It's not a happy situation, because Alfred, the old man, is spending quite a bit of time hallucinating.
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In Paris, she violates yet another social rubric by falling in love with a married man, a well-read, clever romantic who is also a bit of a cad.
He is a rotund man, perhaps a bit overweight, who smiles from behind steamy glasses.
Heady stuff indeed, but Ives, a wire-thin man who favors gin martinis as dry as his wit, is enjoying quite a bit of limelight after steadily building an unorthodox career first as a playwright of one-act comedies and lately as a sought-after theatrical medic.
The women are of the era when the only serious career offering was a husband and children, and in the novel all of them marry, except for a grammar-school teacher who is unable to find the right man and another woman who ends up a bit of a floozy.
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"He is a funny man, a kind man, a bit of a goofball and not very well-spoken, " Cordsen said.
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He sounds a bit like a man whose house is on fire begging firemen to spray a mix of water and kerosene on the flames.
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EU. Besides, say his opponents, Mr Klaus's concern for the wishes of ordinary Czechs is a bit rich, coming from the man who presided over the Czechoslovakian break-up without first bothering to test public opinion.
He is the man to beat and hopefully he will slow down a bit.
"Joe is a young man, and it'll take him a bit of time to bed down at fly-half, " said Hare.
One reason for this shift of power is the simple wish of an elderly man to enjoy life a bit.
Mr. Bernanke is at best the man on the bobsled, he can steer it a bit right or left but he cannot make it go uphill.
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It's a bit like the hypothetical judge who is quick to put a young man on probation for minor drug violations but then is extremely reluctant to lock him up when he reoffends.
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