donnish

How To Use donnish In A Sentence

• His donnish concerns and highly specific milieu make him less ‘contemporary and accessible’ than his Anglophilic, Masterpiece Theaterish, young fogey fans might think.
• At the time, this was treated as a donnish joke by many critics who conceived Wodehousian humour, in spite of its popularity, to be elitist, since it dealt with the goings-on of a wealthy and privileged few.
• The community was quietist, contemplative in spirit, and rather donnish, with Augustine as acknowledged leader providing answers to questions raised in the discussions.
• Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
• The donnishness at least is not illusory: he lectures in forensic medicine at the University of Turin.
• By a donnish performance, more in the style of a school of philosophy than of an economics department, Letwin proved the case for tax cuts, then forged an intellectual alibi for funking its implementation.
• Edinburgh for that, -- a vast amount of toryism and donnishness everywhere. Stories of Authors, British and American
• They would have made a donnish joke of it perhaps, but their critical teeth would have been bared.
• Regarded by some as Britain's foremost critics, Kermode was instrumental in the creation of the London Review of Books, and his accessibility made him a kind of bridge between the donnish world of academic literature and novels as they were read by everyday people. Frank Kermode Dead: Respected English Literary Critic And Shakespeare Scholar Dies At 90
• Whatever middle-class donnishness I inherited quickly withered as I became involved in left-wing student and anti-racist politics.