols chasing home run history as Cardinals chase playoffs 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Created in the space of just a few days, John Gilroy painted a Dickensian scene of decadence and humour, using the bar's regulars and staff at the time as characters. Guinness artist John Gilroy's bar mural restored 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z "When you talk about poverty there's a Dickensian kind of picture that comes into your head and that's not the modern day poverty," she said. Food banks warn they are struggling to keep up with demand 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z You’ve played wonderfully diverse roles in “Dickensian,” “Howard’s End,” “Catherine the Great.” 'Stranger Things' star Joseph Quinn breaks down Eddie Munson's fate 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z Says Silverman: “It was a breakout episode for Burns,” who “sometimes has one foot in the Dickensian universe.” ‘Homer at the Bat’ at 30: The landmark ‘Simpsons’ episode that pushed the show’s boundaries 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z In recent times about half of Christmas Days have seen some snowfall recorded somewhere in the UK but the widespread coverings evoked by Dickensian Christmas scenes are now a rare event. Met Office confirms white Christmas as snow falls in Scotland 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z He’s an oily Dickensian fiend, who “has the serenity of a man entirely without conscience.” Review | Jenni Fagan’s ‘Luckenbooth’ is a deliciously weird gothic horror 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Some ads sound downright Dickensian, like this one from 1890: “WANTED — A young lad as errand boy; must come well recommended.” Perspective | For Labor Day: Recollecting some of the labors of 19th-century Washingtonians 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z That’s a huge number of real people voting with both their money and their feet against the Fox News-style trope that downtown Seattle is a Dickensian hellhole. The opposite worlds that make up Seattle continue to orbit far, far apart 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z But that Dickensian plot seems like it may be set. Even after a superspreader infects 10% of a town, the solution to COVID remains a tough sell 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Manhattan private schools were planning greenhouses and displaying cafeteria menus on flat-screen televisions, but in a new Dickensian era of public education, there would be neither magic nor Magic Markers. New York, Finally, Taxes the Rich 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z When I started this project all those years ago, it was as if a scary Dickensian ghost was trying to show me something I wasn’t ready or courageous enough to see. When the time was right, he saw the ending for 'Sound of Metal' — and his own story 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z They would all get sick and it was Dickensian and horrible. The robots are coming for your office 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z We laugh and marvel at the dexterity, the Dickensian nimbleness of his fingers, this other, better, sense of digital theft. The gold chain that got away 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s enough to put the bah-humbug in the most Dickensian caroler. 9 ways to experience holiday music this season 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Johnson said there would be no bonfire of regulation to build a “bargain basement Dickensian Britain” and assured Europe that the United Kingdom would remain the “quintessential European civilization”. A divided United Kingdom exits EU's orbit, enters Brexit unknown 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z There’s still time to catch the Lil’ Dickens Carolers quartets decked out in Dickensian best, and accessorized with matching masks for COVID-era singing. 9 ways to experience holiday music this season 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The Dickensian elements of the Covid-19 economy — unemployed workers facing a cutoff in benefits even as other Americans buy houses worth hundreds of thousands of dollars or more — underscore the unevenness of the recovery. Unemployment Claims Rise as Economic Worries Grow 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z He says the "19th Century, Dickensian" approach is "absolutely broken". Youth jail plans therapy rather than steel doors 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s both an overstuffed box of postmodern delights and a classically Dickensian repository of whimsy and charm. Review: Armando Iannucci's 'David Copperfield' is a delightfully revisionist take on Dickens 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z “We are looking at a strange Dickensian moment here, a tale of two cities,” Claman said. Liz Claman: Both Biden and Trump are a 'little bit' in 'fantasyland' with economic plans 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z He called the court proceedings under Kaplan "a Dickensian farce" and a "show trial." The case of Steven Donziger and Chevron: How those who fight corporate tyranny are crushed 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Living in Dickensian tenements, they would remit a significant share of their earnings to sustain their families back home. Opinion | A Friendship, a Pandemic and a Death Beside the Highway 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z “It’s like briefly joining the aristocracy. Like some Dickensian novel where somebody is suddenly hoisted up to being presented at court.” Emma Donoghue wrote her terrifying pandemic novel before COVID, thanks very much 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The first few decades of the 21st century are looking much like the middle of the 19th century, with a return to a kind of a Dickensian logic. Mike Davis on the global crisis: "This moment is not a tunnel with a bright light at the end" 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z And again, this is a Dickensian quality to the internet. Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z “It feels almost Dickensian to me. I don’t accept that there are or should be classes of people. I get that that may be naive.” Meet the Hollywood super-networkers working to beat Trump at any price 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The rise of the small-school wide receiver from training camp helper to valuable assistant to invaluable talent evaluator and ultimately general manager of the AFC champions is downright Dickensian. Chiefs GM Brett Veach overlooked but not underappreciated 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z The rise of the small-school wide receiver from training camp helper to valuable assistant to invaluable talent evaluator and ultimately general manager of the AFC champions is downright Dickensian. Chiefs GM Brett Veach overlooked but not underappreciated 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z He has several carvings in the shop with Dickensian themes. In a workshop, a bygone trade, a woodcarver and his Santas 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Despite 10 years of Tory austerity that has led to Dickensian levels of poverty, and the end of 175 years of steel-making in my constituency, people didn’t believe Labour would be any better. General election: John McDonnell to leave Labour shadow cabinet – live news 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z The cabinet is Dickensian in the purest sense: the sort of people who would need more than two ghosts to change their behaviour. Frankie Boyle’s election countdown: 'You’ll be praying they prorogue the next parliament' 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z In case this weren’t Dickensian enough, let’s also note for context that the news is reaching the public just a few weeks before Christmas. After cutting taxes for the wealthy, Team Trump targets food stamps 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The dining room was a festive place, but the kitchen was almost Dickensian in its sordidness and gloom. My Life as a Child Chef 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Its critics see a throwback to something more Dickensian, where the lack of regulation and accountability keeps workers in the dark and on the defensive. I Found Work on an Amazon Website. I Made 97 Cents an Hour. 