How do you mould a single European people out of the lumpen masses scattered across the continent?

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Now it's a consumer products company, which means it is obliged to be nice to us lumpen non-IBMers.

FORBES: The Laptop Lament

But they appear neither to be more satisfied with their jobs nor to work any harder than their lumpen comrades.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

The "officers" in his terrorist militia are educated Muslims, not lumpen proletariat.

FORBES: Why the Middle East doesn't work

But the conceit is smartly wrought, so much so that the attempts at comic relief (using a CGI chipmunk and Timothy Spall as a henchman) seem not just lumpen but superfluous.

NEWYORKER: Enchanted

BT, what comes back is a lumpen sullenness.

ECONOMIST: The slow progress of fast wires

In his quest to find the next batch of freaks and hopefuls to appear on the show, the host happens first upon Sally (Mandy Moore), an innocent small-town schemer with a lumpen boyfriend (Chris Klein), and then upon Omer (Sam Golzari), an Arab terrorist on a personal crusade not so much to blow up the world as to dazzle it with show tunes.

NEWYORKER: American Dreamz