“... what perhaps once felt like style or dash, Belmondo’s pathetic attempts to cut a figure. The white socks, the thick tweed jackets with the wide shoulders, the assertive Windsor knot in the tie, the tilted hats, the permanent, drooping, half-smoked cigarette, the carefully rehearsed gestures like the running of the thumb across the mouth, the ...”

“... mayor who supported him were shot and killed in 1978 by another, resentful supervisor called Dan White. White served five years for manslaughter and committed suicide soon after his release. The film opens over black and white footage of police rounding up and beating up gays in the ...”

“... are created unequal, the United States has attempted to come to terms with its longue durée of white supremacy only twice in its history. The first effort, made by black and white abolitionists in the period of nationalist expansion, and caught up in the conflict between slave and free labour modes of production, brought ...”

“... our chairs. Examine your fingertips! If they are black, it is already too late. End of August The white bellies of dead fish loom among duckweed and rushes. Crows have wings to enable them to escape death. There are times I know that God is most concerned with the fate of snails. He builds them houses. We are not His favourites. At night, the bus taking the ...”

“... an Andean town in the north of Peru. Using the word for a child of mixed heritage (his father was white, his mother was Indigenous), he referred to himself as ‘your unforgettable cholo’; ‘machetón’ (‘big machete’) is what his schoolmates called him, on account of his beaky nose. Later, he was just ‘un drôle d’étranger’. The few ...”

“... similes, and coined one of the best metaphors in Victorian fiction when he wrote of ‘coveys of white cups, clustered about brown-hens of teapots’. Surtees was a brilliant user of the language, with an idiom that falls foul of accusations of bad grammar and carelessness, but also possesses the improvisatory variety and boldness of birdsong. He was ...”

“... precipice technique applied to pubic hair. Fingers do the walking, tiny feet wave in mid-air. His white ladies groan under the weight of swollen members. ... The four estates of Japanese society – fishermen, actors, courtesans and samurai – mixing it. Following no useful calling, anonymous in their nakedness, lovers clutch each other. We might be watching ...”

“... Like a surge of energy from the engines. Now he lies stiff and full of chemicals In precarious white hat and purple slippers Saying the rosary over and over. It all depends on the embalmer’s craft. The Poles cry out for his leathery heart. John Paul was musarum sacerdos (part-time) And you, Eddie, are a priest of the muses too (Aquarian Order), your ...”

“... to understand for himself – and so do the journalists who write about him. Or most of them. Michael Wolff never planned to write a book about the president just as Trump never planned to become president. Wolff remained uncertain about his book’s prospects in the days leading to its publication in mid-January, though things began to look up when he ...”

“... pigeons, ‘flying rats’, go over what is left. Rough-necked, microcephalous, they have too much white on their bodies, like calcium defectives. The pigeons mate in full view: some preliminary billing, then the male flutters his wings as though to break a fall ... They inhabit a ruined chiropodist’s, coming and going freely through broken windows into ...”

“... 38-year-old shoemaker from Philadelphia was finally arrested in 1975, he and his 14-year-old son Michael had murdered and then castrated a little Puerto Rican boy, José Collazo, whom they happened to meet on the street; they had tied another of Joe’s sons, Joey, to a ladder and watched him drown in a pool of water on an abandoned building site; they had ...”

“... are antique shops in Stockbridge, where antique seems to mean the day before yesterday. And grand white wooden houses, behind evergreen trees, houses which turn out to be lunatic asylums. Stockbridge, peaceful home of Norman Rockwell, the people’s artist, who gave Middle America what it wanted. Stockbridge, where Melville said something unmemorable to ...”

“... the 1970s and cuts to last year, and documentary footage of the Charlottesville riots, where white supremacists marched wielding Nazi flags, and others protested. One of the supremacists drove a car into a crowd, killing one person and injuring 19 others. Donald Trump magnanimously said there were ‘very fine people on both sides’, and in Lee’s film ...”

“... in my bed ... Suddenly the window opened of its own accord, and I was terrified to see that some white wolves were sitting on the big walnut tree in front of the window. There were six or seven of them. The wolves were quite white, and looked more like foxes or sheep-dogs, for they had big tails like foxes and they had ...”

“... in New York City. ‘It was wonderful, and revelatory as it always is,’ he told his friend Tony White. ‘I learn more about people and myself in NY than anywhere else. I got offered a job in a tough-queer 3rd Avenue bar the day before I left, and if I hadn’t been under contract to Berkeley I’d have accepted it’ (he’d been given a visiting ...”