| 单词 | donnish |
| 例句 | That donnish figure in glasses is clearly in control. Books of The Times: ?Smut: Stories? by Alan Bennett ? Review 2011-12-29T23:29:06Z There is something about her – her well-organised and formidable intellect, her straight-backed neatness of person, the donnish precision of her conversation – that reduces me to the condition of disorganised undergraduate. Interview: Penelope Curtis 2010-11-30T21:30:00Z Although some readers found these asides a little donnish, the dispensation of particulars achieved a sensuous flow: you could go swimming in Porter’s omniscience. Postscript: Andrew Porter (1928-2015) 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Stace, an enthusiastic, donnish Englishman with an honors degree in English literature from Jesus College, Cambridge, and a head stuffed full of historical trivia, is an expert on both double lives and music. Whodunit Most Musical by a Musician Most Literary 2011-02-19T01:45:10Z In fact, this biography reads like two books: one an intelligent, even donnish work of criticism that connects the poems to the life, the other a sensationalistic anthology of gossip and subdued malice. ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z There was a suspicion too that the truculent Stirling despised his donnish clients. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z There was no donnish fussiness in his manner, just knowledge, which he was happy to share. W. G. Sebald and the Emigrants 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z With his droopy face and dark-rimmed eyes, Sarris brought donnish gravitas to movie criticism, his reviews packing intellectual heft at a time when US movies demanded to be taken seriously. Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows 2012-06-21T14:30:15Z We meet at his south London home, where he sits surrounded by teetering piles of books, great leaning towers of learning, and the conversation frequently detours into donnish tutorial mode. AC Grayling: 'How can you be a militant atheist? It's like sleeping furiously' 2011-04-03T20:00:01Z In his cap and gown, he looked whatever the opposite of donnish is. The Message of Measles 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Simons has retained a donnish air from his days as a lecturer. Democratic donor built up vast $8bn private wealth fund in Bermuda 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z I think when I meet those arguments I tend to become a bit donnish, perhaps slightly finger-wagging. Election blind dates: Peter Stringfellow and Mary Beard - BBC News 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Mark even looked like one of those donnish figures fictionalised in the pages of the Cold War thrillers he loved. Remembering Mark Colvin: A lodestar for journalism, and life - BBC News 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z He still fires up the forge now and then, either to do donnish demonstrations for new hires or to make things: door hinges, fireplace sets, a shovel for his son’s pizza oven. Patagonia’s Philosopher-King 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Bullying - The Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge Julian Huppert, a man with donnish levels of detail, complained of being "bullied" in the Commons chamber. 2013: A political year in words 2013-12-24T14:28:23Z "A little prima donnish for a lineman," Smith quipped. 49ers beat Browns 20-10 for 5th straight win 2011-10-31T01:44:07Z "Really, Miss Allison——" he began in his most dignified Oxford donnish manner. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z But all three are obscure and deeply moving topics, topics for which the donnish mind has a kind of special ineptitude, and which it evades with the utmost skill and delicacy. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Mr. King, the donnish governor of the Bank of England, has been accused of presiding over the worst stagflation — a dreaded combination of stagnant economic activity and rising inflation — happening in any major developed economy. A Crisis of Faith in Britain?s Central Banker 2011-02-07T00:53:01Z For once, Cable's mild, almost donnish manner vanishes. Vince Cable: 'What we're managing is quite a difficult situation' 2010-08-09T07:00:00Z Indeed, King's formidable intellect was matched by a rather donnish, youthful appearance, but he was not only a theoretician. Charles Spencer King obituary 2010-07-12T17:27:00Z With his flowing white beard and donnish, almost magical air, Irving Finkel looks every inch the learned scholar. The missing items 2010-03-31T08:38:00Z The proctor was a gentlemanly, straight-forward looking man of about thirty, not at all donnish, and his address answered to his appearance. Tom Brown at Oxford Sheffield said he liked people to be natural, and hated that donnish manner. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert I thought that he was affecting the poet, and in me he found a donnish affectation of the British sportsman. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) He was stiff and donnish, and had scarcely condescended to speak to any one. The Three Lieutenants He had known dons at Oxford, and placed Lady Latimer in the donnish caste: that was all. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax Never were dons of the donnish sort more brilliantly twitted than by young Belloc. Shandygaff He looks rather an ascetic--rather donnish, don't you think? Jason I have before me a letter to one of the evening papers, written in a tone of academic sarcasm which proves that even the supercilious and "donnish" element is not lacking in Chicago culture. America To-day, Observations and Reflections In spite of its timid conservatism and rather donnish society, as Professor Child termed it, it was one of the pleasantest places to live in on this side the Atlantic. Cambridge Sketches I do not know whether I am donnish with him, or if I bullied him too much when he was little; but he is always counter to me. The Pillars of the House, V1 One does get donnish and superior, no doubt, and it is useful to find it out, though it isn't pleasant at the time. Watersprings Whatever the effects may be on Shelleyan commentators, it must be said that, to the donnish eye, Percy Bysshe Shelley was nothing more or less than the ordinary Oxford poet, of the quieter type. Oxford If he was taken in, his answer was dictated simply by a donnish unwillingness to allow any one to be better informed on any subject than he was himself. Erewhon Revisited He has become now almost the leading Character in a little donnish world of much too intensely appreciated Characters. The New Machiavelli He felt that Jack was not pleased with his puppets; his father had needed no apologies or explanations, Maud had been forward, he himself had been donnish. Watersprings |
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