But partisan politics aside, the growing lumpishness of American thinking about jobs is dangerous, in two ways.

Ish felt a sense of irritation at George's lumpishness.

Her hat too was a change from the careless lumpishness of last year, a hat that, to a feminine mind, would have indicated design.

Yet, as Violet Hunt ironically observed, Jessie was, in her very lumpishness, "the perfect wife for an author."

His features were sharp and fine, and there was none of the lumpishness and blotched skin which had plagued Figis at the inn.

But there is lump as well as leaven in Mr. Carver, and the lumpishness is more irksome because it feels intentional.

As they trooped back toward the castle in the fading light, sweat- ing and huffing like plow oxen, Simon noted with approval that Jeremias was beginning to lose some of his lumpishness.