How To Use Falstaff In A Sentence
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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese and the Falstaff and the Goat In Boots.
A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS
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Falstaff's discourse on honor in I Henry IV is a paradoxical redefinition of an aris - tocratic value long unquestioned but, after the decline of active feudalism, a topic for the anti-idealist para - doxists of the Renaissance.
LITERARY PARADOX
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In general, the gaggle of women scheming against Falstaff worked well with each other, complementing each other both vocally and dramatically.
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The hero of the affair was an Irishman, named Baker, who relieved the monotony of his work as a master pavior by acting Sir John Falstaff and other parts.
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
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In the second part of Henry IV Barrit's Falstaff, his face pocked with sores and his body decaying, became a more grotesque, more disturbing but also more exuberant figure.
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Before the truth finally comes out, the titular wives manage to bury Falstaff in filthy laundry and costume local children as fairies to "pinch him sound and burn him with their tapers.
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That rag-tag, fly-encircled debaucher possessed a decidedly bad humor entirely lacking in this merry Falstaff.
Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage
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It is not Falstaff but Shakespeare who says that “the poor abuses of the time want countenance”; and later in the play, when the character of Falstaff is fully developed, it is Shakespeare, the thinker, who calls Falstaff's ragged regiment “the cankers of a calm world and a long peace.”
The Man Shakespeare
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Toby is an impecunious relative of Olivia's and a kind of Falstaffian moocher whose continued presence in the house is a drain on Olivia's patience and her pocketbook.
Shakespeare
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The modern sherry is a descendent of Falstaff's sack, though shortly after his day it began to be made by the more complicated modern process which includes adding brandy.
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Whereas Falstaff is of a dissipated and questionable character, Zagloba has a heart of gold; he is faithful to his friends in times of danger.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1905 - Presentation Speech
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Verdi's dramas were often violent and bloody, from ‘Otello’ - the consummation of tragic opera - to his only comic opera ‘Falstaff’ which is perfection of the genre.
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Add to this my contracting a thoroughly unamusing case of severe hypoglycemia (not enough sugar in the old blood), and a neo-Falstaffian intake of alcohol and cocaine, and what do you have?
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This may merely reflect a heightened sense, that regarding prosecution under UCMJ Article 125, as Falstaff observed, “The better part of valour is discretion”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Four Days That Shook DADT”
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It finds a fine balance between concentration on characters and integration of spatial detail to chart the painful severance of the friendship between the Prince and Falstaff.
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He reviewed a gallery of the great fatties of all time, from Nero through Falstaff to Arbuckle.
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Many of the games and ceremonials of Christmas have entirely disappeared, and, like the sherris sack of old Falstaff, are become matters of speculation and dispute among commentators.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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A stage animal by nature, he has also mastered the role's physical challenges, moving with that self-conscious grace large people often cultivate, while adding many fine comic touches to round out Falstaff's mercurial character.
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Thus he contemplates both Shakespeare's stinginess and his peculiar kind of generosity, an imaginative one that transformed a dying wastrel into the immortal Falstaff.
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Arrived at the close of the second day in Canterbury, the two "toke" their inn at the sign of the "Falstaff," where hung "Honest Jack, in buff doublet and red hose," in a wonderful piece of wrought-iron work.
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
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And so, with great delight, the two close friends set out to prove they have lost none of their pluck or zest for life and through various assignations and mistaken identities turn the tables beautifully on Falstaff.
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She spoke to him of his luckless courtship of Widow Denison (a most unpleasant topic), thus giving a clue to the whole situation, in showing that Madam Winthrop resented his desertion of her in his first widowerhood, and like Falstaff, would not "undergo a sneap without reply.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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But repeated references to drunkenness in the plays, plus the portraits of two sots, Sir Toby Belch and Falstaff, lead Greenblatt to suspect alcoholism.
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Bridgewater is a splendidly Falstaffian character, tubby "more apple than pear-shaped", big-hearted and sybaritic.
Fathers and Sons
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They bicker constantly, Clemen's Falstaffian appetites and uncontrollable bodily urges clashing with the priggishness and military discipline of Jimmy, a former air-force officer, and their ill-tempered dialogues are often hilarious.