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Coy called it “Dickensian in the best ways” and said the story reduced him to tears more than once. What will we read? Vote for the next Moira’s Book Club selection 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The bar’s Dickensian gloom is a selling point for people embarking on affairs, and actors or politicians wanting a quiet drink – but also for pickpockets. 'We are hurtling towards a surveillance state’: the rise of facial recognition technology 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z These changes have helped locals come to terms with the uglier aspects of their history and explain how a trade tied to Dickensian tales of hardship is now the inspiration for a cheery festival. A Chim Chiminey Parade Honors Sweeps and Recalls Past Horrors 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z With the kind of complex plot and range of personalities that book critics couldn’t resist calling Dickensian, “Goldfinch” was a challenge to shoehorn into a film, even one that’s two hours and 29 minutes long. Review: 'The Goldfinch' sings its own tune in its own sweet time 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z It was called “Dickensian” by some admiring reviewers, but the largest Dickens novels rely on highly elaborate plotting and a large cast of characters. The Goldfinch: can a film solve Donna Tartt's most divisive book? 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z I’ll never forget how surreal, how Dickensian, this city seemed that afternoon. Newsletter: Behind the scenes on a yearlong homelessness reporting project 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z The Corner feels – oh, dreaded word, but true here – Dickensian. Top 10 books about Baltimore 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z His childhood in Soweto sounds Dickensian in its violence and poverty. Trevor Noah on Trump: ‘I’m just trying to raise questions’ 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z A prison described as "reminiscent of Dickensian England" has made only "slow and weak progress" in improving standards, a new report has found. 'Dickensian' jail 'too slow' to improve, report says 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z “Fortunately,” he added, “I changed my mind,” swayed in part by the original comic’s Dickensian themes of abandonment and triumph over poverty. Martin Charnin, director and lyricist who brought ‘Annie’ to Broadway, dies at 84 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z That can be true, but by and large it is far more Dickensian than that. My dispiriting, infuriating – and illuminating – time as a political telemarketer 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z For decades, it had been under the mayor’s control and had earned a reputation for sometimes Dickensian inefficiencies. Amid Trump’s legal woes, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine enjoys the limelight 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z As Jonathan Cohn wrote in his 2013 New Republic expose of American day care, "the overall quality is wildly uneven and barely monitored, and at the lower end, it’s Dickensian." Democrats need to make childcare funding the 2020 priority 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Anyone listening to President Donald Trump and to Democratic presidential hopefuls hears an almost Dickensian tale of two very different Americas. Thank Trump for the thriving economy 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z These gleaming cities are becoming the most Dickensian locales in America, with homelessness and squalor among luxury high-rises and trendy restaurants. Robert Reich: America’s widening inequality of place 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z But the Dickensian saga of cruel twists and providential turns was only beginning. Review | Exposing injustice and a city’s dark side 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Anyone listening to President Trump and to Democratic presidential hopefuls hears an almost Dickensian tale of two very different Americas. Opinion | Democrats are trying to convince people they’re worse off than they are. That’s a losing battle. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The Republican war on the poor is Dickensian, a contemporary version of social Darwinism. Psychiatrist James Gilligan on the shutdown: Trump inflicted his own pain and humiliation on America 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Its scope is Dickensian—it’s a kaleidoscopic, coke-spiked “Our Mutual Friend”—and, in the demands it makes on the reader, it calls to mind postmodern doorstops like “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “Infinite Jest.” Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The space itself is narrow, dark and severe, a Dickensian nightmare in the City of Light. Review | Role reversal: Food critics Tom Sietsema and Tim Carman on their favorite dishes of 2018 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z A million children under the age of 10, in England and Scotland, are facing "Dickensian" levels of poverty as they prepare for Christmas, a charity says. A million children 'in Dickensian poverty' 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z These gleaming cities are becoming the most Dickensian locales in America, where homelessness and squalor mix with luxury high-rises and tony restaurants. What Amazon's second headquarters tell us about America's great divide | Robert Reich 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z In California, a group of activists, led by labor groups, are championing a state ballot initiative to regulate this Dickensian industry. Why California dialysis clinics are spending $111 million to defeat a modest ballot proposition 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z It would be stone-hearted to laugh at “The Happy Prince,” but its level of sentimentality is nearly Dickensian. Review | Rupert Everett transforms into Oscar Wilde in this sentimental portrait of the famed Irish wit 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z So is the 2015 TV series “Dickensian,” a wild and crazy mashup of Dickens characters and plots in which Inspector Bucket plays a starring role. Travel through time with classic fiction 