to take Joe a cup of tea while he was de-thatching and reseeding the lawn (and give him brilliant advice, lucky man) and gaze at the tulips and daffodils blooming . . . note how good they look with a white picket fence!
Claiming my characters too openly might have invoked the same judgment that I’d been hearing my entire life: that the child looked nothing like the parents. I hadn’t read all of Cheever. My house was not edged by a picket fence. I did not stare moodily out of windows, nurturing dark...
293). Frank Molloy comments here: “Despite being responsive to instances of injustice […] Peter Carey’s Ned Kelly is no Irish freedom fighter. […] Decent toil and a white picket fence are his goals; it is almost suburban” (Molloy 2003, p. 109). This gendering of home within a ...
However, the things happened in China lost its all meaning for vending or self-service. Wherever you see such a machine, you will see a person standing by. He’s not there to teach you how to use the machine; instead, he’s there to make sure you pay for the drink you get and ...
While the former couple haven’t posed for any pics together, Disick did snap a selfie for Instagram, writing, “On that white picket fence s**t.” This post has been made private or deleted by the post’s owner. It’s been more than a year since the pair ended their almost ...
You begin to become unhinged and increasingly reliant on denial and projection to stay behind the picket fence of your preferred ism. Hence much of the paranoia of our age. Monochrome is a little threatened by red, yellow and blue, which it secretly wants to become. Uncomplicated belief ...
The unshakeable belief that you know what’s going on and what must happen next is compensation that’s essential to Narcissism’s going-on-being. Its like having a super strong patching over an otherwise rickety picket fence, sections of the Great Wall of China interrupted by square miles of...
Oh, poor me, there is so much wickedness out there in the world beyond my gleaming picket fence, but at least there is Hope that someone might come along and do something about it. As though it were a good thing. Hope. Be passive. Wait. ...