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In this way, first-rate peripatetic artists are consigned to the pantheon's banlieux rather than its 7th arrondissement.
His eyes are narrowed, his mustache conceals his mouth but is bracketed by laugh lines--he is made to denote some kind of perfunctory emotion, actual emotion being consigned to his grinning subjects.
Nominated for the Booker Prize in England, Desai's novel of a small-town family in India is deemed "splendid" (Gabriella Stern, the Wall Street Journal ). The two parts of the title refer to the internal structure of the book, the first half following the life of the family's plain and somewhat dim older daughter, who after failing to marry is consigned to the life of a glorified house servant.
The former “Intourist” shops which only took HUFand had a virtual monopoly on quality souvenirs have been consigned to the same scrap heap as the statues of Stalin.
And so we consigned many of the needy to care that would be flattered to be called second-class: to the "Medicaid Mills" or to poorly trained solo practitioners or to wait in long lines at hospital emergency rooms till the harried staff can find time to treat their kids' runny noses.