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Think, as some have suggested, of a dusty leather-bound ledger in a Dickensian counting house, a record of every transaction relevant to that practice. The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z It was a sprawling, Dickensian family chronicle about one man's dreams of independence. Obituary: VS Naipaul 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Eye-opening: California’s greatest contradiction is almost Dickensian: In a state often cited as home to scores of billionaires, almost 4 in every 10 residents are living at or near the poverty line. Essential California: The death toll grows as wildfires rage 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z After a Dickensian childhood dealing with the brutalities of fascism and communism in Hungary, Benko settled in the U.S. in 1958, the same year he was awarded the grandmaster title. Birthday boy Benko has left a lasting mark on the game of chess 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The commission that repealed the system replaced it with Dickensian workhouses—a corrective, at the opposite extreme, for a program that everyone agreed had failed. Who Really Stands to Win from Universal Basic Income? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z This is why the show of compassion rings hollow: Republican lawmakers aren’t willing to stand up to the source of their Dickensian dilemma. Opinion | Trump’s America goes full Charles Dickens 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Their minders are two men, and the teenagers name them the Moth and the Darter, Dickensian nicknames for men who live in the margins of the law. ‘Warlight’: a dreamlike novel about spies, family secrets and lies 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Our journey began when we stepped into an aging retrofitted elevator the size of an upright coffin to descend to the Dickensian depths. Westminster, home of British democracy, is rotting from within 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z It sounds like the plot of a Dickensian nightmare. Carson's new HUD plan: rent hikes for low-income families 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Zidane had already taken some steps past the Italian defender when the red mist descended like a fog on Dickensian London. World Cup stunning moments: Zinedine Zidane's head-butt | Ian McCourt 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Most ministries are Dickensian, with piles of paper stacked up on desks and a lack of co-ordination between one department and another. Myanmar’s government unveils a 238-point economic reform plan 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z When it comes to the lives of the people whose homes he supervises, Carson bears more than a superficial resemblance to a Dickensian poorhouse supervisor. Opinion | A $31,000 dining room set for Ben Carson? Typical Trump administration behavior. 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z “A Christmas Carol” itself contains many passages that reveal this joyful Dickensian Christmas spirit. Charles Dickens, Mr. Christmas, truly embodied joyful season 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z We don’t live in a Dickensian nightmare where people retort, “Are there no workhouses?” in response to requests for assistance. Opinion | Tiny Tim’s GoFundMe 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Some of the distinct features of Dickensian characterisation – the physical tics or the verbal habits of his characters – were designed to bring a person back into the memory. Did Dickens invent Christmas? No, but he did reinvent the novel 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z It was Isherwood, soon a friend, who first remarked that Tales of the City has a Dickensian flavour, blending comedy with social comment. Armistead Maupin: ‘I wrote the memoir to show I had made a journey from darkness’ 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Stepping back, the broader circumstances are almost Dickensian. Tom Price's private-jet travel raises eyebrows 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Its leading figures were overwhelmingly drawn from the private schools; its working conditions were Dickensian until the 1960s. The many, often competing, jobs of the Bank of England 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z One provision under consideration in the Senate, according to news reports, would reduce federal spending on Medicaid more than the Dickensian House version does. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Ribuffo’s surname announces his identity in the Dickensian style: Irascible, brilliant and deeply learned, he is one of the profession’s great rebuffers. I Thought I Understood the American Right. Trump Proved Me Wrong. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Then the world becomes a Dickensian nightmare where the wealthy need to wade through the filth of the rest's poverty. PTA Gift for Someone Else’s Child? A Touchy Subject in California 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z There’s something about Christmas – maybe it’s the Dickensian tradition of intergenerational reflection, or maybe it’s because people will buy any old bilge if it’s tinselly enough – that just screams “harrowing displays of artistic theft”. Rest in no peace: the creepiest duets with dead singers 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z In true Dickensian style, Whitman appears to settle old scores in the book: the writer’s father was also swindled by a New York lawyer. Walt Whitman's lost novel The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle found 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z What sounds like a sad Dickensian sort of ration is in fact a strong case for burning good sourdough. ‘Uh-oh, somebody burned something!’ Why burning food isn’t always bad 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z In such novels as “The Brooklyn Follies” and “Sunset Park,” Auster’s evident intention is Dickensian. Paul Auster’s Novel of Chance 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z She joked that she had a Dickensian childhood herself, growing up black in North Augusta, S.C., on a family farm bought by her great-grandfather, a former slave. A Dickensian Divide, but United in Holiday Cheer 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The nation’s 58 immigration courts, administered not by the judiciary but by the Justice Department, are places of Dickensian impenetrability, operating under comically antiquated conditions. America’s immigration courts are a diorama of dysfunction 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Instead, he is placed in a Dickensian orphanage and plucked up by an international adoption , finally landing in a loving Australian home. What the movie ‘Lion’ tells us about our vision of humanity 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z At the age of ten, Gregor was dispatched to a boarding school of truly Dickensian awfulness. Love, Terror, and Cigarettes 2017-01-01T05:00:00Z China isn’t the Dickensian sweatshop portrayed in Made in China. As China Pivots, Trump Risks Fighting an Old War 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z “Full disclosure, confession — that’s the only reason I come to these things,” said Mr. Galazin, who then toasted the group and Dickens “and most of all, fellowship — Dickensian fellowship.” A Dickensian Divide, but United in Holiday Cheer 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Thom Jones survived a Dickensian childhood, self-hate and a brain injury from boxing to become an idiosyncratic literary sensation as a writer of short stories. Acclaimed author Thom Jones, 71, dies in Olympia 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Treatment is more or less free, but the facilities are Dickensian in comparison with the Care hospital — teeming emergency rooms, with hundreds of parents and children pushing for a single doctor’s attention. An Investor’s Plan to Transplant Private Health Care in Africa 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z “I didn’t want that. I wanted it to be raw and modern. One of the reviews said our ‘Sense and Sensibility’ was Dickensian. ‘Sense and Sensibility’ as a comedy? Adaptation at Folger highlights Austen’s humor. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z She draws on the inspiration from her mother’s Dickensian childhood. Dreams from their mothers: Hillary and Obama bending history for women again 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Walking into the Georgetown Steam Plant is like walking into an abandoned cathedral — if the god it was designed to celebrate was a Dickensian vision of 19th-century industrialism. Factory, tomb, theater: The Satori Group makes an immersive play in a 109-year-old Georgetown steam plant 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Jones survived a Dickensian childhood, self-hate and a brain injury from boxing that resulted in temporal lobe epilepsy. Acclaimed author Thom Jones, 71, dies in Olympia 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Kafka is not the only author to lend his name to an adjective - Merriam-Webster also points to Dickensian and Byronic, but there are many. Kafkaesque: a word so overused it has lost all meaning? 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z A recent inspection report sparked claims of "Dickensian squalor". Wormwood Scrubs prison staff return to work after walkout - BBC News 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z "We are hugely proud of what we achieved in the first series of Dickensian and would like to thank everyone who helped us create a truly special and unique drama." BBC One drama Dickensian cancelled after one series - BBC News 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The word “broad” was once a pejorative for women dating back to Dickensian times. 'Female' Is Now a Dirty Word 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z The phrase "Dickensian squalor" means nothing unless you know a little bit about Charles Dickens and his novels, for example. What It Really Takes to Read 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Britain is not expecting another Dickensian railway boom. Re-coupling 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The jail had "levels of Dickensian squalor", the Prison Reform Trust said. Wormwood Scrubs jail is 'rat-infested and overcrowded' - BBC News 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The backdrop was a painting of a snowy Dickensian Christmas scene, with horse-drawn carriages. What I Learned From Writers in Their Final Days 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Before you run outside disguised as a proper noun, or convert your blog style to baroque Dickensian, let’s consider what is at stake. Think you’s good at grammar? Try my seven golden rules | Jeremy Butterfield 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z The wonderful Dickensian on BBC One would be fan fiction in any other medium. A Point of View: Confessions of a repeat Star Wars viewer - BBC News 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Phrases like "Cinderella story" or "Dickensian squalor," for example, are lost upon those who don't get the references, which literate writers and speakers assume their audiences know. What Every American Should Know 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust said: "This shattering report on London's best-known Victorian jail reveals levels of Dickensian squalor which ought to have been consigned to the history books." Wormwood Scrubs jail is 'rat-infested and overcrowded' - BBC News 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z I have also felt exasperated as the bookseller, with his Dickensian surname, turns into a litigant out of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, still refusing to sell the portrait for any money. Laura Cumming: how Velázquez gave me consolation – and set me on the trail of a mystery 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Then, too, I can’t help my mind flitting back to the old Dickensian image of the workhouse. Even in expensive cities, the sharing economy may just have its limits 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z They are not for some errant holiday sale, but for bowls of soup. This might seem rather Dickensian at first, until you see the bright yellow sign above them — shaped like a ramen bowl. Finally, bowls of very good ramen in Old Pasadena 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Dickensian begins on BBC One at 19:00 GMT on 26 December, followed by a second episode at 20:30 GMT. Behind the scenes at new Dickens drama - BBC News 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z But in Dickensian she is a beautiful young woman who finds herself the head of her father's company, sparking the ire of her brother and possibly setting in motion her demise. Mashing up the world of Charles Dickens - BBC News 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z If you have to limit yourself to one Dickensian, roast pheasant-to-pudding dinner, the standout restaurant is Rules, which has been serving up signature English dishes since 1798 with a note of genteel formality. A Classic Christmas in London: A Traveler’s Guide 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The game seems to explore the Victorian cult of the innocent child – the Dickensian picture of innocent cherubs waiting to be saved. Reductive, superficial, beautiful – a historian's view of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z My Dickensian “best of times, worst of times” analysis is drawn partly from Greenberg’s new book, “America Ascendant.” Understanding what makes Trump’s supporters so angry 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z Obviously, having written under different pseudonyms, and having characters with these wonderful, Dickensian, perfectly fitting names. JK Rowling meets Lauren Laverne: ‘Success never feels the way you think it will’ 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Dickensian begins on BBC One at 19:30 GMT on 26 December. Mashing up the world of Charles Dickens - BBC News 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z That Dickensian ambition is cheekily explicit in “Purity,” which traces the unlikely rise of a poor, fatherless child named Pip. The 10 best books of 2015 The unions argue they are fighting to improve working practices for their drivers, describing conditions for them as "almost Dickensian" in some aspects. Arriva Trains Wales strike: Deadlock in talks as action looms - BBC News 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z “I think most Americans understand that our country today faces a series of unprecedented