How To Use Waugh In A Sentence

The title of Evelyn Waugh's first novel was 'Decline and Fall'.
ROAD TO MOROCCO: Southfield Technolgy College pupils (from left) Niall Topping, Jake Daniel, PJ Kent, Heather Waugh and Josh Burns who are to trek in Morocco T&S news feed
I'd known that auld lang syne meant something like "old time's sake" and that a right guid-willie waught was probably a decent measure of whisky, but I'd never stopped at fiere. How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship | Jackie Kay
And as a bonus there are a few literary/review essays on writers like Nabokov, Sebald and Evelyn Waugh.
And we'll tak a right guid [230-17] willie-waught [230-18] Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6

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Immediately after the interval Stewart, who had just kept wicket for the best part of 100 overs, edged to Steve Waugh in the gully and the head had been knocked off the innings.
Evelyn Waugh couldn't have scripted it better.
In between, Lara hit a flurry of boundaries and was involved in a verbal exchange with rival captain Steve Waugh that forced the intervention of umpire David Shepherd.
These characters could inhabit an early Waugh but not a later one, where dipsomania is not a joke but a debilitating disease that wrecks lives.
Two of the abler young novelists of the time, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, were converts to Roman Catholicism.
Waugh's first volume of memoirs dealt with his childhood and youth.
Not since ITV's Brideshead Revisited, 20 years ago now, has an English country house been home to so many familiar names, and if Gosford Park life lacks the vicious streak of Evelyn Waugh's work, its playful devilry is a joy.
He is part of the starry ensemble in Stephen Fry's Evelyn Waugh adaptation Bright Young Things.
Henry Waugh lives, said Curt Young of Chittenango, N.Y., referring to a 1968 Robert Coover novel about an accountant who immerses himself in a baseball parlor game. Baseball's Original Nerd Magnet
The title of Evelyn Waugh's first novel was 'Decline and Fall'.
Hilaire Belloc, J.K. Huysmans, G.K. Chesterton, and Evelyn Waugh (who quoted The Waste Land frequently) all made an initial reputation for nightmarish satire before retreating into a not always convincing nook of Catholicism. Letters to the Editor
Prof. John S. Waugh extended it for applications to solid state resonance, and the research group of Prof. Ray Freeman, particularly Geoffrey Bodenhausen, contributed some of the first heteronuclear experiments. Richard R. Ernst - Autobiography
So all things considered Steve Waugh is equipped to become a stellar media performer, and which seems almost mandatory when a legend now leaves the crease.
Waugh's radiant face reflected the state of his inner soul.
It is not his fault if Waugh's world view seeps too biliously through the pictures, or if one of the central actors has been drastically miscast.
Unlike Waugh, Frayn is bitter-sweet rather than utterly satirical about journalism.
‘Not many clubs allow you to bring your dogs,’ Auberon Waugh said with satisfaction as he patted a Labrador that had insinuated itself under our table.
William Boot demanded of the Daily Beast's foreign editor on being invited to report on an African civil war in Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's immortal 1938 comic novel of journalism.
Mark and Steve Waugh - nobody was angry until Sir Alex Ferguson brought in the 'hairdryer', which definitely isn't another word for shouting at players which every other manager definitely hadn't been doing anyway since Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
And then it occurs to one that this is brilliant, that Waugh has rescued his tale from squalor and intolerableness in order to instruct us. If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Vile Bodies « Unknowing
Novelist Evelyn Waugh graphically described the tableau as ‘a wildly vivacious statue of the Abbe Faria, a Goan mesmerist of the Napoleonic era, caught here in hot bronze at the climax of an experiment, rampant over an entranced female.’
Ian Waugh looks at the rise of one of the country's most controversial political figures.
Waugh said he was also looking forward to his personal contest with Schalk Burger at the breakdown, which he describes as enjoyable and always tough. Iac world news feed
‘Many an old wood,’ Edwin Waugh claimed, ‘many a retired clough and running stream, many a lonely well and ancient building is still the reputed haunt of some old local sprite or boggart.’
Those winds "impinge" on J. Henry Waugh in a particularly destructive way. Saying Something
The Test opener had hit a four over point the previous delivery and was attempting the same shot which flew into the safe hands of Mark Waugh in slips in the final ball of the session.
