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单词 clubbable
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“They wore tweed and offered me snuff. They were clubbable men with battered Range Rovers and vowels that bespoke Eton and Oxford.” Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z
I was obviously more clubbable than I had imagined. Review | Four literary fanzines that can save your life. Or at least make you less lonely. 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z
All that can be imagined in terms of social change is that privilege should be extended to a few select others, to the bright, the clubbable, the good at games. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z
And yet, as a largely self-taught artist, he was also careful not to alienate the establishment and to remain “clubbable.” ‘Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting’ Review: An Unclear Creative Influence 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z
Compared to the affability, the clubbable nature of many of the thinkers it describes, it is strident, partisan and always willing to overlook a fact in favour of a thesis. The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters by Anthony Pagden – review 2013-07-24T11:19:42Z
If never exactly clubbable, Dutilleux was one of the gentlest and most charming of men, with a delightful sense of humour. Henri Dutilleux obituary 2013-05-22T17:43:25Z
Those disinclined to formal wear still looked clubbable in Burberry check jackets, bow-ties and Hermès scarves. Edith Wharton?s World, Recast for ?Gossip Girl? 2011-03-02T22:22:52Z
His no-nonsense approach and clubbable personality meant that writers facing three long nights in Reykjavik with a miserable indie band would ask for Hugo by name. Hugo Dixon obituary 2010-12-03T16:25:00Z
The lithographs also convey a palpable sense of a clubbable generation. Bawden and battenberg: the Lyons teashop lithographs 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z
Over the course of four series, this blurring of reality has coloured how people respond to them in real life: seeing them as the clubbable Brydon and the prickly Coogan. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z
When things are going his way, he is clubbable and generous, guilty of little worse than small-town nepotism. Educating Agnes ? review 2011-04-12T17:29:03Z
The sense of being alone made her see herself as a permanent outsider, unable to share the clubbable social lives and experience of the men she worked with. Missionary zeal 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z
Mr. Weaver, while respected by his peers, isn’t a clubbable Washingtonian. Will This Guy Shut Off the Lights in the Sanders Campaign? 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z
Its top editors have tended to be tweedy, clubbable figures who slip between academia and the upper reaches of journalism. A Scrappy Makeover for a Tweedy Literary Fixture 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z
Kumar was an MP more likely to be found in the Commons library than the Stranger's Bar and his failure to be clubbable probably counted against him when it came to securing promotion. Ashok Kumar: Teesside's gentle, tenacious and respected pioneer 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z
Just as Trump bulldozes presidential norms, not least the one requiring him to attend the correspondents dinner, so Wolf bulldozed the norms of this hitherto clubbable gala. Rage, white supremacy and roses: the art that sums up the Trump era 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z
The title is appropriate: this is history with the emphasis on story, clubbable rather than scholarly but not overly so. 'I guess that's revealing': David Rubenstein on Trump and the weight of history 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z
Journalists say Wharton hauled the clubbable Johnson away from chatting to them last week in Portcullis House, with orders to speak to his chief media adviser, Lee Cain, if they wanted to ask him anything. Boris Johnson kept from media in ‘ruthlessly organised’ campaign 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z
The story of how the Premier League came into being is one of determination and deceit, of clubbable bureaucracy coming face to face with free-wheeling entrepreneurialism. Deceit, determination and Murdoch's millions: how Premier League was born 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z
Kaufman was not a clubbable man and not one to suffer fools either gladly or quietly, something that did not endear him to many of his parliamentary colleagues. Obituary: Gerald Kaufman - BBC News 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z
He was never truly clubbable, never a House of Commons man, cultivating friendships. Tory leadership: Behind the scenes of Johnson-Gove drama - BBC News 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z
But those that know the Russian billionaire describe him as a clubbable sort, whose interest in Chelsea, and the game in general, is passionate and unwavering. The key figures at Chelsea who will decide José Mourinho’s fate 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z
He already has a growing band of champions, led by Ben Wallace, the MP for Wyre and Preston North; yet he is less clubbable than he seems. A peculiar messiah 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z
His is a clubbable charisma, born of an attitude that saw him turn pro as much because he loved playing as any specific ambitions. Clubbable Clarke in good shape to lead 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z
