Word: blimpish
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...What is here is professionalization. The stiff challenge of simultaneously upgrading facilities while lowering entrance fees to attract new members in a recessionary economy requires officials of stronger nerves than the blimpish club presidents of yore. Harbinger of the new wave is Andrew Mckenzie, the young chairman of the United Services Recreation Club (USRC). By day, he manages a large construction company and so brings a business brain to the clubhouse, salting his conversation with marketing speak like "strategic partnership" and "image enhancement...
...Such Blimpish prejudice is galling, especially to those who, regarding themselves as tough-minded and not fainthearted, will see these books as further evidence that war is too devilishly attractive to be left to the generals. Hackett's lip-smacking language ("seek and destroy armor, shortened into the not infelicitous little acronym SADARM") can make the military mind seem demented. But civilian harrumphing is no more useful than the military kind, and reading Hackett's prickly books goads the reader to ask: How can the human race evolve beyond the savagery of tribalistic nationalism? -By John Skow...
...plays were written with him in mind) and a 1966 Tony winner for his Marquis de Sade in the Royal Shakespeare Company's New York City production of Marat/Sade; of a heart attack; in London. Magee supported his stage art by playing film heavies, most recently a Colonel Blimpish Olympic Committee member in 1981's Chariots of Fire...
...instance, and the gentle strength of Ian Charleson as Liddell. A word of praise, too, goes to a supporting cast that includes Sir John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a pair of congealed Cambridge dons, Nigel Davenport and Patrick Magee as Olympic committeemen respectively too smooth and too Blimpish. Like every element in this picture, the actors look right; they seem to emerge from the past, instead of being pasted on to it, as so many characters in historical movies seem...
There are more awkward juxtapositions. Camelot is sometimes historical pageant, sometimes operetta. The language veers from the chivalric mode to slangy vernacular. Things begin in a comedic vein with the babbling buffoonery of Merlyn (James Valentine) and the blimpish insularity of King Pellinore (Paxton Whitehead), and then turn somber with the threatened burning of Guenevere at the stake...