10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOGEYISH»
Discover the use of
fogeyish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
fogeyish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Unseen #3: The Long Way Home
But not fogeyish.” “Hardly fogeyish at all,” Xander agreed gratefully. Anya started
walking again, and Xander took a couple of quick steps to keep up with her. “I
guess I don't need to be the Scooby Queen,” she said. “I'm just trying to figure out
...
Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte, 2001
But not fogeyish." "Hardly fogeyish at all," Xander agreed gratefully. Anya started
walking again, and Xander took a couple of quick steps to keep up with her. "I
guess I don't need to be the Scooby Queen," she said. "I'm just trying to figure out
...
Nancy Holder, Jeff Mariotte, 2001
3
Chambers English Thesaurus
... antediluvian, antique, archaic, dated, elderly, fogeyish, fossilised, obsolete, old,
old hat, old-fashioned, old-fogeyish, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, outwom,
passé, quaint, supеrannuated, unfashionable. antonyms forwardlooking, modem.
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Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
Here are Roth’s family, his inspirations, his critics, the full range of his fiction, and his friendships with such figures as Saul Bellow and John Updike. Here is Roth at work and at play.
Claudia Roth Pierpont, 2013
5
Blue Blood Chronicles the Ancient Reign: Blue Blood Chronicles
“Nothing will ever be solid enough for these fogeyish Moors” he almost mouthed
aloud. To himself, he thought whatever it is he does, it most be a winner. Staring
at his trophies he, felt a winner, validating, “I am born a winner. Hence, my ideas
...
6
Henry Dunbar, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.
After all, it is a silly, old-fogeyish habit, this of diary-keeping; and I think the
renowned Pepys himself was only a bachelor spoiled. Just now, however, I have
something more than cab-drives, lost omnibuses, and the perusal of a favourite
book ...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1864
The music-hall with its plate-glass, its paintings, its private boxes, its concerted
music and its champagne, has banished it ; and the audacious novelty of my
young days is a forgotten, fogeyish old institution now. But this particular place of
...
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1869
8
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
It is the passengers who make me feel – not old, not fogeyish, but out of place. I
had been grateful for the ride, grateful to Ben and Mick for their ingenuity and
patience; Iwas also grateful to leave, even if leaving meant wandering down the
main ...
9
The Head of the House of Coombe
The relatives had astonishingly settled down, with the unmoved passage of time,
and more modern emancipation had so far left latchkeys and bachelor
apartments behind it that they began to seem almost old- fogeyish. Clara March,
however ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 2010
10
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
To take against it would automatically condemn one to seem churlish and
fogeyish. It should be asked: do these photographs reflect on the tensions
inherent in the youth cult or merely exemplify them? Do the juxtapositions
between pictures ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FOGEYISH»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
fogeyish is used in the context of the following news items.
How strange to feel nostalgic for the 1970s
I suppose we were on the fogeyish side, almost untouched by the popular culture of the time. And insofar as I was aware of popular fashion, ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
Call James Anderson England's best bowler — don't call him a heart …
The atmosphere — somewhere between quaint and fogeyish — is undercut when James Anderson arrives wearing a sharp suit and holding a ... «The Times, Jul 15»
Britain could so nearly have suffered the same fate as Greece
Eurosceptics were portrayed as fogeyish, nationalistic simpletons who didn't understand the direction of history. The Greeks and others listened ... «Yahoo Finance UK, Jun 15»
Drugs are a waste of time, but so is the Psychoactive Substances Bill
Standard fogeyish handwringing, so long as humans remain in our current state great literature will remain great literature, great art great art ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 15»
Have our cultural tastes become too childish?
It's like being beaten over the head with a big lowbrow mallet and it shouldn't be seen as fogeyish or snobby to say so. EC There are lots of ... «The Guardian, May 15»
John Bercow dragged back as Speaker as MPs fight to find …
On their return, Jacob Rees-Mogg, a man not quite as fogeyish as he would like to be perceived, proposed the re-election of a Speaker whom ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Christopher Gillett on Gilbert & Sullivan
Are they too fogeyish for the 21st century? Possibly. But it's worth pondering that no other librettist-composer partnership in history has ever ... «Sinfini Music, May 15»
'6 weeks of paternity leave, Prince William? You'll send Kate …
How unlike his father, the fogeyish Prince Charles — who at the time of his engagement to Diana, when asked if he was in love, gave a sighing, ... «Daily Mail, Apr 15»
How Tory Dumfriesshire plans to hold off SNP surge
Bond, an amateur comedian who sends up his fogeyish dress sense and turn-coat status at open mic sessions, is imbued with conservative ... «Scotsman, Apr 15»
Schlump by Hans Herbert Grimm, book review
For a while, Schlump's days of chasing girls, cadging cigarettes and thumbing his nose at fogeyish superiors reads like an unexpectedly ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
