How To Use Micawber In A Sentence
- Also saw John Lithgow's "Micawber" about the painting squirrel, which I remember from the library as being kind of cute... Daily Round-Up
- Not but that there is something very pitiful (by which I mean deserving of pity) in what may be termed the Micawber style of mind, -- in the stage of hysteric oscillations between joy and misery. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
- Does the Editor consider that any of these actions are without adverse consequences? or Does the Editor considers that Micawber got the right idea? Labour and the deficit: Stumbling towards a strategy | Editorial
- The formula for happiness or misery stated by Charles Dickens through the mouth of the inimitable Micawber is as true of a railway as it is of an individual. Railway Highlights
- Always an optimist, Dick easily outdid the immortal Micawber in his faith in something turning up just when things looked their blackest, and he had literally no thought for the morrow, until his hand, mechanically groping in his pocket for the wherewithal to fill his pipe, advised him of the fact that even his "baccy" was finished. A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari Seven Tales of South-West Africa
- A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description.
- When one thinks of Micawber always presenting himself in the same situation, moved with the same springs and uttering the same sounds, always confident of something turning up, always crushed and rebounding, always making punch -- and his wife always declaring she will never part from him, always referring to his talents and her family -- when one thinks of the 'catchwords' personified as characters, one is reminded of the frogs whose brains have been taken out for physiological purposes, and whose actions henceforth want the distinctive peculiarity of organic action, that of fluctuating spontaneity. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete
- Maybe, as Charles Dickens's Mr. Micawber would have said, something will turn up before we have to find out. Allies Struggling to Show a United Front on Libya
- The very words he put into the mouth of that delightful prince of optimism, Micawber, is enough to tell you how he understands that wonderful vacillating brain. The Art That Conceals Art
- Hitched to a succession of men who abused or neglected her before throwing her out on her ear, the naive young Anna invariably responded with a Micawberish faith in a better tomorrow. NPR Topics: News