If he wants to be tight all the time," said Julia Flyte of her dipsomaniacal brother Sebastian in Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited," "then why doesn't he go and live in Kenya? Forging a Country in African Wilds
Mrs. Waugh readily consented to accompany her favorite, and also to try to induce "Hebe," as she called blooming Marian, to make one of their party. The Missing Bride
Although a hard-nosed pragmatist, Waugh was hurt that his batting was not given due credit.
Orwell, Evelyn Waugh and Belloc considered him unequalled as a writer of prose fiction.
Suffice it to say that Waugh might have trouble getting anyone to print his story today.
Earlier, star batsman Mark Waugh passed a fitness test on an injured left hand but abandoned his usual place in the slips and fielded in the deep.
Mr Waugh said council staff and contractors yesterday repaired the breach of the stopbank near Whakatane and had now finished the emergency repair works. New Zealand Herald - Top Stories
Waugh angrily bustled out of the conference after his side failed to make the finals of the tri-nations series.
Certainly almost all the best English wine writers seem to have begun life as wine merchants, including such late luminaries as André Simon (a prolific writer for whom a prestigious wine book prize is named) and Harry Waugh (a waggish one who famously described a 1961 Château Latour as simply a wine with "lots of color and bags of fruit"—this was, long before the two-paragraph tasting note). What to Read With a Good Beaujolais
The title of Evelyn Waugh's first novel was 'Decline and Fall'.
But Waugh is a stickler for the protocol of language, manners and tradition.
In London, Evelyn Waugh used to walk through rainstorms into Hampstead to mail letters so that they'd be franked with the prestigious NW3 postcode. Following the Bobos to Greener Pastures
In the past a 'fetcher' such as Waugh could make a tackle, get to his feet, and contest possession. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
The Waugh in question is of course Evelyn, whose first two novels, "Decline and Fall" and "Vile Bodies," made him so famous that newspapers began to send him off, as their correspondent, to remote places and big events, of which Haile Selassie's coronation as Emperor of Ethiopia in 1930 was perhaps the most remarkable. Five Best: Larry McMurtry
Oxford, as Evelyn Waugh astutely observed, is a city best seen in early summer.
I'd known that auld lang syne meant something like "old time's sake" and that a right guid-willie waught was probably a decent measure of whisky, but I'd never stopped at fiere. How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship | Jackie Kay
When we came to Heres a hand, my trusty frere, we all joined hands round the table; and when we declared we would take a right gude willie-waught, and hadnt the least idea what it meant, we were really affected. XVII. Somebody Turns Up
Steve Waugh, the Australian captain, commented that the margin of victory did not bother him.
The world of sport is a breeding ground for clichés and for long Waugh has been seen as a cussed old fiend, fighting till the very end.
It is not his fault if Waugh's world view seeps too biliously through the pictures, or if one of the central actors has been drastically miscast.
Almost all current writing about Africa depends on a blend of Joseph Conrad and Evelyn Waugh: the brooding, throbbing stagnation of the Congo and the sinister farce of egomaniacal "Afrocentric" politics. African Gothic
It was properly sparked off in 2001, when an all-conquering Australian side under Steve Waugh suffered a rare reverse in a remarkable, topsy-turvy series in India, where they ran into a young Harbhajan Singh , who took 32 wickets in three matches, and were on the receiving end of a mammoth, series-turning 376 partnership between VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid at Kolkata. A Boxing Day Treat to Savor
That he would use this term, as well as the equally condescending "zany" in referring to this latter comedy makes his valuation of it clear enough, but later he also remarks that "Evelyn Waugh, alas, still represents the great image of English comedy in the 20th century, rather than his subtler and gentler contemporary, Henry Green. Comedy in Literature
One feels very much in the company of Waugh as one pages through the magazine.
Burns told Thomson and Mrs. Dunlop that this noble and most moving song was old; but nobody believed him then, and nobody believes him now. pint-stoup = _pint-mug_ braes = _hill-sides_ gowans = _daisies_ paidl't = _paddled_ burn = _brook_ fiere = _friend_, _companion_ guid-willie = _well-meant_, _full of good-will_ waught = _draught_ Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
Actually, I was quite worried about doing a comic novel, because I'm a massive fan of PG Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh, and I was terrified I was going to lapse into a pastiche of their style.
