10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCHOOLMASTERISH»
Discover the use of
schoolmasterish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
schoolmasterish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
"schoolmasterish." I don't really think that I ever had a good teacher who wasn't
schoolmasterish, often in the extreme. The writing of a student in the university
should be frequent, thoroughly analyzed by a schoolmasterish taskmaster, and
fully ...
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Sean O'Faolain's Irish Vision
It stood about halfway between the Dublin Cattle Market and the entrance to the
Phoenix Park—to be precise a bare 1800 feet, or 80 perches, from the park Gate,
as Phil had once carefully established in his schoolmasterish way by means of a
...
3
The Development of Mathematics
Lord Kelvin (died, 1907), among other scientists, staged several modernized
grammarians' funerals for the schoolmasterish pedantsafflictedwith 'calculi.''
Schoolmasterish' also is English. 6 Often denotednowbyanenormous capital 'S.' 7
For ...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... sermonette; exhortation, harangue, lecture, tirade sermonic adj syn DIDACTIC,
moral, moralizing, preachy, schoolmasterish, sermonizing, teachy sermonize vb 1
syn PREACH 1, evangelize, homilize 2 syn DISCOURSE 1, descant, dilate (on ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
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Intimate Violence: Reading Rape and Torture in ...
(234) O'Brien's "schoolmasterish" discourse is clearly directed not only at Winston
but at the reader who, however invisible, is also located in the scene of violence.
As the torturer looks past Winston "into the distance," the "audience" that he ...
6
The Fisher King: A Novel
The action, if a trifle schoolmasterish, was not unfriendly. 'Enough, Jack, enough.
Even Scheherazade, when as Burton picturesquely puts it, she saw the dawn of
day, ceased her permitted say. As the hour is getting comparatively late, you too ...
This was bad for him, for it cast him into a kind of irritable despair, and bad for
Pamela, since it made her more critical. When he was schoolmasterish, the pupil
put him to shame; when his mood was humble, hers was arrogant. So during the
...
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Knowledge and the World: Challenges Beyond the Science Wars
I do this at the risk of appearing schoolmasterish or without a sense of humor. (
However, I imagine physicists — Sokal and Bricmont themselves, say — reading
a paper written by a layperson about quantum mechanics or chaos theory.
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Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning
Photographs of him in this era show a somber, schoolmasterish man wearing an
intense expression behind wire eyeglasses. He had a receding hairline and a
prominent moustache. Much of the old spontaneity and wit seem to have wilted.
Thomas Neville Bonner, 2002
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Memoir of Hungary: 1944-1948
... and abstracted pseudogravity, and a shyness appeared in his demeanor, in his
schoolmasterish, affectedly grave mien. He was a geographer, politician,
enthusiastic scoutmaster, prime minister and scion of an ancient Transylvanian
family.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCHOOLMASTERISH»
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schoolmasterish is used in the context of the following news items.
Michael Dirda on Moral Agents
Here, the current holder of the Lionel Trilling chair of the Humanities at Columbia may be too schoolmasterish: excitement is paramount in reviewing; ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
Golf as the meaning of life, the world and everything
Usually it comes off badly, making him seen belligerent, schoolmasterish and OTT, as in his recent interviewing of the D4 "socialist" TD Paul Murphy, when he ... «Irish Independent, Mar 15»
'I held his hand as he drank the fatal dose': the day my husband …
Schoolmasterish Mr Thommen and pretty Ms Krause arrived, radiating calm. The first thing they said, and repeated, was that Gerard was free to change his mind ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
Northampton vow to defend Dylan Hartley from goading
He is impressive, a natural leader rather than someone who has read about it in books, and he has created a culture here without being schoolmasterish. «The Guardian, Jan 15»
Portrayal of former leader has serious errors of actuality
As he went from one sumptuous salon to another 'Charlie' was always shadowed by a gaunt, heavily-bespectacled, deadly-serious, schoolmasterish type called ... «Irish Independent, Jan 15»
Hanif Kureishi: Knock, knock, it's Enoch
Powell developed his own schoolmasterish look. Always in black, sometimes in a long overcoat and occasionally in a little homburg, he was punky and ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
France quarrels with EU over economic policy
"We can justifiably be exasperated by the schoolmasterish tone of of the Brussels technocrats or the remonstrances of [German chancellor] Angela Merkel. «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 14»
Away Days: Australia A at Tony Ireland Stadium
Perhaps the schoolmasterish governments that characterise this state have mandated provision of a low-grog standard. Perhaps Queenslanders know that ... «The Guardian, Aug 14»
Book Review: 'Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!' by Bob Stanley
... and, indeed, the rest of the book alternates between an Aquarian roll-your-own outlook and a schoolmasterish insistence on important dates and names. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 14»
Afghanistan's Army As You've Never Seen It (Gardens, Glory And All)
... The Huffington Post in a phone interview. The gardens belong to generals, who -- schoolmasterish in this telling -- tend to them on base. 2014-03-05-ana4.jpg ... «Huffington Post, Mar 14»
