Melville is at times genial and at others
alcoholically embittered by the "ill fortune and lost fame" of his languishing literary career.
Top British traits are said to be wearing summer clothing at the first sight of the sun (understandable considering its reluctance to shine very often), apologising automatically, the ability to talk at length about the weather, making a cup of tea in a crisis, viewing queue jumping as the ultimate crime (which it is), forming a queue for anything, the stiff upper lip, grumbling through a meal but not complaining because you don't want a fuss, sarcastic/dry humour and having a beer at an airport even before 8am (which is mainly the practice of the young, foolish or
alcoholically dependent).
Can it understand Scouse - and furthermore,
alcoholically lubricated Scouse?
During this period, the incidences of driving while
alcoholically impaired began to decrease (NHTSA, 2004).
After insisting that he has not forgotten "what the inside of a church is made of" (3.3.8-9), a phrase which he emphatically repeats, he goes on to blame "company" for his "spoil." Shortly thereafter, he then launches upon an extraordinary declamation in which he likens Bardolph's
alcoholically reddened nose to a "memento mori" which will serve to remind Falstaff of Hell in salutary fashion, specifically the damned Dives in Christ's parable from the Gospel of Luke (3.3.30).
I'd like to say that I drank
alcoholically from the moment I picked up a drink.
She said: "I never drank
alcoholically because of my mother's alcohol problem, but I took drugs instead.