Adios, Warlock
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The Enquirer had spent weeks shadowing Edwards' Falstaffian aide Andrew Young and Rielle Hunter in a North Carolina gated community before finally publishing the story that she was pregnant with the candidate's baby.
David Perel: Technology & Psychology: The Never-Before-Revealed Details of Why John Edwards Finally Confessed to His Affair
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L.A. Opera scores with striking 'Der Rosenkavalier,' lusty 'Falstaff'
Undefined
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Falstaff calls it _sherris sack_, and also _sherris_ only, using in fact both names indiscriminately
Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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He allows us to entertain the notion along with Falstaff that the elevation of his tender lambkin, his sweet boy, to the throne will mean good times for all his old boon companions.
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Republicans and the shouting class of Falstaffian blowhards -- minus Sir John's winning charm -- perseverated on Bill Ayers and socialism, "domestic terrorists" and dark meetings, and they crapped out.
Kerry Candaele: Barack Obama And Sam Cooke on Election Night
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Swearing is now pretty rare (I swear to God!), though it used to be more common (in Falstaffian oaths such as ’Sblood! — “by God’s blood” — or Zounds! — “by God’s wounds”).
Letters to the Editor
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- “If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a souced gurnet,” says Falstaff; which shows that this fish has been long known in England.
The Book of Household Management
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Nor is it good to offer women to butter-bellied Falstaff, too ugly and degenerate to be desirable.
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From here on, Malik is protected and schooled by Luciani, perhaps too efficiently; in a heartbreaking late scene, the pupil spurns his mentor, like a vicious Prince Hal disdaining Falstaff.
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It was quite well done all-round--no weak links in the cast or direction--but what makes it worth $65 is Kline's performance as Falstaff, which is revelatory in the sense that it allows Shakespeare's words to shine through clearly without additional "playacting" on his part.
Fun at Lincoln Center.
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Just after lunch, while I was sitting beside Richard and routinely checking all his biometry, Katie asked me if she could play with Prince Hal and Falstaff.
The Garden of Rama
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Verdi's "Falstaff" -- would be revived was brilliantly redeemed.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
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Falstaff going to bed without his cup of sack, or Macbeth fed on bones as marrowless as those of Banquo.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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It was quite well done all-round--no weak links in the cast or direction--but what makes it worth $65 is Kline's performance as Falstaff, which is revelatory in the sense that it allows Shakespeare's words to shine through clearly without additional "playacting" on his part.
Fun at Lincoln Center.
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Falstaffe is Humourously called Woolsack, Bed-presser, and
Spectator, March 20, 1711
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Before the truth finally comes out, the titular wives manage to bury Falstaff in filthy laundry and costume local children as fairies to "pinch him sound and burn him with their tapers.
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To be "Falstaffian" is to delight in excess: a Falstaffian night out is more likely a stag party or a booze-up after a big football victory than an elegant soirée.
Evening Standard - Home
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Then there is the lovable Tritter, with his mop of grey hair and his voice like an unoiled hinge, whose Falstaff is at once paunchy and stiff-limbed, and as shiny and buoyant as a bubble.
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After war service he co-directed with Olivier four fabled repertory seasons by the Old Vic Company in the West End: his great Shakespearian creation was Falstaff in both parts of Henry IV.
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Listen to his many-sided Falstaff portrayal in the Verdi, too.
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Falstaff made love to her with his hand upon "a parcel-gilt goblet," and followed up the declaration with a kiss and a request for thirty shillings.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
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Shakespeare's Falstaff admitted that he sold his soul for Madeira wine, and so fond of it was the Duke of Clarence that, faced with execution, he chose to be drowned instead in a vat of Malmsey - the sweetest of all Mardeiras.
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Members assimilated in hearty courtesy of a Falstaffian Bard's birthday take a break of final Apr hosted by Messrs. Friedman, Madeira, as good as Pope.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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It may have been Shakespeare fatigue, but the scene between Falstaff and Doll Tearsheet, played as a strung-out Eastender with Blade Runner hair, was for significant periods pure garble, to be endured rather than enjoyed.
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He then sent Falstaff to decoy the site watchman biot.
