Word: pickwickian
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...remind our excellent friends- however much we may enjoy their little jeux d'esprit - that we are all more or less bound by social conventions; and the outside and unrefined world are sadly apt not to take insult or invective, as we know it is given,- purely, in a Pickwickian sense...
...acquittal on charges of murdering an 81-year-old patient who had remembered him in her will was followed by his expulsion from Britain's Medical Register for 14 violations of prescription, dangerous-drug and cremation regulations. Reinstated after being rebuffed in two previous petitions, the portly Pickwickian physician will not resume his fashionable private practice, plans instead to do research in anesthesiology...
...watched the wedding of Britain's Princess Margaret on NBC-TV last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), they heard a flow of murmured Mayfairisms that were almost as impressive as the Archbishop of Canterbury's solemnity. It was the sable-tongued voice of Richard Dimbleby, a tall, benign, Pickwickian commentator so unfailingly proper that he all but calls the thing in his hand a Michael. Dropping sterling syllables into the air from his glass-paneled aerie 60 ft. above Westminster Abbey's nave, Dimbleby lived up not only to his reputation as England's best commentator...
Stanley Jay is drolly Pickwickian as the head-borough Verges. But Ralph Drischell has extracted little of the meat from the self-inflated, malapropistic Dogberry. Robert Evans fails to convey the villainy of Don John, who openly proclaims his evilness several times to the audience; he is nothing worse than childishly petulant. John Brockington's friar also needs more work...
...ideal diplomat. She has trouble keeping separate the many things she is and dimming her own radiance enough to see the prudent course. Yet she is certainly among the better noncareer diplomats we've had, a woman of the world, who in no sense but the Pickwickian is an "ugly American...