(1) Unlike the vecindades, which remained segregated and were always a space for the working classes and urban lumpen — even if they were appropriated as icons and romanticised by the middle and upper classes — the azoteas began to be inhabited by members of the middle-class intelligentsia during the early 20th century.
(2) "These women were not lumpen, ignorant workers," Pearson stresses.
(3) The project is called Butterfly, and the metaphor is immediate: a splendid winged object is soon to emerge from a lumpen chrysalis.
(4) The Odalisk Location: Croydon | Floors: 55 | Height: 199m | Architect: CZWG | Status: approved | Use: residential and hotel The Odalisk "The days of drab grey buildings are at an end," pronounced Piers Gough when he unveiled his design for the Odalisk, a self-consciously whacky totem pole for Croydon, planned to house a four-star Intercontinental Hotel and luxury serviced apartments within in its lumpen shell.
(5) Brought to Mexico during the conquest in the 16th century, but transformed into the sort of living quarters we know today during the mid-19th century, the vecindades were the typical dwelling space for working-class families, and in them the urban lumpen were crammed into small rooms that surrounded a common patio.
(6) Rangers, for all their lumpen first half, were level at 2-2.
(7) Speaking out has not empowered them as it should: they remain a lumpen mass of unfortunate people to whom unfortunate things were done.
(8) The result is a vast “lumpen commentariat” who have the right to say anything so long as none of it leaves a lasting impression.
(9) I get the impression that although the eICE team was set up in 1999 and has been bashing away relentlessly, it has not made much progress in educating the lumpen mass of clinicians to make them ready for the digital age.
(10) The structure, with its lumpen authorial interpolations, is painting by numbers: here is one of many possible examples from early in the novel when the rich father of the hero is speaking of his journey through the Alps to be reunited with his mistress (whom he addresses as a sparrow): “‘Ah!
(11) Will the electorate, the great lumpen mass of obviously stupid people, swallow it?
(12) For a while, she "got on" with her marriage, socialising with thick-necked men in polo shirts and women for whom she says no other word but "lumpen" will do.
(13) So when Matthew Dear plays London's Boiler Room club night, with everyone else's clothing lumpen and translucent with sweat, it's a pleasure to see him imperious in an elegantly rumpled white collared shirt and gothic Teddy Boy hair.
(14) It still seems odd to me that the lumpen, guitar-fuelled Britpop years followed its release, the old order re-establishing itself in the most conservative fashion as if Blue Lines had never happened.
(15) When Moore and Lloyd started their comic serial V for Vendetta in 1981 in a magazine called Warrior, British children still made rude effigies of the great inflammable Catholic and wheeled their lumpen creations around demanding "a penny for the Guy": today Halloween has taken over in children's culture and, in many parts of Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is merely Bonfire Night, with fireworks but no effigy.
(16) They are not the lumpen electorate your writer considers them to be, as can be seen in the votes for the other two candidates.
(17) Her last novel, The Cleft, a dystopian fantasy that depicted the female sex - the eponymous "clefts" - as lumpen and lazy, but handy with a broom, and the men as inquisitive, adventurous "squirts", left some female critics spluttering.
(18) His day-to-day style – if that is not too extravagant a word – consists of several dull variations on the proletarian outfit of ill-fitting T-shirt, baggy jeans, free airline socks – "Lufthansa are the best" – and lumpen footwear surely sold exclusively by a Slovenian shoeshop that has somehow missed the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
(19) The Riot boys are nasty but beautiful and exuberant; the proles are worthy but lumpen, in both body and spirit.
Lumpenproletariat
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(1) But Tehran's tech-savvy are far from Frantz Fanon 's lumpenproletariat.