Born in Glasgow, MacCormick pushed through reforms to Scotland's divorce laws during his time in the Commons, noted the Telegraph, which described him as "clubbable, civilised and with a natural streak of authority". The ex-MPs who died in 2014 - part two 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z
Mourne was established in the 1940s for residents of Newcastle, whom Royal County Down members generally consider to be less clubbable than residents of Belfast. The other golf course at Royal County Down: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z
Despite his clubbable image, he never had a large circle of friends or even much of a fan club within the party itself. The Alex Salmond story 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z
Warsi was thought insufficiently clubbable, which was inevitable when her agenda was to change the club culture. Sayeeda Warsi’s departure exposes David Cameron’s most basic flaw 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z
Harman will also recount getting advice from male colleagues not to "bang on too much" about women's issues, to keep her head down and hang out in the bar to show she was "clubbable". Harriet Harman to savage Gordon Brown over sexism and inequality 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z
He is vigorously clubbable, with frequent and acute spells of incorrigibility. An Ageless Music Man and His Makeshift Ensemble 2013-07-12T22:00:13Z
The American ambassador to London, David Bruce, was himself a fully assimilated clubbable Tory. The Profumo Affair, Revisited 2013-04-15T08:45:00Z
Investment was remorselessly channelled at those sports and athletes most likely to win medals and efforts made to shake up the sometimes cosy and clubbable world of sports administration. Baroness Sue Campbell: 'I really believe sport changes lives' 2013-03-25T14:50:24Z
The story in the Daily Mail reporting his replacement by Chapman refers to a discontent among the in-house pundits, for whom the clubbable, professional and largely forgettable Chapman is clearly a more palatable alternative. Colin Murray loses battle of bland as 'Chappers' sidles on to MOTD2 sofa 2013-01-22T16:46:14Z
One of his friends has called him a thoroughly "clubbable" man, which is probably going too far, but it was only in later years that he became an almost monastic recluse and used ear-stoppers. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z
I was so uncomfortably conscious that Mr. Benyon did not look a clubbable kind of man that I faltered in my speech. Amusement Only 2011-12-04T03:00:06.637Z
Johnson's talk had the quality of conversation, because, being a clubbable man, he enjoyed the give-and-take and the cut-and-thrust of the encounter. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z
From that list we excluded—by unanimous vote—one man whose literary work abundantly qualified him for membership, but whose cantankerous self-satisfaction rendered him, in the general opinion, a man not "clubbable." Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z
And it's deeply debatable whether a Whitehall recreation of the clubbable atmosphere of Britain's boardrooms is really a positive. Whitehall farce: with 400,000 civil servants at risk, jobs are offered to private sector titans 2010-12-19T00:06:20Z
The party stalwart is a clubbable pragmatist – as conscious of the commercial environment facing any employer as he is dedicated to ensuring the best outcome for his members. Can Unite's Tony Woodley forge a last-minute deal to avert the BA strike? 2010-05-22T23:06:00Z
With many MPs "enjoying" relatively small majorities it is advisable to get back as often as possible to the constituency before getting fully stuck into the clubbable London scene. First day 2010-05-18T08:44:00Z
It turns out that he is a shortish, respectably groomed figure, sporting a clubbable red and blue tie for his congressional appearance. Goldman Sachs banker Fabrice Tourre faces the music 2010-04-27T22:16:00Z
But he was not a clubbable man, Borrow!  George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903
They were probably "clubbable" persons, friends with a common interest, each pursuing his own path with perfect freedom, a method which must have enhanced the harmony and efficiency of their meetings. The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester
But, what is far more important than analysis or criticism, he had an entirely lovable personality and was a most clubbable man.  Immortal Memories
Is this a confirmation, I wonder, of the theory entertained by Mr. Emerson and other philosophers, that woman is not a 'clubbable' animal? France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
In the sense that Dr. Johnson meant, all these wits and beaux whom our Whartons have gathered together were eminently clubbable. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1
Oxford was still de facto a close clerical corporation, and in most colleges 'clubbable men' rather than scholars were chosen for the fellowships. Outspoken Essays
I suppose I am not, as Johnson said, a "clubbable" man. What I Remember, Volume 2
He fulfils Johnson's test of a good fellow: he is "a clubbable man." Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
With brilliancy enough to have won success if he had had patience to ensure it, he was not only a pleasant companion, a "clubbable man" in Johnson's phrase, but a friend to trust. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
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