How To Use Micawber In A Sentence
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Also saw John Lithgow's "Micawber" about the painting squirrel, which I remember from the library as being kind of cute...
Daily Round-Up
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Here, after months of Micawberish hoping for something to turn up, Europe's leaders will have to decide and commit, at a meeting likely to change the continent's economic arrangements for ever.
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A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description.
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A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description.
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A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description.
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And the eurocracy prefers buying time in the Micawberish hope that something will turn up to keep Euroland from fracturing, rather than face reality.
Europe's Daily Soap Opera Keeps Rolling
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He was more than just a drunk, the father; he was a kind of Micawber, a lawyer with big ideas and inventions that didn't sell.
Undefined
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But those Labour MPs who take a Micawberish atitude to their prospects seem pretty likely to be disappointed.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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‘P.S. It may be advisable to superadd to the above, the statement that Mrs. Micawber is not in confidential possession of my intentions.’
David Copperfield
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Edinburgh's cobbled streets and wynds were perfect for scenes in the Julia Roberts-starring Jekyll and Hyde variation Mary Reilly, and were the setting for ITV's Dickensian Christmas extravaganza, Micawber, starring David Jason.
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Imposing financial discipline on the USA as a whole -- on a Micawberish country that forgot the concept of "affordable";
Dr. Vladimir A. Masch: Compensated Free Trade
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To use a burning consciousness of one’s own misery, of the shackles that cut one’s own limbs, to quicken one’s sense of life in general, as Dickens did, to shape out of the murk which has surrounded one’s childhood some resplendent figure such as Micawber or Mrs. Gamp, is admirable: but to use personal suffering to rivet the reader’s sympathy and curiosity upon your private case is disastrous.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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It would be great when Dom was back for the Easter vac and could point out the financial pitfalls to their Mr Micawber-inclined father.
TICKLED PINK
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Nobody likes Micawber less for his follies; and Dickens liked his father more, the more he recalled his whimsical qualities.
Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By John Forster
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Everyone knows Oliver and Fagin, not to mention David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Edwin Drood, Mr. Pickwick and the rest of the troop.
Our Dickens
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Richards, known as much for his high-living lifestyle as for his hard-driving guitar style, is famed for his love of Fender Telecasters--including the early '50s "Micawber" shown here, which he uses as a five-string tuned to an open-G.
Guitars Of The Stars © Getty...
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It is sufficient to know that the name to which I do myself the honour to refer, will ever be treasured among the muniments of our house (I allude to the archives connected with our former lodgers, preserved by Mrs. Micawber), with sentiments of personal esteem amounting to affection.
David Copperfield
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A certain nervous expectation, incipient disappointment mitigated by professional Micawberism, is a more accurate description.
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They need to learn Micawber economics - earn nineteen shillings, spend twenty shillings - result unhappiness. Earn twenty shillings spend nineteen shillings - result happiness. Simples.
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Aristide threw back his head, and laughed at the exquisite humour of the hypothesis, and gaily disclosed his Micawberish situation.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol
