10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIXTYISH»
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sixtyish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sixtyish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
The faces of your spouse and children are strange, and the outlines of your childhood are only a blur. This is the crisis that Yambo, an Italian bookseller, faces when he regains consciousness after suffering a stroke.
2
No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other ...
Sath is the word for sixty; sathiyajand is, literally, to go sixtyish. Other textual
definitions mention a loss of vivek, discrimination, or of judgment. None explicitly
mention forgetfulness or memory loss; though arguably encompassed in buddhi,
...
Almost any sixtyish widow and grandmother would want to rest and recuperate after solving an international case of murder and intrigue (Red Sea, Dead Sea), but not Fanny Zindel.
Serita Stevens, Rayanne Moore, 2004
4
Bulletproof Buddhists and Other Essays
A little sliding door between the kitchen and the dining room opens up, and a
potbellied sixtyish Chinaman with thin, graying hair looks out at me as he washes
his arms, changes his undershirt, combs his hair, blows his nose, puts on a thin ...
“Hello,” the sixtyish woman said, stepping forward. “I'm Claire Culverwell, EOD's
finance minister. Welcome. And this young lady, my granddaughter, Amanda, is
Miss Eden-on-Danube,” she finished, indicating to the teen that she should step ...
6
Under the Dome: A Novel
We have toured the sock-shape that is Chester's Mill and arrived back at Route
119. And, thanks to the magic of narration, not an instant has passed since the
sixtyish fellow from the Toyota slammed face-first into something invisible but
very ...
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DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW
he asked. “That about sums it up,” Willy answered, as he reached for the door
handle. “I'd better go powder my nose. I'll see you downstairs in fifteen minutes.”
T he sixtyish receptionist in the emergency room of Branscombe Dashing
Through ...
8
Working with Words: A Guide to Teaching and Learning Vocabulary
This activity could lead to oral practice and allow the students to generate their
own examples if you give them pictures of people (also famous people) to
describe e.g. Paul Newman is shortish, sixtyish and with greyish hair. STUDENT
...
Ruth Gairns, Stuart Redman, 1986
9
The Literary Bent: In Search of High Art in Contemporary ...
Again Roth makes his narrator-protagonist an obvious alter- ego, a famous
sixtyish American novelist named Philip Roth. The plot turns on his trip to
Jerusalem, early on in the Palestinian Intifada, to confront a sixtyish American
private eye ...
... Jedidia Newby, the thirteen-year-old leader of the neighborhood youth group;
Aunt Penny, the Hayeses' sixtyish live-in housekeeper; Charlotte and Noah's
group; Aunt Penny, the Hayeses' sixtyish live-in housekeeper; Charlotte and
Noah's ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIXTYISH»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
sixtyish is used in the context of the following news items.
Brian O'Neill: Mathis fan still in harmony with pop star after 50 years
Just Thursday, he got up at 4 a.m. in Los Angeles to work out, and when he later went grocery shopping, a sixtyish woman ran across the parking lot screaming ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
City Living: City Parking
In line next to me, at another window, was a sixtyish African-American woman with a cane. She apparently had a boot locked on her car. She asked how much it ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jul 15»
'Boulevard' review: Robin Williams makes so-so movie worthwhile
Williams plays Nolan Mack, a sixtyish suburban husband quietly dealing with his father's debilitating illness. Nolan's day is spent at his banking job, but his mind ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
Vamos a Baja Sur's Todos Santos
#“Be careful,” said the sixtyish snowy-haired gentleman with a matching white beard, weather-beaten face, gray twinkling eyes, and a wry smile hinting at some ... «San Diego Reader, Jul 15»
Dollar Store Evangelism
... who probably had already swiped several dozen last-minute gift bags across the scanner by this point in the day, smiled warmly at a sixtyish woman standing ... «Patheos, Mar 15»
IS IT TIME COLLEGE WENT EXTINCT?
Even sixtyish Americans did better. In fact, our current college crowd did so badly, that a spokesman for ETS called their scores “abysmal.” American public ... «NewsWithViews.com, Mar 15»
Top 10 Best Movies
Sixtyish actor Riggin Thomson (Michael Keaton) hates that he is remembered only for a comic-book movie hero, Birdman, that made him a star decades earlier. «TIME, Dec 14»
Wildrose 'fires' MLA Joe Anglin, who continues to sit as Wildrose MLA
The sixtyish Anglin was polite about it Saturday night, gracefully Tweeting congratulations to Nixon after the 34-year-old challenger won by a vote of 242 to 122. «rabble.ca, Jul 14»
Bright Days Ahead – film review
She and her character are sixtyish, but love doesn't end for the brave. She romances the hunky, fortyish boss of a seniors' club. Will hubby take her back after ... «Financial Times, Jun 14»
Cannes Film Review: 'Party Girl'
Sixtyish Angelique (Angelique Litzenburger) has lived all her adult life working in late-night cabaret bars, socializing with male customers on the condition that ... «Variety, May 14»
