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Booklist - QQI Level 5 Childcare - Early Childhood Care and Education
That age “progressively destroys” women, but not men, is the crux of what Susan Sontag termed the double standard of aging, back in 1972.
Ashley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
ou can hear in the delaying rhythms of the opening sentence the influence of Marcel Proust and the digressive, paid-by-the-word style of Thomas De Quincey, whose essays Woolf had lately looked into for the first time
Literary Hub • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
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a lady of uncertain age in a lilac blouse,
W. G. Sebald • Austerlitz (Penguin Essentials)
She occupies her days with clothing – in the mending and embellishment of it for purposes theatrical and ecclesiastical, in ironing and starching it; even sometimes in constructing new garments out of old ones, and wearing them through Aldleigh in the knowledge that she is seen and admired and enviously mocked.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Hanslip’s weakness was a somewhat ostentatious self-presentation. He affected an old-fashioned style, and had had his metabolism tweaked so that he stabilised at about ten per cent overweight: enough to give him a more solid look without requiring frequent adjustments to the heart.
