How do you mould a single European people out of the lumpen masses scattered across the continent?

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Now it's a consumer products company, which means it is obliged to be nice to us lumpen non-IBMers.

FORBES: The Laptop Lament

But they appear neither to be more satisfied with their jobs nor to work any harder than their lumpen comrades.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

But the conceit is smartly wrought, so much so that the attempts at comic relief (using a CGI chipmunk and Timothy Spall as a henchman) seem not just lumpen but superfluous.

NEWYORKER: Enchanted

BT, what comes back is a lumpen sullenness.

ECONOMIST: The slow progress of fast wires