scrivening

In her book Handwriting in America: A Cultural History, Tamara Plakins Thornton investigates how our scrivening came to “embody, regulate, and generate notions of the self.”

One does dread risking pretension when scrivening about the telly, but the show begs comparison with un incomparable spectacle de Jacques Tati.

To what god or devil had he sold his soul that he was thus condemned to eternal scrivening?

He is 28, has been scrivening since he published an article in the Atlantic Monthly on student government at Kent School while he was a student there.

For example the District Officers, many of them Britons of fine calibre doing their best for local Indian communities but harassed by having to write interminable reports to the Centre, were given a kindly hint by the Viceroy to ease up on this scrivening and get out on more camping trips among the people.