In his cap and gown, he looked whatever the opposite of donnish is.
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This young littérateur, I thought, dramatized his seriousness by affecting a donnish aura.
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A donnish expert on trade law, Ms Tsai picked up a party in tatters in 2008 after its first, disastrous, presidency.
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But their donnish approach, as admirable as it is, does result in Mr Guadagnino's "Suspiria" lasting an hour longer than Mr Argento's did.
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During a long, donnish life he also found time to co-write the only dictionary for Krio, the lingua franca of Sierra Leone.
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Because Lear was lodged far more securely in Victorian society than the donnish Carroll was, his art mirrors and parodies it more precisely.
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A donnish former law professor who has toned down her party's traditional support for such a declaration, Ms Tsai promised in her victory speech a stable and predictable relationship with China.
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Academics complain about "the decline of the donnish dominion" (the title of a book by A.H. Halsey, a sociologist), and administrators are locked in bad-tempered exchanges with the politicians who fund them.
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Brad Leithauser from The New York Times appreciated the inspirational nature of the book. He described this book as exhibiting "a donnish ease while blending amusement with edification". While writing an overall positive review, Joel Fishbane criticized unnecessary additions to the book, such as an expansive glossary and songs written as gifts to friends in Theatre Journal.
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Facts, not speculation – > facts. He also served as Deputy Director in the Office of Contract Settlement (1947 – 49). > I know I made some enemies in this process, by boring in. That I assume was > one reason that Tom Clark was not prepared to tell me and even aside from > that frankly I doubt if there's anybody more prima donnish than intelligence > people – and in this capacity, the Attorney General is an intelligence guy, > dealing with an intelligence function.
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While at Perth, he became embroiled in the ritualist controversy. John Wordsworth described Fortescue as: > In dress Provost Fortescue was carefully clerical, but in an old-fashioned > style. although not much, if at all, below average height, he looked shorter > from his habit of holding his head rather bent and forward. ...If he did not > like his company, or did not feel sure of it, Provost Fortescue used to > adopt a somewhat donnish, reserved, enigmatical manner and spoke little and > (apparently) unwillingly.
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Butler's father was a Fellow, and in later life the Master, of Pembroke College.Howard, p. 3. In July 1909, at the age of six, his right arm was broken in three places in a riding accident.Jago 2015, p.5 The injury was aggravated by a burn from a hot water bottle and an attempt to straighten the arm by hanging weights from it, leaving his hand not fully functional.Matthew 2004, p. 199. His limp handshake and lack of military experience (and his stooping donnish manner at a time when many politicians were former officers) were political handicaps in later life.
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A triumph." Henry Hitchings of Evening Standard gave the play four out of five stars, writing that "This isn't an obvious star vehicle, and there's certainly plenty for those around Kidman to get their teeth into in Michael Grandage's smartly paced production. Edward Bennett and Will Attenborough combine vigorously as Francis Crick and James Watson, whose names are today synonymous with scientific sleuthing, and Stephen Campbell Moore brings just the right degree of donnish clumsiness to Maurice Wilkins, who shared their Nobel Prize in 1962 (four years after Franklin's untimely death). Only the American researcher Don Caspar (the excellent Patrick Kennedy) seems capable of treating her as a person rather than an obstacle.
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However, Jacky becomes drunk at the reception, and when she sees Henry she recognizes and exposes him as a former lover from years ago. Henry is embarrassed and ashamed to have been revealed as an adulterer in front of Margaret, but she forgives him and agrees to send the Basts away. After the wedding, Helen, upset with Margaret's decision to marry a man she loathes prepares to leave for Germany, but not before giving in to her attraction for Leonard having sex with him while out boating. Fearing that the Basts will be penniless, Helen sends instruction from Germany to her donnish brother Tibby to make over £5000 of her own money to Leonard.
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