How To Use Donnish In A Sentence
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His donnish concerns and highly specific milieu make him less ‘contemporary and accessible’ than his Anglophilic, Masterpiece Theaterish, young fogey fans might think.
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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.
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The community was quietist, contemplative in spirit, and rather donnish, with Augustine as acknowledged leader providing answers to questions raised in the discussions.
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Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
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The donnishness at least is not illusory: he lectures in forensic medicine at the University of Turin.
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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.
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Edinburgh for that, -- a vast amount of toryism and donnishness everywhere.
Stories of Authors, British and American
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They would have made a donnish joke of it perhaps, but their critical teeth would have been bared.
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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
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Whatever middle-class donnishness I inherited quickly withered as I became involved in left-wing student and anti-racist politics.
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He winces at the callous violence of the crimes he solves, less a policeman than a donnish, even priestly justicer.
The Times Literary Supplement
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My own view of that donnish existence left me with admiration for a kind, generous, man.
Times, Sunday Times
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They should really check out the donnish chap, who's in tailored jeans and a linen jacket.
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A good many people in my own class are impatient of them, and think of them as harmless recreations; I fall back upon a few like-minded friends, with whom I can talk easily and unreservedly of such things, without being thought priggish or donnish or dilettanteish or unintelligible.
At Large
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He instinctively shut up before literary display, and pomp and donnishness of manner, faults which always will beset academical notabilities.
Apologia Pro Vita Sua
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By a donnish performance, more in the style of a school of philosophy than of an economics department, he proved the case for tax cuts, then forged an intellectual alibi for funking its implementation.
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He sat in a vast arm-chair, crossed his knees, joined his hands, and with what Troy called his donnish manner, prepared to tackle Cedric.
Final Curtain
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It is written with elegance and sometimes donnish wit, but it is very far from being a book for specialists.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a devout Catholic with mild, donnish quirks. He writes haiku poems and reads Shakespeare for pleasure.
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He was a thin, donnish-looking man in a tweed jacket and sandals.
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And to do this, one has to speak to its winemaker: the thoughtful, donnish 71-year-old Aubert de Villaine, who, along with his co-director Henry-Fr é d é ric Roch, has, for more than a quarter of a century, has been at the forefront of not only restoring the reputation of the wines of Domaine de la Roman é e-Conti but also of the wines of Burgundy itself.
Searching for Perfection
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[222] He was never a professor, but was an inspector; and, though I may be biassed, I think the inspector is usually the more "donnish" animal of the two.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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The community was quietist, contemplative in spirit, and rather donnish, with Augustine as acknowledged leader providing answers to questions raised in the discussions.
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Among them are the Magistrate, whose clipped tones most certainly do "not invite debate," and the Padre, whose voice is perfectly balanced between donnishness and clerical sing-song.
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I was slightly bemused by his Oxford donnishness, a role assiduously cultivated.
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Kant's private life is often parodied as one of clockwork routine, fastidious, donnish, and self-centred.
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True individualism among academics, to say nothing of donnish eccentricity, is but a memory.
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donnishness" seem to have acquired their uncomplimentary meaning about this period.
St. John's College, Cambridge
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If he has forced ministers to mull over some harsh truths, we should forgive him the odd donnish flourish.
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He was a thin, donnish-looking man in a tweed jacket and sandals.
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I have before me a letter to one of the evening papers, written in a tone of academic sarcasm which proves that even the supercilious and "donnish" element is not lacking in Chicago culture.
America To-day, Observations and Reflections
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Some might find that a bit too donnish, but his glossaries of rare or lost words are a delight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gilbert Ryle, with donnish absurdity, called God “a category mistake”.
Atheism
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His self-described life of writing, reading and lecturing resembles that of a donnish Edwardian vicar; a less modern, less stressful existence can scarcely be imagined.
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The exclusive force is represented by caste and class, by gentility and donnishness, by sectarianism and nationalism, and even by patriotism ” and the inclusive force is represented by Walt Whitmanism and Christianity.”
Father Payne
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It is written with elegance and sometimes donnish wit, but it is very far from being a book for specialists.
Times, Sunday Times
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Face to face, he seems donnish, gentle, almost languid, but perhaps he is just tired.
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He was conspicuous among the young men of his standing for the forwardness with which he took his side against "Tractarianism," and the vehemence of his dislike of it, and for the almost ostentatious and defiant prominence which he gave to the convictions and social habits of his school He expressed his scorn and disgust at the "donnishness," the coldness, the routine, the want of heart, which was all that he could see at Oxford out of the one small circle of his friends.
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
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Unawareness of this is common among our donnish types, however — even ones so appealing asSomin.
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It was only to those who had but few personal dealings with him that he seemed stiff and "donnish"; to his more intimate acquaintances, who really understood him, each little eccentricity of manner or of habits was a delightful addition to his charming and interesting personality.
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
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My own view of that donnish existence left me with admiration for a kind, generous, man.
Times, Sunday Times
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The observations above suggest that, whilst he may have been correct in writing about a decline in donnish dominion in the universities, he was over-hasty in proclaiming an end to that dominion.
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He has an infectious, donnish enthusiasm and joie de vivre that television producers obviously believe lends popular appeal to subjects that some viewers might otherwise consider dry as dust.
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Ian Richards and Charles Ogden were not indulging in some donnish jeu d'esprit when they wrote their book The Meaning of Meaning, published in 1923 and never out of print since.
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It is now an unfashionable idea that seems donnish and patronising.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has a somewhat donnish air about him.
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His style is a blend of Gaelic eloquence, Harvard donnishness and American stump evangelism.
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He has been called donnish and an original thinker.
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He, after a lifetime in office, might be forgiven for expecting to have his advice taken seriously by a donnish, ineffectual Scottish peer who was chiefly known for the shapeliness of his legs and his patronage of botanists.
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Overflowing with affection to his friends, and showing it in all kinds of unconventional and unexpected instances, keeping to the last a kind of youthful freshness as if he had never yet realised that he was not a boy, and shrunk from the formality and donnishness of grown-up life, he was the most refined and thoughtful of gentlemen, and in the midst of the fierce party battles of his day, with all his strong feeling of the tremendous significance of the strife, always a courteous and considerate opponent.
Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890
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I see myself at high table, passing the port as donnish jokes were tossed about.
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In many ways it seems to hark back to a bygone age, with its wine, cigars and unashamed donnishness.
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He writes, however, as Darwin did not, with dry humor (although he also occasionally descends to donnish waggery).
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It is now an unfashionable idea that seems donnish and patronising.
Times, Sunday Times
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In donnish inquisitions he would challenge every utterance to expose lazy thinking.
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It is sufficient to say that Harvey had all the worst traits of "donnishness," without having apparently any notion of that dignity which sometimes half excuses the don.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Indeed, his donnish uniform - blue cords, woolly jumper - would point to a different set of opinions but, as he says, this war is unusual.
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Perhaps, though, under the donnish joking they won't notice a great deal of subtlety.
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That said, the emphasis on being trendy attracts a clientele which is far less donnish than the norm for an up-market Oxford restaurant.