- and can make up a spur-of-the
moment lie for any situation. He is an
inveterate schemer, and he is good at what he does. If his
plans failed, it was almost...
-
resented by his
fellow Athenians for his
patronising manner.
Atticus was an
inveterate opponent of
Stoicism and
philosophic pretensions. He
thought the Stoics'...
-
relationship lasted for 34 years, it
remained platonic. The
empress was an
inveterate traveller, horsewoman, and
fashion maven who was
rarely seen in Vienna...
- Street, where, at No. 6,
stood Mornington House.
Despite Wellington's own
inveterate distrust of newspapers, in this case they must be ****umed to know best...
- He was
canonised in 1320 by Pope John XXII. He has been
noted as "an
inveterate enemy of the Jews", and his
demands that they be
expelled from England...
- and she
found solace in the idea that such a
great saint was once an
inveterate sinner. In her autobiography, she
wrote that she "was very fond of St...
- friend,
gossip columnist Walter Winc****.
Hoover had a re****tion as "an
inveterate horseplayer" and was
known to send
Special Agents to
place $100 bets for...
- Brontë] was, however, in the more
flexible portion of her
curious nature inveterately influenced. She does not
precisely describe this scenery—not at any length ...
-
comparison with music, and male
humpback whales have been
described as "
inveterate composers" of
songs that are "'strikingly similar' to
human musical traditions"...
- his
final days in
London but was
emphatic that even as an
alcoholic and
inveterate pot-smoker, he was not a co-dependent
heroin user, and it
supported the...
