Her cheekes lyke apples which the sun hath rudded

Financial capital and multinational companies impose an austeritarian turn (austerity and authoritarianism).

A few moments later that malodorous mist tore apart like the shreds of an old shirt and drifted away on a cool night breeze. The moon shone down once more upon the waters of the Lake. / ‘You see,’ Haroun told his father, ‘it wasn’t only a story, after all.’ / Rashid actually laughed out loud in delight. ‘You’re a blinking good man in a tight spot, Haroun Khalifa,’ he said with an emphatic nod. ‘Hats off to you.’ / ‘Gullible Mr Rashid,’ cried Snooty Buttoo, ‘surely you don’t believe the lad’s hocusing and pocusing? Freak weather conditions came, and then went. No more to be said.’

Quite half of them were those hen-witted middle-aged women who have lately escaped from good Christian homes and are trying to be literary.