crises,” he said in one of his many Dickensian riffs. Democrats Say the Economy Stinks 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z He told an interviewer: “I still consider myself a Dickensian in as much as there aspects of storytelling I still believe in – plot, surprise, cliffhangers.” Marlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z In the account of fellow inmates and his relatives, as reported by The Post’s Justin Jouvenal, the horrors endured by Mr. Mitchell were Dickensian. Jamycheal Mitchell’s ghastly death 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z It reports that the Labour leader's great-great grandfather was a workhouse master who "presided over Dickensian conditions before resigning after seducing an inmate". Newspaper headlines: Jeremy Corbyn's first week and Downton Abbey returns - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z "I fear we are right on the cusp of things suddenly starting to unravel. The whole court system is Dickensian," he said. Magistrates' warning as court delays create 'postcode lottery' - BBC News 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z He bemoans “celebrity journalism”, lumping even himself in at times with its practitioners who too often ignore “the Dickensian side of society”. Dan Rather: ‘Have the guts to dig into stories people in power don’t want’ 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z The Dickensian city is very similar to an Arab city. Oliver! with a twist: musical swaps Dickensian London for modern Amman 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z “Right now we’re experiencing a Dickensian time, where it’s the best of times and it’s the worst of times at once,” says transgender rights advocate Masen Davis, who formerly ran the Transgender Law Center. Why Transgender Americans Are Being Murdered 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The main problem with Sgt Pepper is Sir Paul’s maudlin obsession with his own self-importance and Dickensian misery. Pepper pot shots: which classic albums do you love to hate? 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z Why do you think these corporations continue to operate like a parody of some Dickensian overseer? “No one is making them stop”: Why corporations outsource catastrophe — and workers pay the price 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Rodriguez’s immense skill and even bigger contract made him a larger-than-life, almost Dickensian character for the press, which chronicled his every flaw. The redemption of A-Rod 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z But the streets these urchins scurry around in are not those of Dickensian London, but of a modern-day Arab city. Oliver! with a twist: musical swaps Dickensian London for modern Amman 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z It’s like thinking that Victorian novels were mostly of Dickensian brilliance, rather than pulpy shag-fests. Have our cultural tastes become too childish? 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s in the guilt she expresses as she describes the Dickensian misery that she and Beula shared in the Harlem house her father left them that we begin to hear her real voice: A Monologue for Mama 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Issa is supposed to be a congressman, not a Dickensian villain. Nation's richest congressman: U.S. poor are 'envy of the world' 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Earlier, at an announcement inside the Empire State Building with advocates for mental health, Ms. McCray adopted the Dickensian theme of her husband’s campaign. Chirlane McCray Promises Millions of Dollars for Mental Health and Social Service Programs 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z His story is Dickensian in its down-and-out beginnings and American in its particular obstacles and eventual rewards. Calvin Peete, 71, a Pioneer on the PGA Tour, Is Dead 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z To my mind, these ugly, Dickensian scenes outside the court are wholly unnecessary. An expensive seat at the Supreme Court 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z That Dickensian colon acts as a full stop to command our attention for all that follows. Editorials from around Oregon 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z But as indicated by my Dickensian title, reading about big data may lead someone to think that they’re thumbing through a tale of two completely different technologies. For Big Data, It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z His difficult childhood took a Dickensian twist when the children of one of the richest families in Perugia, having met the teenage Guede on the basketball court, begged their father to take him in. Will Amanda Knox Be Dragged Back to Italy in Murder Case? 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “The fact that this incredibly privileged, powerful woman still acts like a Dickensian victim” is maddening, he howls. Review: In ‘Buyer & Cellar,’ a Visit to the Babs Cave 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Lennon was the only band member to grow up “solidly middle class,” while Spitz described Starr’s living conditions during childhood as “Dickensian.” The Beatles And Wealth Inequality: A Reminder That Education Is Irrelevant To Success 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z In one particularly expansive paragraph, one of the lawsuits describes "Dickensian" conditions for inmates at the Ferguson city jail: Ferguson and another city sued over 'grotesque' jail conditions 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Of course, you recognize the grant maker and the development director in this Dickensian sketch. Philanthropy's Power Gap: Nonprofits Ain't Too Proud To Beg (Though Maybe They Should Be) 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z She is deathly pale and her children are sick, like characters in a Dickensian tale. Food Banks in Britain: "People Would Have Died If We Had Not Been Here" The stage, which is nearly bare, feels dark, closed off, tight, as if trying to keep the Dickensian soot out. Bradley Cooper in “The Elephant Man” | The New Yorker 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z And into the clutches of the Dickensian pack of thieves imagined by Dr. Mumbai? The secret life of baggage: Where does your luggage go at the airport? If you were to be a bit more Dickensian about it, you could flog them and tell them they are going to bed without any dinner. Will playing nicely make difference? 