10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLIMPISHLY»
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he exploded blimpishly, and then added more softly: "Sails, loveliest things ever
made." And so I sing of man-made things, That fascinate, inspire me. Yes, fabrics
that can live and breathe — These tops 'ls, rising from the sea! —Joseph Chase ...
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Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain
... blimpishly trying to suggest some semiotics of primordial hierarchy?" There
was a time, he recalls, when only a baroness could have a bedside carpet or two;
'now every. 34 Cl'. Margaret Cavendish, Life, pt. 4, p. vii. 35 Ibid., p. xxv. 3" Henry
...
Nicholas Phillipson, Quentin Skinner, 1993
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In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain
Such a career suggests he was devoted to war and the military, and to empire
and authority, and that his patriotism was of a blimpishly unquestioning brand.
But while this was true of many members of the upper and upper middle classes
of ...
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The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney
(The treatment of Scottish and Welsh poetry is by contrast more or less in keeping
with domestic understandings: even if Allott blimpishly excludes Hugh
MacDiarmid, he includes Andrew Young, Edwin Muir, Norman Cameron, Norman
...
5
Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the Biogenetic Foundations ...
... a willful enthrallment with the notion that all foundationalism in the interpretive
disciplines is both misguided and corrupt.37 And so "theory" has drifted
blimpishly across the critical landscape, buoyed up by thin hot air (mostly French)
, nosing ...
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Curious Incident at Claridge's: An Antonia Darcy and Major ...
She was not an ordinary woman, Major Payne. Shallwe drinktoher?' 'I amnotat all
sureweshould. Wasn't she devious and deceitful? An adventuress and an
arriviste?' Payne blustered blimpishly.Hehoped hewasn't challenge. overdoing it.
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His Monkey Wife, Or, Married to a Chimp: A Novel
That she will do it is a foregone conclusion; how she triumphs after many trials,
how this female of sweetest reason and staunchest self-control finally conquers
her somewhat slowwitted, blimpishly innocent, but sweet-natured Mr. Fatigay—
that ...
8
Skills Outlooks and Passions
... all (I have found few working citations in later political psychology writings), as
being rather Blimpishly about the psychology of morale. I believe them to be the
best studies of outlook we have, and regret that I cannot reproduce them all here.
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A Visitor's Guide to A History of Britain: Locations from ...
... with attractive garden now serves as a museum to the life and work of Sir Alfred
Munnings, the equestrian painter and one-time President of the Royal Academy.
He was famous for drunkenly and blimpishly abusing modern art in general ...
... are the detailed constituents, such as a master might specify to a young painter
, of a true 'Van Dyck'.5 He begins by praising the old tempera painters and
deploring, a touch blimpishly, the modern tendency to 'stray from the basic rules
of art' ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLIMPISHLY»
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I was also, naturally, hypersensitive to inaccuracy, barking blimpishly at the printed page : “Queen Street, not Queen's Street!” And “The cinema ... «The Guardian, Nov 14»
Poster girl for an age of subtlety lost on a shameless generation
It's arguable if the TV script commissioners of today would allow John Cleese and Connie Booth to create the Major, a blimpishly blatant racist ... «Birmingham Post, Jun 14»
Interviewing Alex Salmond, the man who wants to break up Britain
He had replied, blimpishly, that he wanted to know when the English might be allowed to vote on whether the Scots could stay. The cheers ... «The Economist, Jan 12»
The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World, Tate Britain, London
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was French. In spite of this, Blast blimpishly declared the Vorticists' soft-Cubist style to come not from a Spanish artist ... «The Independent, Jun 11»
Wiltons, St James's, London SW1, restaurant review
“And why,” I blimpishly harrumphed, “is that?” “Because she is Mrs Hambro, sir,” he said, “and she is the owner.” Also gone by 2.30pm were the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 10»
