There's something donnish in his ruminations, and the 33 entries in the collection represent the marginalia of a life in academia and letters : the texts of addresses to gatherings of scholars and theater lovers, introductions to literary anthologies, Waugh-like bits of satire.
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I very seldom do as the reviewer's cliche has it and stay up all night to finish a book, but this time I did, perhaps a little homesick for rural American diction after all that hard Los Angeles talk and the calm tones of donnish Oxford.
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"Aesthetically, I like the whole idea of this group of artists and writers, freethinking, just doing what they did in this eccentric manner, " said Iha, 34, sitting in hipbone hugging jeans in a red leather club chair in his English donnish living room.
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Because it deals so fundamentally with the war between head and heart, " Arcadia " requires a tricky trade-off between clever ideas and gut-level gags, between Stoppard's donnish speculations and the metaphysical clowning for which he's both celebrated and, occasionally, faulted.
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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 ).
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Beyond the visitors gallery, Sen . Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the donnish New York Democrat, arrived for " the meeting of the eights " _ a private bipartisan conference of 16 senators who searched through the day for a workable trial procedure, struggling into the very eve of the trial's opening.
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Personally, I prefer Stoppard's portrait in " The Invention of Love, " in which Wilde shows up as the bright antithesis of that play's gray hero, the repressed and donnish A . E . Housman, and exclaims, " Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light ."
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The film in question, which Eyre wrote and directed, is " Iris, " a compact account of the last days of the novelist Iris Murdoch ( Judi Dench ) and her relationship with her stuttering, donnish husband, John Bayley ( Jim Broadbent ), who must take charge when his wife begins to succumb to Alzheimer's disease.
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Feminist film critic Molly Haskell wrote an approving review in the " Village Voice " : " Lazenby . . . seems more comfortable in a wet tuxedo than a dry martini, more at ease as a donnish genealogist than reading ( or playing ) " Playboy ", and who actually dares to think that one woman who is his equal is better than a thousand part-time playmates ".
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I speak of the new and obsolete James Bond, played by a man named George Lazenby, who seems more comfortable in a wet tuxedo than a dry martini, more at ease as a donnish genealogist than reading ( or playing ) " Playboy ", and who actually dares to think that one woman who is his equal is better than a thousand part-time playmates . " Haskell was also affected by the film's emotional ending : " The love between Bond and his Tracy begins as a payment and ends as a sacrament.
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