Quindt, the office quidnunc, nervously hovered near the door of the men's room.
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I went my way home and to bed, but was not done with quidnunc.
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He even becomes a quidnunc, prying now and then into the personal affairs of his superiors.
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There will always be at least one quidnunc keen on telling you that your life lacks purpose.
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Before ATG, Bob was CEO of Quidnunc, a privately-held web consultancy firm with headquarters in London.
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Even there I have never been satisfied that quidnunc became man to the extent that Mrs. Ventris did.
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Beside the quidnunc and the party politician, another class of reader now appeared demanding aliment in the press.
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Being the nosiest person I know, a quidnunc by definition, I usually will do anything to find out something.
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Since busybody customers may be hard to come by, staff should be encouraged to act the part of the quidnunc.
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According to recent research carried out by Quidnunc UK retailers are making significant progress in supporting e-commerce and delivering comprehensive website usability.
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If quidnunc and Mrs. Ventris were not under our law, neither are the sun, moon and stars, neither are the apes and peacocks.
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I have not personally come across any other cases where a male fairy took upon him the burden of a man than that of quidnunc.
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But it's a good introduction to the sober Fox and his younger partner, Jamie Breck, a master player of a computer game Rankin has whimsically named Quidnunc.
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Madam Lavallée, I did in a sense, and I plead guilty to being a very poor one. I felt at one point like a quidnunc, a malicious gossip.
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Quidnunc, An Irishman's Diary, Irish Times, 2 June 1942, p. 2 In 1721 the Corporation reconstructed and raised the level of the City Basin at St. James Gate. This was the final stage of the development of the Poddle supply.
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In his first season, he played Don Lewis in 'Love makes a Man,' Darby in the 'Poor Soldier,' Quidnunc in the 'Upholsterer,' Lazarillo in 'Two Strings to your Bow,' Level in High Life Below Stairs Cassander in 'Alexander the Little,' Pedrillo in the 'Castle of Andalusia,' Daphne in 'Midas Reversed,' Tipple in the 'Flitch of Bacon,' and Camillo in the 'Double Falsehood.' On 4 February 1791 he was the original Sir Samuel Sheepy in Thomas Holcroft's School for Arrogance, an adaptation of Le glorieux of Philippe Néricault Destouches. On 14 March he was the first Frank in O'Keeffe's Modern Antiques, and 16 April the earliest Ephraim Smooth in O'Keeffe's Wild Oats. Munden played between two and three hundred characters.
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After the war he re-joined The Irish Times (using the pseudonym 'Quidnunc'), and given charge of the column "Irishman's Diary". He had a weekly column for the Irish edition of the Sunday Dispatch before working on the paper in London from 1947 to 1949. He was assistant editor of Lilliput from 1947 to 1953. His writings also appeared in The Sunday Times. His books, mostly collections of humorous pieces that were originally published in newspapers and magazines, included Constantly in Pursuit, Come Here Till I Tell You, Life in Thin Slices (1951), An Irishman's Diary, Patrick Campbell's Omnibus (1954), A Short Trot with a Cultured Mind, A Long Drink of Cold Water, How to Become a Scratch Golfer (1963), The P-P-Penguin Patrick Campbell (1965), Brewing Up in the Basement, Rough Husbandry, All Ways on Sundays (1966), A Bunch of New Roses, The Coarse of Events, Gullible Travels, The High Speed Gasworks, Waving All Excuses, Patrick Campbell's Golfing Book, Fat Tuesday Tails (1972), 35 Years on the Job (1973), The Campbell Companion (1987) and an autobiography, My Life and Easy Times.
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"A motif of Swift's work at this time was his bird imagery, which appeared to him to have symbolic overtones, and may even have been a subtle form of self- portraiture. Certainly Seamus Kelly, in his 'Quidnunc' column a few days after the Waddington opening, noted that the artist himself resembled one of his own birds — beaknosed, sharp-eyed, wiry, with a kind of nervous, intense presence. The self-portrait mentioned bears this out, with its questioning, almost withdrawn look. This is the typical Irish artist-intellectual of the post-war years..." — Brian Fallon (critic), "Patrick Swift and Irish Art" (1993), Patrick Swift: An Irish Painter in Portugal, Gandon Editions, 2001 From early on he was involved with literary magazines,"From early on Swift was associated with literary magazines..." — Brian Fallon, "The fall and rise of Patrick Swift", The Irish Times, 11 June 1992 such as The Bell and Envoy, contributing the occasional critical piece on art and artists he admired (e.g.Nano Reid,"Nano Reid", by Patrick Swift, Envoy, March 1950;article who painted Swift's portrait in 1950).
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