10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROUGH-AND-READINESS»
Discover the use of
rough-and-readiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
rough-and-readiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Rough we were 'n ready we were, as the Leeton mob found out durin' the all-in,
after they started slingin' off 'bout what the Gov' had said. Still, who gives a stuff
about looks. Anyway, it was that same rough and readiness that came through ...
2
Australia's Most Notorious Convicts
... it was another place designated as a convict colony and it was described as a
very rough and ready place. This rough and readiness included an army store
along with barracks for the soldiers and convicts and a few tents and bark huts.
Barbara Malpass Edwards, 2010
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Yucatan
and Mayan Mexico
Since the 1950s the state has been completely transformed by the discovery of
oil, the basis of Tabasco's current wealth, and a population boom that has made
Villahermosa one of the busiest cities in the country. This rough-and-readiness ...
4
Time
and the Dancing Image
In this crowd, a trained dancer had to keep a certain amount of physical versatility
under wraps to avoid the onus of showing off, and the amateur performer was
valued for rough-and-readiness, for lack of preconceived muscle-set. This isn't to
...
5
The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe
and the Contours of ...
The new man of the late nineteenth century saw in manliness the rough and
readiness of Theodore Roosevelt and the struggle for existence of William
Graham Sumner. Born in a time of faith in a rationally ordered universe ordained
by a ...
... the essence of those early dramas, their rough-and-readiness, their
juxtaposition of the comic and the tragic, the farcical and the poetic. I wanted to
write a play that was deliberately ragged round the edges. To do this, I decided to
adopt a ...
7
Duffy's War: Fr. Francis Duffy, Wild Bill Donovan,
and the ...
He liked the rough and readiness of it all, telling his parents, “I spent nine days
without washing, brushing my teeth or even taking off my raincoat or shoes, once.
As you can imagine, I am now filthy.” His “most wonderful experience” came ...
8
A Journey in the Future of Water
... my scepticism is won over by the music, the atmosphere, the rough—and—
readiness of the theatrical expression and the running shoes beneath the
costumes, and by the charm of what are today's marginalised Mayan Indians
acting out ...
9
The Key of Green: Passion
and Perception in Renaissance Culture
The serviceable rough-and-readiness of Sternhold's ballad stanzas becomes, in
Sandys's paraphrases, the supple smoothness of rhyming tetrameter couplets.
Lawes's musical setting of Sandys's Psalm 23 captures some of that suavity, even
...
10
A Short History of Italian Literature
There is a certain rough-and-readiness about Rosa's manner, and in verse this
lack of quality is accentuated. The three first Satire, on music, poetry, and painting
, with their rude good sense employed against the lascivious votaries of the first, ...
John Humphreys Whitfield, John Robert Woodhouse, 1980
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROUGH-AND-READINESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
rough-and-readiness is used in the context of the following news items.
I Can See by Your Outfit That You Are a Cowboy
... Western way, accentuating the right parts, would grant access to the fruits of the Western tradition: self-reliance, coolness under crisis, rough-and-readiness. «Pacific Standard, Mar 15»
Disc reviews: Ernie Watts, Charles Lloyd
Lloyd, for all his more Rollinsesque rough-and-readiness, is terrific here and this is among the most interesting Szabo on record. The only trouble is that Lloyd, ... «Buffalo News, Sep 14»
Arts and Culture Solitude in Paternoster
However, it would be wrong to say that lawless rough-and-readiness completely epitomises this West Coast village. For one thing, Paternoster has developed ... «Mail & Guardian Online, May 13»
The woman who called the shots: Remembering Homai Vyarawalla
... and the photographers, and both parties supplanted the urbane chronicler culture with a new rough-and-readiness. By 1970, a year after her husband's death, ... «Forbes India, Jan 12»
Jan Verwoert World as Medium: On the Work of Stano Filko
There is a rough-and-readiness to his work throughout, precisely because it comes from a place where thinking the whole allows him to operate freely and, ... «E-Flux, Oct 11»
REVIEW: Wish I'd Said That | Ensemble Theatre, Sydney
In any case, the slight rough-and-readiness is somehow, part of its, and his, charm, which he has in spades. The sheer heart of the piece renders any dramatic ... «Crikey, Dec 10»
India: Divine guidance on a family holiday
It's only when you get close up to the walls that you see they are not so much constructed, as moulded. Yet despite the rough-and-readiness of the raw materials, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 10»
Boiling Point DVD review
But the flick's low budget rough-and-readiness suits the setting and main character. As gangster movies go, this film lacks pace and polish. But it's a great ... «Den Of Geek, Jun 09»
