mantlepiece

• “Just in front of him on the mantlepiece was a photograph of his grandfather, old Jolyon, taken in his eighties — the last record of that old face, its broad brow, and white moustache, its sunken cheeks, deep, steady eyes, and strong jaw.”

  Swan Song

• “On the mantlepiece was a little old daguerreotype, slightly pinked in the cheeks, of his grandfather — ‘Superior Dosset’ set in a deep, enamelled frame.”

  Swan Song

• “On the walls of his bed-room and over the mantlepiece was a text emblazoned, on which at evening and morning he could look, which read:”

  The Grand Old Man

• “Family GuyFamily Guy inherited the dysfunctional family mantle - or perhaps mantlepiece, since it's still all suburban - and pushed the boundaries further than The Simpsons has in a long time, frequently offending at least eight separate special interest groups in one 23 minute show.”

  The Guardian: The Flintstones celebrate 50 year anniversary with a Google doodle

• “I gazed on the picture of my mother, which stood over the mantlepiece.”

  Chapter 6

• “Waking up the next morning, looking up at the grandiose corniced ceilings, marble mantlepiece and antique dressing table, I felt like a slightly less evil Marie Antoinette.”

  The Huffington Post: Louise Roe: Playing Princess In Paris: My 24 Hours At The Plaza Athenee

• “One almost expects to see some little Disney-like figures of our presidents on the mantlepiece, and some Venetian blinds at the windows.”

  The Huffington Post: Joan Z. Shore: A French Oval Office: Fit for a King

• “Today, when nuclear weapons have already become frightening mantlepiece decorations that are losing their real operational value with each passing day, financial war has become a “hyperstrategic” weapon that is attracting the attention of the world.”

  Those “self-executing rules”

• “In fact, because of her super-abilities and the intervention of a random genetic engineer in the epilogue a gun that was only barely and somewhat conveniently laid on the mantlepiece in the main narrative, she may be the future of humanity.”

  Archive 2010-05-01

• “Like that famous theatrical axiom that if there's a gun on the mantlepiece in the first act it had better be used by the final act, once you've stuck in a character like that, he's gotta do what he's gotta do: if he doesn't do anything, he shouldn't even be there.”

  The first sentence I wrote yesterday...

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