10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PSEUDISH»
Discover the use of
pseudish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pseudish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Osbert Lancaster in From Pillar to Post — the Pocket- Lamp of Architecture, as
entertaining in illustration as in text, includes Pseudish among his list of housing-
fashions. He described it as 'Pont Street Dutch with a few Stockholm trimmings
and ...
Ivor John Carnegie Brown, 1971
A track that book-ended an album opening with a laudatory roll call of Irish writers
, Beat authors Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs figured in a contemptuous
litany directed at a pseudish branch of stereotypical, middle-class musicians ...
And the opera sometimes gets introduced by an American voice that sounds so
pseudish that my head can't rid itself of the oh-sorespectful and oh-so clever
delivery to allow me to listen to the opera. . . . . I listen to politicians
enthusiastically ...
4
The Anatomy of Prose (Routledge Revivals)
... who, with training, might write the common style admirably, to try to write
something more adorned and thus to fall into one of the many traps of what
Osbert Lancaster, in a coinage I wish I had made myself, calls, in architecture, '
Pseudish'.
... their houses described variously as: 'Wimbledon Transitional', 'Pseudish' or 'By
-Pass Variegated'. To make his example of 'Stockbrokers' Tudor' look silly,
Lancaster parked an ultra modern Jowett Javelin saloon at the front door,
introduced ...
Ceri Sullivan, Barbara White, 2014
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English Language Word Builder
... DIURESIS EROTESIS HELIOSIS LORDOSIS PHERESIS TENIASIS
NARQUOIS BLOKEISH CEORLISH COARSISH DWEEBISH FEEBLISH IDIOTISH
NOVELISH PSEUDISH SANDYISH SOLIDISH STOCKISH TRAMPISH
WATERISH ISHLY.
His lions and minotaurs and four-legged phallic objects with antlers in place of
grey matter? Whenever she: appropriated his pseudish archetypes it was to strip
them of their romantic haze, show them for what they were. Oh! We used to have
...
8
Domestic Modernism, the Interwar Novel, and E.H. Young
They preferred the rather 'conservative modernism' of the mock Tudor detached
or semidetached garden city houses, parodied by Lancaster as 'by-pass
variegated', 'pseudish', 'stockbrokers Tudor' (1959), or the villas springing up in
red rows ...
Chiara Briganti, Kathy Mezei, 2006
9
Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on ...
It too may turn out to be 'pseudish', rather as Bruce Dickins suspected many years
ago. I refer to the fifteenth rune, transliterated 'x', which Dickins defined as 'a fossil
in Old English. In runic alphabets, it is sometimes used for x for which a ...
Raymond Ian Page, David Parsons, 1995
10
London: A Social History
... Nouveau surmounting a facade that is plainly modernistic in inspiration; there
the twisted beams and leaded panes of Stockbrokers' Tudor are happily
contrasted with bright green tiles of obviously Pseudish 321 'A FUNGUS-LIKE
GROWTH': ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PSEUDISH»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pseudish is used in the context of the following news items.
McQueen review by QUENTIN LETTS
Non-fashionistas are more likely to think it pseudish nonsense. McQueen trained on Savile Row ('Saville Row', the St James programme puts it) and we have a ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh, book review: Fiction to make …
This novel, by turns scabrous and slightly silly, will appeal to style magazine journalists, pseudish university students and those who like to absorb themselves ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
Why Eton produces so many top actors like Eddie Redmayne
He was playing ingénue Adela Quested, I was in the role of the pseudish Professor Godbole. The now famed Simon Dormandy had just arrived as director of ... «Evening Standard, Feb 15»
Costa ominously good for much-improved Chelsea
With Oscar, Willian and Hazard, they had plenty of what pseudish weirdos would call 'horizontal'. They needed someone to sometimes take the shortest route to ... «Yahoo Eurosport UK, Aug 14»
How Real Madrid and Barcelona could line up following stunning …
The obsessions with elegance and possession that have characterised pseudish analyses of Spanish football over the past decade have foolishly and ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
Yesterday I bought some white crystals from my dealer…
Sorry if this sounds pseudish, but avoiding certain foodstuffs is often part of a process of self-definition – and of defining the “other”, who eat the wrong things ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 14»
Our culture is more than the result of who rules us
That's a reasonable point, but nor have supporters of independence made a compelling contrary case beyond pseudish stuff about imagining a brighter future. «Herald Scotland, Dec 13»
Fresh Meat, series 3 episode 1, review
... the “Pig Man of Arbroath”; pseudish Kingsley (Joe Thomas) – “I'm thinking of shaving off my soul patch”; the pretentious ladies Vod (Zawe Ashton) and Oregon ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 13»
It's a funny old game for Becks, Wills and Cameron in The Three Lions
Edinburgh's festival fringe is a mixture of amateurish larks, gallant solo efforts, pseudish duds and the occasional artistic gem. Some commercial producers use ... «Daily Mail, Aug 13»
Moral vacuity and rancid opportunism. Sorry Damien, but you're a …
How po-faced and pseudish the gallery's pocket guide reads. About his 'spot paintings' (big panels of regular, different-coloured dots), the guide quotes the artist ... «Daily Mail, Apr 12»
