The combination of cheapness and bluster, of all-purpose hostility and infallible miscalculation, delivered in inimitably Lardnerian prose, make Jack an exasperating yet endearing and enduring figure, propelled on a sure road to destruction.
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Folklorist Jenny Butler describes how Irish pagans pick some elements of historic Samhain celebrations and meld them with references to the Celtic past, making a new festival of Samhain that is inimitably part of neo-pagan culture.
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Or, as Bush put it inimitably : " As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida, led by Jim Baker ."
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Patriots fans Monday morning might be pointing to a stagnant offense that failed to score a touchdown or a defense that couldn't stop the Raiders when it had to, but coach Bill Belichick summed it up in his inimitably succinct way.
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Some three-score of Chekhov's previously uncollected stories were rounded up ( never mind that they were uncollected for a reason ); likewise the complete short fiction of Evelyn Waugh ( who would have scowled inimitably at such a desperate venture ).
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That style served her well in playing Oscar Wilde's inimitably snobbish Lady Bracknell in " The Importance of Being Earnest " in 1987 and a year later as the elegant Southern-Jewish widow in " Driving Miss Daisy ."
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Another acclaimed masterpiece was " It's a Wonderful Life, " an inimitably Capraesque work with, again, a close call for suicide : " You're worth more dead than alive, " the rich man tells Stewart.
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Richard Haslop has commented that " Africa's Not for Sissies is a trenchant, if inimitably humorous and often moving reflection on his own status as a white South African committed to living in a country that so many of his compatriots were leaving ."
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Ellen Moers, in her discerning 1960 study " The Dandy, " notes that Brummel impressed not by flamboyance but by the rigid perfection of his spotless linen, simple ornaments, polished Hessian boots, a plain blue jacket and a cravat inimitably folded.
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The inimitably leathery Postlethwaite _ who also co-stars in " The Lost World : Jurassic Park " _ brings to Danny the same aggrieved tenderness and concern that won him an Academy Award nomination for " In the Name of the Father ."