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Upon returning to L.A. from her first Fleetwood Mac tour, she had approached a designer friend and said, “I wanna look like a Dickensian character that walks the wharfs of London.” Sisters of the Moon: Stevie Nicks and Haim 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z The Dickensian capitalist London of the 1840s waded through massive pollution, terrible housing conditions, long hours of hard work, low life expectancy, vast social inequality and significant exploitation. The Demonization Of American Capitalism 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z This is not just a Dickensian level of cruelty, it’s a public health hazard. Detroit Cuts Off Water to Its Poorest Citizens 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Relying on the visual effects department, he said, “I replaced a lot of the buildings with more Dickensian London-style buildings.” New Fox Series Is Set in the Pre-Batman Era 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Among them was the singer Harry Belafonte, who suggested Mr. Bloomberg was in part to blame for the nation’s “deeply Dickensian justice system.” At City Hall, a Tussle Over Bloomberg’s Legacy 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z After a weekend - Saturday shopping, Sunday outing to Box Hill - I met Lady Max at Blackfriars and he took me across the river to see some rotting Dickensian warehouses at Shad Thames. Paul Theroux and the London of Lady Max 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z It is Dickensian quirk for the hip neighborhood. Brunch is a waste of time, money and drunken pleasure that you don't have 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z Here is a social satirist in the Dickensian burlesque style and yet one who also wants to report on the world, on the universe. Why we love to hate Martin Amis 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z This positively Dickensian description of pint-sized card junkies buying packs of cigarettes and then hawking the “smokeables” to “passers on the street” for another fix reminds us how much the world changed for the better. How The Biggest Baseball Card Scam In History Could Cost You $30,000 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein wrote a Dickensian report last month detailing the competition among managed-care companies in New York to find the most profitable Medicaid clients: The Medicaid Black Hole That Costs Taxpayers Billions 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z One fact seems beyond dispute: conditions in Irish mother-and-baby homes up to the 1960s, if not later, were positively Dickensian. That Story About Irish Babies In A Septic Tank: Just Another Media Hoax 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z The book was so popular that people flocked to the Frick Collection in record numbers to see the titular painting that features heavily in the Dickensian plot. These Are the Female Authors You Should Be Reading 2014-04-16T12:00:49Z "He pedalled it to Exeter. At that time of year, Christmas night, no one noticed. It was quite Dickensian. Stupidly he tried to sell it." Penny farthing thief's eBay gaffe 2014-04-04T03:01:06Z The letdown is that the Dickensian duality that follows isn’t about headline bus-protesting Bay Area social inequality, but a different sort of growing gap between haves and have-nots. A Tale of Two Valleys 2014-03-07T20:27:00Z Isn't that something that affects ageing soaks - red-faced Dickensian gluttons, paying the price for years of uncompromising excess? Gout: Why I don't find it funny at all 2014-01-02T00:57:09Z And the word ‘Dickensian’ got more of a workout than at any time since “The Wire” went off the air. New York’s de Blasio is formally sworn in as mayor on a chilly day for crowd, predecessor 2014-01-02T00:02:34Z For these die-hards, the complexity of the work endures: a chaos of death-defying circus performances, Dickensian in the best and worst senses. Books: ‘One Doctor’ Provides Abundant Insights 2013-12-30T20:29:36Z She says: "Now people would be horrified and think it was Dickensian but it wasn't at all. I could not have had a better childhood." Lorraine Kelly's 25 years on a sofa 2013-12-24T00:24:06Z It locked them up instead in poorhouses of Dickensian cruelty. What a Higher Minimum Wage Does for Workers and the Economy 2013-11-27T11:00:38Z After all, despite his Bermuda and London jet-setting, Bloomberg hasn’t been a disengaged dilettante passively presiding over the Big Apple’s Dickensian cataclysm. Good riddance, plutocrats! Demolishing the 1 percent’s class war 2013-09-10T13:42:00Z The word "Gradgrind" might also be included in such accusations, adding a further flavour of Dickensian classroom misery. The unofficial exam season phrase book 2013-08-22T00:10:16Z And still, it is not fair to paint the mayor as a Dickensian ogre who utterly ignored the poor. Big City: A Mayor Who Puts Wall Street First 2013-08-16T17:54:31Z But, she said, “at the same time, he would have appreciated the Dickensian nature of it.” Michael Mastromarino, Dentist Guilty in Organ Scheme, Dies at 49 2013-07-09T01:19:19Z The word loses that Dickensian aura of tragedy when you are decades into adulthood, but it still influences your sense of self. The New Old Age Blog: On Becoming an ‘Orphan’ 2013-07-01T19:10:36Z City deregulation has bred selfishness not seen since Dickensian workhouse owners. Letters: Will bankers wear the bonus cap? 2013-03-11T20:59:01Z It is a Dickensian image of corporate callousness, and it comes just when Corporate America is trying to dig out from its image hole of appearing unconscionable and dastardly. Denying minimum-wage workers a raise is craven and grotesque 2013-02-14T15:38:00Z Christie zeroed in on his party’s weakest spot, casting House Republicans as Dickensian villains so consumed by their grudge match with Obama that they were stalling aid to homeless storm victims. TIME's New Cover: Chris Christie 2013-01-10T03:10:00Z It was faded, yet stunning - though it wasn't quite a Dickensian tableau rendered by strokes of a quill. Lens Blog: Henry Chalfant's Big Subway Archive 2012-12-16T21:01:02Z The city acquired the island in 1828, but the name remained Blackwell’s Island while the city operated a prison, a lunatic asylum, a charity hospital, a smallpox hospital, a workhouse and other Dickensian horrors there. F.Y.I.: Before It Was Called Roosevelt Island 2012-12-16T02:10:57Z A fast-paced, hyperbolic coming-of-age story set in South Africa in the 1930s and 1940s, it told of the Dickensian childhood of Peekay, a white South African of English descent, replete with persecution and triumph. Bryce Courtenay, Australian Novelist, Dies at 79 2012-11-24T03:27:24Z Most people interviewed for this article invoked a Dickensian metaphor: a tale of two cities — those restaurants affected by the storm, and those not. Restaurateurs Face the Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy 2012-11-06T20:46:45Z The report reveals a Dickensian situation facing many of Scotland's low paid workers and people who rely on welfare benefits. Food bank requests double in year 2012-09-03T23:22:04Z The louder the shouting, the more mannered and Dickensian his language became. Who is Julian Assange? By the people who know him best 2012-08-24T22:00:52Z Anything that looks like a return to the Dickensian workhouse raises hackles. Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right 2012-08-22T17:01:51Z The president’s plan was more about offering health insurance to all, to end our Dickensian system of rationing by income, than about cost control. Economic Scene: Rationing Health Care More Fairly 2012-08-21T18:58:33Z And again, the lottery win denies the solid, simple, common-sense wisdom on which I was raised, but which now seems almost Dickensian: the acknowledgement that there's no such thing as a free lunch. Nick Harkaway: What I'm thinking about ... the real cost of free stuff 2012-08-19T08:08:38Z It is nothing short of Dickensian to exploit prisoners by paying them just £3 a day while Cardiff call centre workers lose their jobs. Row over prisoners at call centre 2012-08-08T17:01:33Z Some of these facilities use techniques that are positively Dickensian, chaining people, tying them to chairs or leaving them to sit for hours in their own waste. A Tool Kit for the World's Mentally Ill 2012-06-29T21:05:30Z But Chaplin's work, rooted in Victorian theatre and the Dickensian novel, evokes the values of the time before. Why are the Beatles so popular 50 years on? 2012-06-15T17:53:56Z These stories still fill him with outrage but also with something like wonder, the two emotions that sustain him in what amounts to a solitary, Dickensian occupation with long hours and few holidays. Robert Caro?s Big Dig 2012-04-12T19:48:16Z A Dickensian Question.