Ye'll hae a waught wi 'me afore ye gang, John," he said clumsily, "for th 'morns we've paddl' 't thegither i 'th' Nith. Richard Carvel — Volume 04
Back in 1989, as he contemplated a Test debut bowling to Marsh, Taylor, Boon, Border, Jones and S Waugh on an Oval shirtfront, Alan Igglesden received a timely self-esteem boost when the chairman of selectors Ted Dexter told the world Igglesden was the 14th-choice seamer. Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
Betjeman refused and blamed Waugh in part for the estrangement in his marriage.
These will not be numbered among the devotees of Waugh, and probably struggle with pompousness, may be cumbrous or even clumsy from time to time. If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Decline and Fall « Unknowing
Waugh has duelled with Smith since their under-21 days and knows only too well that he held the upper hand for just two Tests in 2001 when he was last preferred.
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A subdued Adam Gilchrist joined Waugh, and the pair set about milking the bowling as Australia at first struggled to emulate their effortless dominance of day one.
These will not be numbered among the devotees of Waugh, and probably struggle with pompousness, may be cumbrous or even clumsy from time to time. If I Could Have a Conversation about It: Decline and Fall « Unknowing
What will also nettle Waugh is Ricky Ponting's success as Australia's new one-day skipper.
Mr Waugh said a number of stopbank inspections have occurred as a result of reported seepages and staff have done some minor sandbagging of stormwater grates in Edgecumbe as a result. NZ On Screen
By nature he is a social realist in the tradition of Upton Sinclair, whose novels he reveres along with those of social satirist Evelyn Waugh.
The nightwatchman Richard Dawson didn't last long, driving Gillespie to Waugh in the gully in the second over of the morning.
He hired Bryan Applewhite as running backs coach, Leon Lett as defensive tackles coach, Jason Nichols as receivers coach, Brandon Shelby as quarterbacks coach and Adam Waugh as safeties coach. Around the Sun Belt Conference
When we came to 'Here's a hand, my trusty frere' we all joined hands round the table; and when we declared we would 'take a right gude willie waught,' and hadn't the least idea what it meant, we were really affected. Charles Dickens and Music
So gies a haund my trusty fiere/ and here's a haund o' thine;/ And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught/ For auld lang syne. How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship | Jackie Kay
But a remark by Evelyn Waugh about the juvenilia of Ronald Knox comes to mind, that only by ‘shameless and inept experiments’ does any writer achieve ‘mastery of a very difficult language’.
So gies a haund my trusty fiere/ and here's a haund o' thine;/ And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught/ For auld lang syne. How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship | Jackie Kay
From his first appearance, Waugh wore the air of the silent but deadly gunslinger, a steely-eyed, cold-hearted winner.
Now there are many things I will take for the Co-operative Movement, but a right good willi-waught is not one of them! Archive 2005-09-01
In a boneheaded error straight out of an Evelyn Waugh novel, a high-level muckymuck at the Times must have barked, "Get me Billy Crystal for the Op-Ed page!" and some poor schnook thumbed through a rolodex and called The Wrong Guy. Hullabaloo
Included in their varied contributions were poems and writings of Tim Bobbin and Edwin Waugh.
Yet the Browns harbour no bitterness towards Waugh over the destruction of their business.
It's like a scene out of Anthony Powell or Evelyn Waugh, a bit of macabre comedy that seems innocent compared with the grotesqueries of the bloodshed ahead.
‘As a parent of young children, I felt that there was a need to offer some simple advice on a range of topics such as bed-wetting, bullying and term dates,’ says Waugh.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground, a contemporary colosseum, growls and echoes eerily as Waugh makes the long walk to the crease.
Evelyn Waugh might have dismissed them as pathetic muddlers who did not belong in the church.
As Evelyn Waugh says on the back of all the Penguin editions, ‘Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale.’
Waugh's first volume of memoirs dealt with his childhood and youth.
To watch Waugh bat is to be reminded of a bygone era in Australian cricket, a time when they were made to graft for every run and sweat for every victory.
The appearance of Graves, hinting at decadence, reinforces the notion that he wasted too much time playing toffee-nosed twits in Waughesque nostalgia flicks, when his range as an actor stretches far beyond billiard room banter.
Waugh, Graves, Maugham, Wodehouse, Coward: the interwar writer had not really arrived until he had a passport, a boat or train ticket and a chunky brass key to a room in a European capital. House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review
Waugh revised this ending for the 1965 recension of the three works, and decided that Guy and his new wife Domenica should be childless.

How To Use Waugh In A Sentence

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