THEY have been improbable soul-mates, the silver-tongued British barrister and the drawling Republican from Texas.
Several English Tories proved that "I told you so" makes for terrible diplomacy, too-drawling invitations for Ireland to hurry back to currency union with the pound.
There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender, of wrong measurements and feeble impulses.
His drawling, cracker-barrel soliloquies overflow with crusty red-state sentiments that may or may not represent the author's feelings but probably don't violate them terribly.
He is not a drawling toff. His is a brisk, self-confident form of poshness: think of a young officer in one of the smarter regiments, getting on with the job in some global hotspot.
