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being the project's editor-in-chief. Harris also faults the editors' "donnish conservatism" and their adherence to prudish Victorian morals, citing as...97 KB (9,893 words) - 22:55, 2 June 2024
Black. Lindsay, Jean (1955). Say "Thank You": A guide for freshers, by a donnish bluestocking. Cambridge, England: (no publisher). McWilliams Tullberg,...65 KB (7,109 words) - 01:59, 9 June 2024
more comfortable in a wet tuxedo than a dry martini, more at ease as a donnish genealogist than reading (or playing) Playboy magazine, and who actually...79 KB (8,558 words) - 02:45, 17 May 2024- more comfortable in a wet tuxedo than a dry martini, more at ease as a donnish genealogist than reading (or playing) Playboy, and who actually dares to...64 KB (7,788 words) - 14:13, 2 May 2024
original on 8 May 2017. Irvine, Ian (14 October 2011). "Jonathan Sumption: Donnish but deadly". The Independent. Sumption, Jonathan (29 May 2020). "The Jonathan...49 KB (5,014 words) - 14:56, 21 May 2024- The New York Times. Our Guide to the Best Critics: Film – Candour and Donnish Intellect Archived 6 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine, 10 March 2008...17 KB (1,842 words) - 12:48, 5 May 2024
- Mauro Bosco (Italian) Hound's archenemy. Unlike the rarely appearing mafia donnish Moriarty in the books, this Moriarty is portrayed as working personally...31 KB (1,546 words) - 05:24, 1 April 2024
- that "It's the best collection since M. R. James in this narrow genre of donnish, tongue-in-cheek ghost stories." Review by Douglas E. Winter (1984) in...4 KB (320 words) - 13:31, 5 June 2024
brick; tells funny stories connected with different problems and is no way Donnish; he rattles us on at a splendid pace and makes mathematics anything but...10 KB (1,132 words) - 09:34, 2 December 2023- The Children of Húrin's prose style "is far from that breezy, homely donnishness that characterises The Hobbit and the first book of The Lord of the Rings"...39 KB (5,152 words) - 14:46, 23 May 2024
1965. His limp handshake, lack of military experience and his stooping donnish manner (in an era when many politicians were former officers) were political...21 KB (2,375 words) - 18:02, 22 April 2024- inspirational nature of the book. He described this book as exhibiting "a donnish ease while blending amusement with edification". While writing an overall...9 KB (1,063 words) - 21:09, 18 April 2023
- ". BBC. Retrieved 6 May 2017. Our Radio Critic (12 November 1952). "A Donnish Quiz". The Manchester Guardian. "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?". BBC. Retrieved...29 KB (1,896 words) - 00:26, 6 February 2024
- Retrieved 15 October 2011. Irvine, Ian (15 October 2011). "Jonathan Sumption: Donnish but deadly". The Independent. London: Independent Print Ltd. Retrieved...8 KB (776 words) - 00:02, 12 May 2024
- sleuthing, and Stephen Campbell Moore brings just the right degree of donnish clumsiness to Maurice Wilkins, who shared their Nobel Prize in 1962 (four...16 KB (1,475 words) - 00:18, 28 December 2023
- cerebral than intelligent. Unwin’s groping, though voiced in a semblance of donnish wit and paradox, is not genuinely interesting. When he breaks through to...4 KB (429 words) - 03:48, 16 May 2024
- and even aside from that frankly I doubt if there's anybody more prima donnish than intelligence people – and in this capacity, the Attorney General is...16 KB (1,956 words) - 15:26, 14 January 2024
- seminal work that underscored how Tolkien’s fiction, far from being a bit of donnish fancy, was in many ways rooted in his experiences at the Battle of the...30 KB (3,636 words) - 20:19, 13 November 2023
- problems"; he concludes that the portrayal of Socrates and Aspasia in it is a "donnish just-so story ... best left to the Victorians." Sasone is even more cutting:...28 KB (3,000 words) - 19:26, 7 June 2024
- 'humanism's long dream of learning.' It is ironic that Hunter, by far the more donnish of the two critics, should be the one to remind us that the barbarians...9 KB (1,137 words) - 15:40, 15 April 2021
- donnish + -ness donnishness (uncountable) The quality of being donnish. 1914, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman[1]: In the morning
- public by cold and ungenial manners, and by more than a touch of Oxford donnishness. Among congenial friends he was a delightful companion, and he was idolised
- they are now. They were not so familiar with the boys, but were more ‘donnish,’ and never laid aside their ordinary hats and coats, even when they went
- manner, as the House of Commons had noted an an earlier date, was apt to be donnish.” Lord Beaverbrook wrote that McKenna “likes to assert his view, and if