Prune-like eyes
A clever lawyer who bides his time and slowly, quietly hoovers up the assets of dissolute aristocrats, while ever fawning...
Worm-like creature
Balint is one of the most engaging characters in Banffy's splendid trilogy of novels covering the closing decades of the...
Camphor-smelling claw
Balint is the splendid principal character in this tapestried look at the decline of Hungary's aristocracy before the First World...
Shoe-button eyes
Banffy's trilogy of novels on the slow but certain self-destruction of the 19th century Hungarian aristocracy includes the figure of...
Tear-wringing phrases
Can you sense in this triologism that the moving eloquence of this politician is a little too practised and contrived?...
Ahead of his time
While I believe that 'cold statistics' properly deployed, can in fact help us take account of people's feelings and traditions,...
Szkupcsina
This intriguing word turned up in Miklos Banffy's superb Transylvanian Trilogy, tracing the decline of the Hungarian aristocracy in the...
Hedgehog-like attorney
This is from an excellent trilogy by the Hungarian writer Miklos Banffy, chronicling the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and...
Of cornelian cherries
We often read of 'cherry-red' so I found it refreshing to find cherries described as resembling the red of cornelian,...
Shovel-shaped antlers
Recently saw a David Attenborough programme showing such flat-planed antlers. Here they are spotted in the forest regions of Transylvania.
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Sickle-shaped curves
We speak of 'hair-pin bends' for sharply curved roads, and I liked this place-and-time relevant equivalent. It is from a...
Ink-licking notary
Love this triologism, ink-licking, you can imagine smudgy blue fingertips and grubby blots on his cuffs.
The speaker may be...
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