Word: dickensian
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...book-jacket specialists, English publishers frequently paid recognized artists to design jackets. Since commercialized publicity jackets have proven ineffective in England, publishers have stressed tasteful, artistic appeals to a discriminating public. Kleist's favorite designer is Edward Ardizzone, an illustrator of children's books who Paints "typically English, Dickensian characters" in subduded watercolors...
...grande dame is there, and to have missed her would be to miss one of Boston's most charming moods. It's an anachronism that somehow works, a reversion that is delightful rather than reactionary. It is perhaps the only mood in which the Dickensian Charles Basin skyline is more impressive than the tall, sterile Prudential. That Dickens touch is, actually, the keynote to Boston's Christmas. Inexplicably one expects to hear "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" instead of "Jingle Bells...
...this tedious mishmash only Peter Bull, as Sergeant Buzfuz, shows an authentic Dickensian flair. Like a Daumier-lawyer print brought to life, he knows the precise satirical boiling point where caricature reveals character, where broadness of humor acquires the beef of wit. He is an estimable and melancholy measure of the show that might have been...
Poverty? Americans with bloated bellies? People living under bridges? Beggars in the street? Children dying for lack of doctoring? Of course not. Nonetheless, the U.S. has its angry, frustrated poor. People who do not suffer poverty tend to think of it in absolute, merely materialist terms of Dickensian squalor. In fact, poverty has to be measured relative to the rising standard of living, the tenderer social conscience, the national capacity for creating wealth. Poverty is the condition-and the awareness-of being left behind while, economically, everyone else is marching forward...
...defendants, said Belli in his complaint, belong to "a small coterie of individuals devoted to perpetuating ancient and customary injustices and Dickensian practices in law against individuals, seamen, railroad workers, union members, pedestrians, motorists, and those belonging to minority groups and unpopular causes." Craig himself had acted "willfully and wantonly and maliciously and viciously and with ill will and in spite and in an attempt to obstruct justice and deter the orderly administration...