The Garden of Rama
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Perhaps Shakespeare had particular reason when, in 1598, he had the bibulous Sir John Falstaff complain so bitterly on the subject of ‘thin potations’.
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It just goes to show that for all the Falstaffian wassail, there's nothing quite like a gory shank from nave to chaps to get the punters in.
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Falstaff was big and fantastically blustery, and in that context, we somehow managed to avoid discussing the politics of the day, enjoying a jolly frivolous evening in all.
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Our Hundred Days in Europe
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Falstaff, the archetypal braggart, poltroon, toper and talker, wit and source of wit in others, is usually a figure larger than life.
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A cup of tea at the right moment does for the virtuous reveller all that Falstaff claims for a good sherris-sack, or at least the first half of its "twofold operation:" "It ascends me into the brain; dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapors which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery and delectable shapes, which delivered over to the voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Lights, noises, and singing at night, clearly discerned from the castle, caused much terror to Lady Edgeworth, though her descendants affirm that they were fairies of the same genus as those who beset Sir John Falstaff at Hearne's oak, and intended to frighten her into leaving the place.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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Alvin Crawford and John Criter are hilarious as Falstaff's sidekicks, but Franco Pomponi's voice needs greater heft to make Ford's frequent rages comic.
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Before the truth finally comes out, the titular wives manage to bury Falstaff in filthy laundry and costume local children as fairies to "pinch him sound and burn him with their tapers.
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Falstaff is certainly a newcomer to the area, and dines at the homes of the Pages and the Fords.
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His eyes sparkling with humour, intelligence, and mischief, he was a man of Falstaffian charm and love of life who adored Henry and Alex.
Henry’s Demons
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His is the robust, Falstaffian humour of old England, which, I am glad to think, still exists in London and still pleases Londoners, in spite of efforts to Gallicize our entertainments and substitute obscenity and the salacious leer for honest fun and the frank roar of laughter.
Nights in London
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It finds a fine balance between concentration on characters and integration of spatial detail to chart the painful severance of the friendship between the Prince and Falstaff.
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His most famous souse, Sir John Falstaff, is a bloated, devious, clown.
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To be sure, Falstaff is a rake, a ne'er-do-well, and a lousy soldier, not to mention horrifically overweight.
Shakespeare in Love, or in Context
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John Herbison: This may merely reflect a heightened sense, that regarding prosecution under UCMJ Article 125, as Falstaff observed, “The better part of valour is discretion”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Four Days That Shook DADT”
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While many of these seemingly impervious works belong to Mozart, Verdi’s Falstaff is another.
Archive 2008-08-01
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In his first season has conducted Falstaff and a compelling new production of Salome directed by Robert Carsen.
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In Shakespeare's "Henry IV," the rotund, free-living Falstaff character was known as Plump Jack, famous for his speech defending jovial indulgences--"banish plump Jack and banish all the world.
To Ski Or Not To Ski
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For starters, it isn't often that we hear Falstaff, usually assigned to veteran baritones, sung by a major youthful voice in its prime.
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His body was a wine-pipe, or a rum-puncheon, or something of that character, and had a truly Falstaffian air.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Members assimilated in hearty courtesy of a Falstaffian Bard's birthday take a break of final Apr hosted by Messrs. Friedman, Madeira, as good as Pope.
Archive 2009-11-01
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But I agree with you that Falstaff is almost completely bulletproof.
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
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While King Henry IV attempts to unite the warring factions making up his kingdom, his son Prince Hal prefers the rumbustious company of Sir John Falstaff.
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He thinks, indeed -- and small wonder -- that there is "a genuine difficulty in distinguishing between the comic and the tragic," and that what we need is some formula which shall accurately interpret the precise qualities of each, and he is disposed to illustrate his theory by dwelling on the tragic side of Falstaff, which is, of all injuries, the grimmest and hardest to forgive.
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
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Falstaff (Christopher Benjamin), that grasping old lecher, is beaten, ridiculed and generally humiliated as usual.
London Theater Journal: A Double-Header at the Globe - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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He remained distant from his compeers on stage, thus condemning Barrit's Falstaff to an early acceptance of impending rejection and robbing their final confrontation of emotional power.
