10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DONNISHLY»
Discover the use of
donnishly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
donnishly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
he laughed, adding rather donnishly that he hadn't seen anything about General
Tso's or General Tseng's chicken in his history books. However, he said, "There's
a well-known painter named Ta-Chien, and I vaguely recall once eating ...
2
Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing
The more "creative writing" runs amuck in fiction, the more we find ourselves
indecisive before it: now stupidly admiring, now donnishly supercilious. The
literary essay can avoid that split; it knows itself as both creative and receptive, a
part of ...
George Douglas Atkins, 1992
3
You Don't Say: Modern American Inhibitions
His person is unvaryingly stately; his language is donnishly remote from that of
the society he addresses; and his capacity for grave and measured development
of familiar metaphor produced, in. * The notion of the politician as a follower ...
4
Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan
Mme Jolan came after me in a buggy (Tuhami imitated a horse donnishly), and
she caught me at the station. "So you want to go to Algeria," she said. "You must
never change the old for the new." She brought me back with her and insulted
her ...
She saw a red-haired man who looked faintly familiar and watched him bend
under a hood and then stand back to appraise a customized Buick with a black
lacquer chassis. He stood donnishly posed with jutted elbow and cupped hand
and ...
6
Analysing Professional Genres
I could never pull off this donnishly casual approach. Even though I've never
simply read out my lectures, in the US or the UK, I found that I had to start writing
them out, including the jokes, so that I planned them carefully enough. So, though
...
7
Phenomenology and Philosophical Understanding
i7Pp. 555-6: p. 641. Anyone so donnishly austere as to prefer to take his
philosophy unspiced by references to nothingness, facticity or even
abandonment, can be referred to a decisive paragraph in Locke's great chapter '
Of the Idea of Power'.
"Ah, hm-mm," I donnishly hummed, noting a smear of grease on her
Rubensesque dorsal. "There is something?" she cried in alarm. "Pleess!" I said
reassuringly. "It is nothing at all." And extracting a kleenex, and pointedly wetting
it with my ...
Somewhat donnishly Spence explained the foibles of opinion polling, the margin
of error you should always remember, the rogue polls which in spite of all the
pollsters' efforts still sneaked through and simply got it wrong. 'Like the one I've
just ...
Nevertheless, the main tenor of the idiom is donnishly abstract rather than
cynically self-manipulative. It is much closer to the philosopher's 'Let's try the
argument this way . . . ' than to 'This shall be my motive.' If it is asked, 'Why, then,
granting ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DONNISHLY»
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donnishly is used in the context of the following news items.
Literary critic James Wood: 'I'm taking a religious view of an earthly …
... Japanese tourists festooned with electronic gadgets, and then the incongruous figure of Wood – slightly hunched, donnishly inward-looking ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Oliver Rackham changed the way we look at forestry
Yet while the tag fitted his donnishly eccentric appearance, it also denoted his standing in a field of study that he revolutionised. His career was ... «The Times, Mar 15»
Sketch: Boris Johnson, Cage-fighter
He didn't grope donnishly for an amusingly abstruse polysyllable. Instead, he spoke cleanly and bluntly. Out the words flew, without possibility ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
Good Times, Bad Times by John Hills review – a bracing defence of …
There are passages, too, where donnishly pointed language could have made way for something blunter. The coalition's decision to cut ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
Britain should have a gardening archive
While Brookes frets donnishly that the new film lacks intellectual rigour, Woodward is more interested in capturing the personality and insights ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 12»
Written on the Heart, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
He's later propelled forward to 1610 as the ghostly projection of the troubled conscience of Oliver Ford Davies's donnishly dry and anguished ... «The Independent, Nov 11»
The Rev John Royds
... the ability to swish a gown in an especially menacing way, for example, and a telegraphic, donnishly tart and lapidary way with words. «Telegraph.co.uk, May 11»
A Life in Pictures by Alasdair Gray: review
Instead, the copious text contains, as Gray donnishly puts it, “certain personal details given to explain how and why, at different times, I came to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 10»
Russell groupies to target newbie unis
One might donnishly hypothesise that those links could equally become channels for sucking assets out of struggling tertiary educational ... «Financial Times, Sep 10»
Johnny Kingdom: At home in a wildlife haven
He is the polar opposite of the donnishly restrained Sir David Attenborough and cites Johnny Morris as his biggest inspiration. "I was so ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 10»
