Word: quakerish
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...especially the interpretation that should be praised. J. J. Collier was Beranger--a poetic, gentle Beranger--perhaps a little too "Quakerish", but this is the fault of the author and not of the actor. He was particularly good in his first dialogue with Talleyrand and in the last act. He had in Miss Googins a partner of the first rank. She played the role of Lisette, in her three successive impersonations, with intelligence, vivacity, wit, and charming youthfulness. She modulates her voice with rare perfection, and her acting is graceful without affectation, light with none of those "mannerisms" that...
...revealed his method of literary composition when he was having the greatest difficulty in phrasing the narrative to suit him. From Whittier came the manuscript of several poems, together with a letter suggesting that one of them is of a class of poems of mine which are rather un-Quakerish.' Thackeray is represented by a bit of the 'Roundabout Papers,' Sydney Smith by his 'Letter to the Pennsylvanians' who had repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha.' Charles Reade's first draft of 'The Box Tunnel' is accompanied by two letters, expressing his appreciation of the fact that...