“That fellow,” said the old man, referring to the ill-dressed man on the curb, waiting for his bus, “is, with all due respect, very much like a savage living in the forest who has never seen a radio.” ❋ Mark Fisher (1996)
I have it in my head that the story I need to begin tomorrow will be set there, and, also, I wanted to see the waterfront, which is always too clogged with sweaty, ill-dressed tourists in the summer to bother with. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2009)
Acting on my advice, he had brought his "worst rags," and as we hiked up the London road out of Maidstone he was worrying greatly for fear we had come too ill-dressed for the business. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What's truly infuriating about the piece are the photos of wacky, ill-dressed actors doing their level best to make fun of asanas or yoga poses. ❋ Paul LaRosa (2012)
Becker: "The app, which would include instructional diagrams explaining how to dress for every possible DC function, should be a mandatory addition to the phones carried by hoards of fresh-faced, ill-dressed interns descending on Capitol Hill each summer." ❋ Ryan Grim (2011)
Even before the first race she'd decided to lose her mother as soon as possible, but meanwhile she couldn't understand why so many people instinctively smiled at the ill-dressed woman she had automatically relegated to one step behind her heels. ❋ Allie Dresser (2010)
"I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," said Mr. Holder. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This question, less gentle, comes from an ill-dressed man across the aisle. ❋ Cristina García (2010)
The ill-dressed man starts in again, raising his voice so that everyone can hear him. ❋ Cristina García (2010)
“And you are willing to make this awkward, ill-dressed, unmannered dowdy, your Countess, Etherington; you, for whose critical eye half the town dress themselves?” said Jekyl. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If I hadn't heard her voice, I would have thought that she was a very unattractive and ill-dressed old man! ❋ Unknown (2006)
As Ronnie Millar, the latter's speechwriter and a successful playwright, used to say in theatrical tones: She may be depressed, ill-dressed and having a bad hair day, but when the curtain rises, out onto the stage she steps looking like a billion dollars. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And forget about glamour: In Act I, she was a kid, gawky and ill-dressed; in Act V, a dying prisoner bound for exile, she was filthy, with cropped hair and a battered face, and got dragged unceremoniously across the stage like a broken doll. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Also you are to dress as many other people as you can; and to teach them how to dress if they don't know; and to consider every ill-dressed woman or child whom you see anywhere, as a personal disgrace; and to get at them, somehow, until everybody is as beautifully dressed as birds. ❋ Unknown (2007)
And yet, and yet there are so many people on the street who meet my criteria for an "ill-dressed...personal disgrace". ❋ Unknown (2007)
Maybe an "ill-dressed" man is not a disgrace because a fashionably dressed man is often perceived to be homosexual... ❋ Unknown (2007)
Why are ill-dressed men not a "personal disgrace" to them? ❋ Unknown (2007)
The planter-poet William Alexander Percy, whose memoir "Lanterns on the Levee" is the Ur-text of the Delta's aristocratic self-image, described a political crowd in the county where Lott was born as "ill-dressed, unintelligent and slinking -- the sort of people who lynch Negroes, attend revivals, and fight and fornicate in the bushes afterwards." ❋ Unknown (2007)
The old gentleman took him every evening, in an old carriage drawn by ill-harnessed old horses, attended by ill-dressed old servants, to royalist houses, where he met a society composed of the relics of the parliamentary nobility and the martial nobility. ❋ Unknown (2007)
