(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.
Unthinking
Definition:
(a.) Not thinking; not heedful; thoughtless; inconsiderate; as, unthinking youth.
(a.) Not indicating thought or reflection; thoughtless.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the majority of EU member states, including the UK, do not have a direct interest in the CAR, or in taking action, the alternative is unthinkable.
(2) This deal also promotes the separation of the single market and single currency – a British objective for many years that would have been unthinkable in the Maastricht era.
(3) For example, the old-school-tie brigade viewed the prospect of an alliance with the Soviet Union to confront Hitler as almost unthinkable at one time, but in due course had to stomach it.
(4) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(5) If the Senate refuses to pass a strengthened version of the USA Freedom Act this summer, reformers should consider what 24 hours ago was unthinkable: abandon the bill and force Section 215 of the Patriot Act to expire once and for all in 2015.
(6) Kipling deliberately concealed something of himself, but did not seek to conceal the truth about the nature of imperial power; Wodehouse exposed himself, and thereby inadvertently exposed something of the double standards of the system of power in which he unthinkingly believed.
(7) The notion of an unconnected unknown like him winning an equivalent prize in Spain was, he said, unthinkable.
(8) There have even been signs that Löw is becoming slightly restless, having started to criticise players in public, something that would have been unthinkable a few years back.
(9) If an agreement were to materialise – which would have been unthinkable a month ago – it could produce a solid unity government able to take the necessary bold decisions to crack down on the militias and renew major public infrastructure projects.
(10) I don't mean in the sense that the taxpayer would have to pick up the pieces if it went under, but in the sense that the social networking service has achieved a position of such dominance in the online ecosystem that its eclipse is unthinkable.
(11) Seduced into believing they could be a big influencer in Platini’s new Fifa, they rushed unthinkingly to back him.
(12) So this unthinking assumption that an independent Catalonia would be kept out [of the EU] is false.
(13) Here's a sample: Having watched this fantastically unthinking and heavy-handed adaptation, the opening gala of this year's Cannes festival, I feel the only way to make it less subtle would be to let Michael Bay direct it.
(14) I talked to a couple of heads and the atmosphere was: you've done the unthinkable.
(15) It should not be a shock he’s not going to be a deficit hawk.” Trump has no intention of shrinking the federal government, Sykes added, and his praise of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, would have been unthinkable to cold warrior Reagan.
(16) Strong stuff Adair Turner is not a fan of legislating for a Glass-Steagall approach to breaking up the banks, but the FSA chairman has been voicing previously unthinkable thoughts.
(17) Moody's has warned that a US default is unlikely, but no longer unthinkable, and put America's credit rating on negative watch .
(18) It is also unthinking because it takes little account of the pending impact of the falling terms of trade and the sluggish domestic economy, which is being held back by chronic weakness in consumer sentiment and fickle business conditions.
(19) To lose one director general was catastrophic; to make a second wrong appointment, unthinkable.
(20) For many who already have one condition, it is unthinkable to have both.