—At the date when Martin Chuzzlewit was written, what may fairly be assumed to have been the fashionable hour for dining? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:26.587Z Unite accused Cardiff solar panel firm Becoming Green of "Dickensian" exploitation. Row over prisoners at call centre 2012-08-08T17:01:33Z Nursery schools are stimulating, cheerful, colorful places, while many nursing homes still resemble Dickensian orphanages, environments that, were you to substitute their populations with the very young, would be shuttered for reasons of inhumanity. Well Blog: Finding Joy in Alzheimer's 2012-02-16T05:01:11Z In dusty trial transcripts, Dr. Hartog discovered the raw material for a volume that is less legal history than social history — a page-turner with Dickensian overtones. The New Old Age Blog: The Caregiver's Bookshelf: Broken Promises 2012-02-15T17:46:03Z Unfortunately, until the American public is willing to spend twice times what they currently do on electronics, Dickensian offshore manufacturing probably isn’t going anywhere: flash-in-the-pan protests over one particular manufacturer aside. After Protests, Apple Begins Manufacturing Inspections 2012-02-13T15:53:44Z Bochco’s creation featured a Dickensian ensemble of characters, multiple story arcs that spanned over several episodes, cinema verite camera work and overlapping dialogue. Can David Milch--and HBO's Luck--Overcome the Curse of Cop Rock? 2012-01-29T20:04:52Z The Dickensian Rambler will well remember this hotel as the scene of Mr. Pickwick’s “romantic adventure with a middle-aged lady in yellow curl-papers,” related in extenso in the same chapter as above. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z In examining the state child-care system in Ireland, the series brought to light a Dickensian network of reformatories and residential schools for poor, neglected and abandoned children known as industrial schools. Mary Raftery, 54, Dies; Documented Child Abuse in Ireland 2012-01-12T22:47:29Z This would be a minor, Dickensian curiosity but for the fact that Perry is sneaking up the polls in Iowa again. Countdown to Iowa: Rick Perry Finds His Ground Game, Gains in Polls 2011-12-22T06:05:33Z As for plum pudding, few can resist the Dickensian spectacle when it is set aflame in a darkened room. | Holiday Desserts: Fruitcakes That Are Destined for the Table, Not the Trash 2011-12-17T01:30:21Z Its hiring of ambulances at its Pennsylvania warehouse to wait for workers to keel over in the summer heat conjured up a Dickensian sweatshop. Bits Blog: For Amazon, Lashes and Backlashes 2011-12-15T14:23:31Z Another Dickensian association with this Rochester Charity may be quoted in connection with Miss Adelaide Procter. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z Willowbrook was a Dickensian institution that would eventually come to symbolize everything that was wrong with the way America cared for its mentally ill. Autism's fight for facts: A voice for science 2011-11-02T18:20:32.833Z The retired accountant Ivermint, a new crusader in the fight against air pollution, hopes the success of the clean stove project will help end to Ulan Bator's Dickensian winters. Mongolia's Capital Tries to Shed Its Smog 2011-10-17T14:45:10.843Z His visit to the Occupy Wall Street campsite in Lower Manhattan last week underlined this dissonance — Charles Foster Kane amid the Dickensian urchins. Gotham Extra: Mayor Bloomberg and Those Third-Term Blues 2011-10-14T22:50:06Z Students complained about Dickensian work conditions at the plant, operated by a partner of chocolate giant The Hershey Company. Federal agencies probe how Hershey plant treats foreign students 2011-08-25T22:28:30Z Hours after he's gone, and still shaking, I notice my half finished copy of Bleak House and am inspired to decide that Bill takes a Dickensian view of property management. Diary of a tenant: an angry landlord crosses the line 2011-08-22T07:45:01Z The promise is of jobs as regeneration spreads throughout an area of residential estates jostling Dickensian warehouses and unlovely metal-shuttered workshop units. 2012 Olympics challenge: Hackney battles to preserve its edginess 2011-07-25T15:09:17Z Enter the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater just before a performance of “Timon of Athens,” and you are faced with something like a Dickensian store window at Christmastime. | New Jersey: A Cynical View of Careless Generosity 2011-07-16T02:46:07Z But inside is a Dickensian maze of dark wood and battered cabinets. Amid Stacks of Paper, ?E-Court? Is Finally in Session 2011-07-08T02:01:04Z Earlier this year, Missouri considered a more Dickensian proposal. Dirty Work: The Creeping Rollback of Child Labor Laws 2011-06-06T06:55:00Z Bill takes a Dickensian view of property management. Diary of a tenant: an angry landlord crosses the line 2011-08-22T07:45:01Z There have been many articles on the subject, particularly in that excellent periodical, the Dickensian, edited by Mr. B. W. Matz. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z What distinguishes conditions in today's Chinese factories from Dickensian workhouses is scale. Inside Foxconn: The Man Who Makes Your iPhone 2010-09-09T21:00:00Z The standard image of a cost-cutting Washington politician is a certain kind of dour old man — a pinch-fisted Dickensian fussbudget who wags his finger and scolds Americans about living within their means. Spending Cuts: Will Congress Play Along? 2011-04-07T09:45:00Z Xinran also investigates Chinese orphanages, for many of which the word “Dickensian” would be totally inadequate. Casualties of China?s One Child Policy 2011-04-01T16:42:24Z McQuivey believes publishers must take three steps to survive: * Get rid of their Dickensian costs; warehouses, distribution, shipping to stores in bulk and then taking returns and having to keep inventory straight. Special Report: Dumping print, publisher bets the ranch on apps 2011-04-01T13:11:45Z The papers of Mr. G. F. Gadd in the Dickensian deserve special praise. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z It is all very Dickensian - perhaps a bit too cartoonish and unrealistic? History man 2011-02-08T09:23:32Z It inspired two more novels that chronicled the further adventures of the Darcys, an Irish-Australian clan rendered with vivid Dickensian strokes. Ruth Park, Australian Realist Author, Dies at 93 2011-01-01T21:30:23Z "The empty streets smell of despair," he said, his language as dramatic as the outsize Dickensian frock coat and top hat he had donned to lure customers into the shop. Christmas shopping: a slow start in the West End ? then the crowds descend 2010-12-23T19:08:06Z "We put ourselves under so much pressure to match the image of a Dickensian feast," says food stylist Katharine Tidy. Competitive cooking 2010-12-22T04:37:56Z There is something more attractive about this theory, and it has been very well argued by Mr. G. F. Gadd in the Dickensian, vol. ii. p. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z The trend in Britain is taking us away from the Dickensian impulse to be nice to Tiny Tim: Scrooge might well be approved of today, caring only for himself and his own interests. What the crying game says about us 2010-12-17T17:54:34Z Julian Assange -- despite never having been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime -- has now spent more than a week in solitary confinement with severe restrictions under what his lawyer calls "Dickensian conditions." Judge: Assange does have desire to clear his name 2010-12-16T18:04:03Z Thanks to the growing interest in seasonal food and non-intensive farming, the autumnal market for the Dickensian dining table showstopper is soaring. Goose back on menu to welcome in autumnal days 2010-09-22T17:56:00Z Ezra Klein, the young Dickensian orphan who is single-handedly turning the Washington Post into the Daily Worker, has a post up "explaining" Fannie and Freddie. Wednesday link dump: Triggering Mark Levin's Google Alert edition 2010-05-05T23:15:00Z Sentencing them to 12-month orders and 100 hours unpaid work, Judge Richard Bray said it appeared the country was going back to Dickensian times. Speedy squatter pair sentenced 2010-03-22T16:34:00Z What was different over the past few years was how widespread this Dickensian business model had become, largely fueled by Wall Street money seeking high rates of return. 2010-01-20T20:55:00Z So public service announcements might depict the lives of citizens and their children “in the most Dickensian manner — ‘This is what your life will be like if x happens.’ ” 2010-01-24T07:05:00Z He knew little of Dickens, but his first story is thoroughly Dickensian in character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The Dickensian, a magazine devoted to Dickensian subjects, was started in 1905; it is the organ of the Dickens Fellowship, and in a sense of the Boz Club. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" We are going back to Dickensian times it appears. Speedy squatter pair sentenced 2010-03-22T16:34:00Z Many scenes in the novels have taken place in this memorable apartment—in fact, it is quite historical, from a Dickensian point of view. A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land The Dickensian tradition rather suggests that the ripe experience of a middle-aged bon vivant is desirable in the host at such occasions. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Considered apart from the story, these Dickensian touches might seem merely humorous exaggeration, but to those who have traced the development of Mrs. Buckley’s character, how happy and pregnant they are! Australian Writers The Dickensian characters undoubtedly suffered from their delineator's likes and dislikes. Gilbert Keith Chesterton It is true that in this, as in other things, the Dickensian exaggeration is itself exaggerated. What I Saw in America Turnbull comes out, there is a scuffle, and both are arrested and taken before a Dickensian magistrate. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Carton declared his eternal devotion to Lucy, in words that were scarcely Dickensian. The Cricket Fastidious critics might discover in it some mixture of weak sentimentalism, or a few traces of Dickensian affectation and cheap tricks in story-telling. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 She has, indeed, something of the Dickensian exuberance which carries off absurdities and crudities that would otherwise be intolerably tiresome. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 10, 1916 But relatively to the other Dickensian productions this book may be called Thackerayan. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens Among other lesser points, he was not a Socialist; he was a sort of Dickensian anarchist. The Victorian Age in Literature Incidentally it might be mentioned that he also could have laid claim to be a "wictim of circumstances"; having but recently contracted much the same sort of hymeneal bargain as did the Dickensian character. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police N.B.—This is the Pip of our puzzle to Dickensian Students last week. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 5, 1892 His mother, with something more of the Dickensian type-character, can stand by her unpleasant self, and came ten years before "the Campaigner." The English Novel The work can be recommended as a book of pictorial reference for Dickensian students, but otherwise it is—ahem—superfluous. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 For one thing, he is named after Mr. Winkle, the Christmas guest of Mr. Wardle; and there is indeed something Dickensian in his union of domesticity with exuberance. The New Jerusalem "CHARLES OUR FRIEND."—Once again occurs an illustration of the applicability of Dickensian characters to modern instances. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 This is directly traceable in his writings, even to the extent of his resorting, here and there, to oddities of expression which were peculiarly Dickensian. Dickens in Camp Had Marley's transparent figure walked straight through the wall and up to the Dickensian character at my side, I would have been less surprised than I was by what actually happened. The Enormous Room "I really think," said the Dickensian, "that I had better put you in charge of your relations." Tremendous Trifles This being the floor tradition has decided was Mr. Pickwick's bedroom, it is suitably decorated with Pickwickian and Dickensian pictures and ornaments, all tending to remind the visitor of the homely period of the past. The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, He, being a humorist, explained to them the method of the celebrated Dickensian essay on Chinese Metaphysics by the gentleman who read an article on China and an article on Metaphysics and combined the information. Pygmalion The combination of Irvingesque romantic glamor and Dickensian bitter-sweet humor, applied to picturesquely novel material, with the addition of a trick ending, was fantastically popular. Selected Stories of Bret Harte And the office I entered was Dickensian too. Notes on Life and Letters I could write as convincing a chapter on Shakespear's Dickensian prejudice against the throne and the nobility and gentry in general as Mr Harris or Ernest Crosbie on the other side. Dark Lady of the Sonnets It is a Dickensian inn for which the novelist himself had a warm place in his heart for its own sake, spending many pleasant hours within its comfortable walls. The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, The present landlord is a true Dickensian in knowledge and character, and endeavours to make everybody comfortable and welcome, no matter who he be. The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, Although it does not look as inspiring on approaching it as most Dickensian inns do, its interior, nevertheless, makes up in comfort what its exterior lacks in picturesqueness. The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, One instinctively goes there as the centre of the Dickensian atmosphere with which the old city of Rochester is permeated. The Inns and Taverns of "Pickwick"; with Some Observations on Their Other Associations, |
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