Kitschy, other-directed places are the rule in downtown shopping and entertainment districts (where they reach perhaps their purest expression in the cityscape of pornography or 'pornscape'), in the roadside strips which fringe most cities, and in almost all tourist centres.

the patient did not wake, but tossed about on the dirty pillow, and grew hotter every moment.

At one rather telling point, [Jeremy] Hunt accused Boris [Johnson] of 'peddling optimism' by trying to guarantee we would definitely leave the EU on October 31. Boris's bread-and-circuses response – 'People want a bit of optimism, Jeremy!' – drew wild applause from the 200-odd crowd.

It was some time before Johnstone recovered the full use of his faculties; his eyes unclosed but to stare fixedly upon the bank, which, however, was now unoccupied.