And his turn of phrase is as arresting as Runciman's own—one family friend is "unceremonious, crapulous".
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Should you become a writer, brace yourself for the analphabetic rantings of the anonymous, the frivolous, the platitudinous and crapulous.
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So we wound up on a bar crawl with the rest of the 18-30 gang, crapulous Brits, flags flying half-mast, gawking at broads, sinking ever lower in a Lethe of Alcopops.
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By Katharine Susannah Prichard #Silence. By Ethel Archer #Memory of Love. By Meredith Starr #Across the Gulf. By Aleister Crowley #The Temple of Solomon the King ("Continued") #My Crapulous Contemporaries.
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By Ethel Archer #An Evocation of Bartzabel the Spirit of Mars #The Testament of Magdalen Blair #Ercildoune. By Aleister Crowley #Athanasius Contra Decanum #My Crapulous Contemporaries. No. VII. A Galahad in Gomorrah #How I Became a Famous Mountaineer.
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Lanning, 2009, pp. 193–196 Heavy drinking among senior British officers is well documented. William Howe was said to have seen many "crapulous mornings" while campaigning in New York. John Burgoyne drank heavily on a nightly basis towards the end of the Saratoga campaign.
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She was conscious of her weak performances and frequently cried between shows. Virginia Woolf was among the audience at the Bedford Music Hall on 8 April 1921 and described Lloyd as "A mass of corruption – long front teeth – a crapulous way of saying 'desire', and yet a born artist – scarcely able to walk, waddling, aged, unblushing."Gillies, p. 271 In April 1922, Lloyd collapsed in her dressing room after singing "The Cosmopolitan Girl" at the Gateshead Empire in Cardiff.
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In 2000, Shaw staged a show at the ICA, London, of Thrift Store Paintings--paintings he had collected by (mostly anonymous) amateur artists in America. Some reactions to this show included Adrian Searle of The Guardian stating "The paintings are awful, indefensible, crapulous…", "these people can't draw, can't paint; these people should never be left alone with a paintbrush", and "The Thrift Store Paintings are fascinating, alarming, troubled and funny. Scary too, just like America.""What the Critics Say - Jim Shaw at the ICA", newsletter 2, artrumour.
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Jensen, Founding of a Nation, 669. Even some American revolutionaries objected to Common Sense; late in life John Adams called it a "crapulous mass". Adams disagreed with the type of radical democracy promoted by Paine (that men who did not own property should still be allowed to vote and hold public office) and published Thoughts on Government in 1776 to advocate a more conservative approach to republicanism. Sophia Rosenfeld argues that Paine was highly innovative in his use of the commonplace notion of "common sense".
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Hutchison was tall, gaunt and appeared rather stooping. His students found his wit to be "caustic" sometimes, reaching "towards sadism in such alliterative condemnations of themselves as a curious collection of crapulous cretins creeping from crib to crib", and making "a newcomer cringe with such reminders as that 'he was percussing a child’s lung not the cellars in the basement'". Yet, his students respected and admired him because, they "sensed that his individual method of teaching was really in part a pose, an assumption of cynicism, that failed to hide a mind that was intellectually gay and a heart that felt deeply for all human suffering, especially the sufferings of children, though seldom for the sufferings of a candidate for the College Membership". Many of Dr Hutchison’s clinical sayings became popular with his contemporaries and future generations.
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