In fact, politics are inconsequential to the action of " Il Trovatore, " and Moshinsky's sloppy take, like Vick's donnish one, self-destructed on arrival.
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The story's central gambit has Lester joining Dashiell's group therapy sessions ( led by an amusingly donnish Peter Bogdanovich ) so he can find out more about Dashiell, Ramona's famous ex.
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The ubiquitous, often derogatory references to Ivory's donnish, Brahmin sensibility-he is the pole directly opposite of the Quentin Tarantinos of the film world-are clearly familiar to him, and not entirely welcome.
14.
Pivot's easy charm, intellectual curiosity and boyish enthusiasm have contributed to his popularity : with his donnish tweed jacket and half-moon glasses, he is a welcome guest in any book-lined sitting room.
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Harris also faults the editors'" donnish conservatism " and their adherence to prudish Victorian morals, citing as an example the non-inclusion of " various centuries-old'four-letter words'" until 1972.
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It also allows room for O'Brian's donnish drolleries-- short asides playing on words like " loggerheads " and " cloisonne, " the innocently off-color conversation between Stephen and the young lady anatomist.
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Although Sir Colin presents himself as a diffident, soft-spoken man-- the word " donnish " springs to an American's mind-- he has nonetheless earned a reputation in Britain as a fearless and articulate artist-philosopher.
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One can choose between the Honorable Recluse, a style epitomized by Sean Connery, who wears a donnish salt-and-pepper beard in " Finding Forrester, " and the Gentleman Jock, represented by Mark McGwire, the Cardinals'slugger.
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In that context, the " Dossier " can . . . look like a cheeky two-fingered salute to the academic world, a farewell raspberry blown at all things pedantically donnish, in a manner Lucky Jim would surely have approved.
20.
The plain-speaking Judge McDonald brought a slight Texas tang to an international buffet of accents : the upscale Australian English of Grant Niemann, who opened for the prosecution; the Dutch English of Michail Wladimiroff and Alfons Orie for the defense; the donnish locutions of Gow.
