Sentences with phrase «unwashed meglomaniacs»

Serious authors shouldn't even consider joining the unwashed masses, at least as far as she is concerned.

If you are worried that an author might be self - published and, therefore, part of the unwashed wannabe literati, there's a wonderful think you can do with almost every e-book retailer out there: download a sample.

And, since I am one of the unwashed indie authors the blogger for the Guardian complained about, here is my bit of self - promotion:

They are NOT consuming the great quantities of unwashed content produced by the unqualified masses.

The act of reading self - published books is akin to having to smell other people's unwashed (read unedited) underwear.

A girlfriend whose sickly - sweet incense and musky perfume coated Vladimir's unwashed skin, perhaps to remind him of what he could expect on this, the night of his birthday: Sex.

Whatever it takes to - But the larger of the men took three paces forward and in what felt to Rowena like slow - motion (she had time to smell stale sweat and wet leather and unwashed hair, to see the small dark eyes and big head, the pores around his nose) raised the butt of the shotgun and smashed it into her face.

(Yes, there's an appeals process in which a committee could decide your worthiness on a case - by - case basis, but I didn't get the feeling that opened a lot of doors for the great unwashed.

When Self - Pubs, those unwashed masses, start raking in sales and profits on a par with THEIR authors — and, in some cases, even more — what's the incentive for new authors to sign up?

Or perhaps the Authors Guild only wants «intellectual culture» to exist behind closed doors, at invitation - only events, far away from the prying eyes of the unwashed masses.

«A few brand names at the top, a mass of unwashed titles down below, the middle hollowed out: the book business in the age of Amazon mirrors the widening inequality of the broader economy.»

As long as the «unwashed masses» demand the product, there is going to be a market for it.

The shower had removed the musty odor of rumpled sheets and unwashed hair I'd wrapped myself in for the past several weeks since I'd taken to wearing my own stink as protection, as a way to mark the only territory I had left: myself.

When they said, «Dinner is ready,» we rushed the tablecloth, hands unwashed.

When Irish photographer Mark Nixon created portraits of cherished stuffed animals — «the more loved, unwashed, and falling apart the better» — and posted photos from the exhibit on his website, he was unprepared for the reaction.People around the world were transfixed by Nixon's tender, haunting — and sometimes...

Now, with the advent of self - pubbing, the barbarians avoid the gates altogether and enter through the side door, much to the dismay of the elitist NY - pubbed authors, who see their private club being infected willy - nilly by hordes of unwashed indie writers.

I only roll my eyes at trad pub and its hand - maidens when they automatically turn up their noses at indie as the great unwashed.

Is there no degradation we unwashed and unpublished writers must endure?

Readership is growing slowly, and that's okay, because I'm not sure I could handle the unwashed masses all demanding my attention * now * anyway.

But the longer that direct submission system forces the really unwashed new writers to agents who are failing, the more editors and publishers will look into the indie published books for possible purchases.

Sometimes they would die after, because their wounds were unable to stop bleeding, or the unwashed tools of their own surgeon had given them a fevered infection that consumed their flesh from the inside out.

Then Amazon opened up a new frontier — a virtual bookshop with unlimited shelf space — and the unpublished and unwashed mass of writers went there.

she said, throwing the book down on her unwashed, non - authentic linoleum floor.

They will accept queries from the unwashed....

Yet it seems that the great unwashed prefer Crossovers and SUVs instead.

this time, they serviced the brakes on her car but left the interior of the car filthy and unwashed.

Maybe the company would smooth out the styling, or throw a strong V6 in it, so as not to upset the unwashed masses...

Maybe the company would smooth out the styling, or throw a strong V6 in it, so as not to upset the unwashed masses OR the crunchy greenies?

Yet Princeton aspires to be a palace that gates out the great unwashed.

If you don't think like them, then your are part of the great unwashed, your an idiot, your a loser, or in Malloy's own words during one of the debates, that even Jonathan approved of, calling people you don't agree with, a homophobic sexual demeaning action (teabaggers)

At the junior - high school, students also were passing around unwashed towels in the locker room and some boys were sliding naked through puddles of water on the locker room floor, Ingle said.

This includes tons of unwashed used clothing, spoiled canned goods, and other big truckloads of things that people are obviously just trying to give away but we can not use.

Children from the least and most deprived backgrounds are out there — there's no fancy cool kit, or uncool kit, there's no unwashed or forgotten kit, there's no time spent changing.

It's not unusual for countries to propagate their language (as well as their literature, their culture, etc.) among the heathen and unwashed of other lands.

Spade's title character is an unattractive, unwashed janitor at a Los Angeles radio station who is brought on the air by a DJ (Dennis Miller, one of the film's few bright spots) for the sole intention of being an object of ridicule.

The danger implied is the sort that draws in passer - by interest, but what unwashed viewers won't anticipate is that it's dread, not action, that fuels the movie's thrills.

Plodding through the fatigue of maternity with their signature staccato sarcasm, Reitman and Cody thrust heaping honesty and, more importantly, heart higher than any possible pile of overdue laundry or unwashed dishes.

No «all grown up» Daveigh Chase with horribly unwashed hair.

Confounded though he is, Softley seems loath to speculate why the great unwashed picked this moment to exercise good taste.

The result is Sucker Punch, a deafening, abrasive fantasy that blends burlesque, anime, Moulin Rouge, and Girl, Interrupted in a sickly soup, served in an unwashed bowl of noise.

On This Week's Show: Neil returns from the pit of the Great Unwashed, otherwise known as Fantastic Fest.

Not only that but it'll be playable in the hands of the great unwashed masses.

While there's a sense that Hoffman could do this kind of thing in his sleep, there's a masterful specificity to his performance — you can see it in the sad little shuffle he does when he tries to run (like it ever matters where Harold is going or how fast he gets there), and even in the way his unwashed gray hair clumps together when he's hospitalized for the head injury that brings his kids together and defines the second half of the film.

Personally, I love the Gamepad, and even if I only get off - screen play with the majority of games, I'm very much ok with that, even if it doesn't help to sell the system to the unwashed masses.

The film offers the opportunity to watch her, as she blankly observes the unwashed masses of Northern Scotland doing people things.

The unwashed talent and originality of «The Talent Given Us» makes it a compelling and fascinating film.

... l feels like a Hollywood vision of the way the ignorant and unwashed comport themselves.

He stands around brooding as the unwashed masses fawn over him.

Scotland, United Kingdom About Blog Scottish Rugby Philosopher, Honoured member of SCRUM (Scottish Rugby's Unwashed Meglomaniacs) offers his thoughts on the major issues of the day as they affect the world of Scottish Rugby.

When a man turns up with scruffy ripped jeans and unwashed hair to a fancy restaurant, we're not going to be impressed by his nonchalant attitude.