(1) But police described him as a "Walter Mitty character", a "Del Boy" who had eye-watering debts when arrested – he owed £8,000 in electricity bills alone.
(2) This time, however, the party has been made to look so absurd that even Farage has said he needs to professionalise his fledgling force and drive out the "Walter Mitty" characters damaging their reputation.
(3) It comes as Farage tries to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types after a stream of controversies.
(4) Mitty may be in his own little world, but he is not so disconnected from reality as to suggest a series of floods might be God's punishment for a change in the law allowing same-sex marriage.
(5) The letter's publication comes the day after Farage announced that he wanted to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types and create a "disciplined election machine".
(6) Not to the rogue Ukip officials and activists Farage was referring to, who have embarrassed the party with their off-message opinions – but to Walter Mitty.
(7) Nigel Farage says he wants to rid Ukip of its Walter Mitty figures .
(8) You would not have caught Mitty mocking a disabled student, asking him whether he was Richard III, as the MEP and Ukip member Godfrey Bloom did at the Oxford Union last week.
(9) James Bond, Star Trek , Batman , Star Wars , Fast and Furious , Thor and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty have all made use of Iceland’s stunning scenery, and the 20% expenses refund from the state.
(10) Farage's effort to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types comes after a stream of controversies, including the party's suspension of a councillor for blaming flooding on gay marriage and the ejection of MEP Godfrey Bloom following comments about women and sending foreign aid to "bongo-bongo land".
(11) O'Hagan portrays Assange as a Walter Mitty-like fantasist whose absorption with grand and unrealisable schemes prevents him from ever achieving anything practical.
(12) A Walter Mitty character with a bootlegging past in the US, Gavin Welby became the main figure in his son's life, especially after his divorce in 1959, when the boy was three.
(13) Ukip is yet to comment on Batten's remarks, which come after an effort by Farage to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types .
(14) It is also unlikely that Fox would have allowed "a Walter Mitty figure" to sit alongside him when he sat down for a social dinner with commander designate for Nato in Afghanistan at a Steakhouse in Tampa Florida.David Cameron said at prime minister's questions that he was waiting for the O'Donnell inquiry before deciding whether to sack Fox.
(15) So Farage is letting himself off too lightly when he announces that Ukip will now get a tighter grip on its candidate selection to keep out the Mittys.
(16) Among them were The Business Background of MPs (seven editions, 1959-80), Enoch Powell, Tory Tribune (1970), Lord On the Board (1972) and Sir Harold Wilson: Yorkshire Walter Mitty (1977).
(17) One friend said he was “eccentric to the extreme” and “bit of a Walter Mitty”, obsessed by palm-reading and known to sleep in his mum’s dressing gown and a fez.
(18) Nigel Farage's admission that Ukip has more than its fair share of Walter Mittys might look like the very latest in candour from the man who styles himself as a straight-talker, but it is in fact an insult.
(19) Walter Mitty's inner Walter Mitty is never rattled, however tight the corner; his peers marvel at his dauntless courage and are left breathless by the almost superhuman range of talents that real life never allows him to demonstrate.
(20) Police sources describe him as a "Walter Mitty character", a "Del Boy" who had eye-watering debts when he was arrested ‑ he owed £8,000 in electricity bills alone.
Rick
Definition:
(n.) A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
(v. t.) To heap up in ricks, as hay, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, and Rick Perry, the Texas governor, are both headed to South Carolina for most of the next week.
(2) Some will be here a day, some will be here weeks.” 9.14pm BST Earlier today, Texas governor Rick Perry declared McLennan County a disaster area and said he plans to request federal aid.
(3) Last June, Gov Rick Scott signed into law an ALEC bill that blocks local governments from implementing paid sick leave.
(4) Tour begins 22 November, NIA, Birmingham, thenia.co.uk Black Sabbath Still without original drummer Bill Ward, but with their first US No 1 album (the Rick Rubin-produced 13), the undisputed godfathers of metal play a handful of UK shows.
(5) Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, and Paul Ryan are all not so far-fetched names for a run in 2016.
(6) At this stage Rick is committed to solving the problem and I am going to do everything in my power to help … but I am also going to be waiting to see what the results of all this review process yields."
(7) At his presidential announcement last week, former Texas governor Rick Perry called the withdrawal from Iraq “a national disgrace” and argued that the US had “won” the war in 2009 only to see the Obama administration squander its victory by leaving.
(8) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
(9) The changes in the Arctic are also causing “major challenges” for the indigenous communities in the region, according to Rick Spinrad, Noaa’s chief scientist.
(10) Arguments over SB5 became personal when Texas governor Rick Perry accused Davis of failing to "learn from her mistakes" as a single teenage mother while speaking at a pro-life convention on Thursday.
(11) Several attempts to resolve the site's problems have failed to come to fruition, including masterplans by Sir Terry Farrell, Lord Richard Rogers and the late Rick Mather who drew up the last scheme in 2000.
(12) The early days in custody are a time of heightened suicide rick, and the Samaritans says it is crucial that awareness of the scheme and access to it is embedded into all reception and induction processes for new prisoners.
(13) It featured – and then featured the end of – a new character, Uncle Steve, and banter between Rick (Roiland) and his detested son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell).
(14) "It's a very, very large system," Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center, told Reuters.
(15) Tensions have erupted in recent days, after Kentucky senator Rand Paul attributed Trump’s surprise lead in recent opinion polls to a “ temporary loss of sanity ” among Republican primary voters and former Texas governor Rick Perry claimed his impact on the race represented a “ cancer ” on conservatism.
(16) "The Delta is a kind of Bangladesh story," says Dr Rick Tutwiler, director of the American University in Cairo's Desert Development Centre.
(17) At the core of the Ashmolean Museum 's spectacular new £5m Ancient Egyptian and Nubian galleries, designed by the architect Rick Mather and displaying one of the greatest collections outside Egypt, there lies a man who died almost 3,000 years ago – and has just been revealed as having no heart.
(18) Governor Rick Perry was due to announce a six-figure reward for information leading to arrests in the murders of McLelland and his wife.
(19) Warehime and Jones found moderate correlations between social desirability and short-term mood level scores on the Wessman-Ricks Personal Feeling Scales.
(20) There are online databases of fake rick-roll URLs, and countless jokers have created sham web-browser plugins purporting to block rick-rolls while instead sending visitors to you-know-what.