This is the Dickensian era for America's largest minority, representing both the best of times and the worst of times.

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Clearly, the modern day cubicle is more human than the Dickensian sweatshop, just as Skype is more personal than a telephone.

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Mr Jones, who tends to speak with the precision of a Dickensian solicitor, has turned down the chance to correct his inaccurate comment.

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Expect the wheels to grind with Dickensian tardiness.

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His chance to flee their Dickensian gloom comes with the appearance of a magic peach in the garden: he crawls inside, where he finds a posse of insect friends, and travels by air and sea to an improbably benign New York.

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The case of Marshall v Marshall, a name suitably Dickensian, started almost as soon as Marshall died in 1995.

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