And Ms. Beck's brisk and composed Alice comes across as merely waspish instead of vitriolic.
|
|
And then someone who would completely throw the party into chaos, someone incredibly opinionated and waspish, like Dirk Bogarde.
|
|
A Jewish lawyer, he had clashed with Stalin while serving in Moscow and shrugged off anti-Semitism in the WASPish State Department.
|
|
Elsewhere the memoir is leavened with waspish wit: Sir Nicholas's ear for comedy is as sharply attuned for the page as the stage.
|
|
Cush Jumbo plays the waspish Katherina and Janet McTeer is her suitor, the wily Petruchio — a role she previously played at Shakespeare's Globe.
|
|
In Malay, the name means "peace and tranquillity," although more waspish locals say it actually stands for So Expensive and Nothing to See Also.
|
|
Holmes, played with a waspish glee by Benedict Cumberbatch, delighted in solving puzzles no one else could solve, and we delighted along with him.
|
|
George Conway's waspish response to his wife and her own tweet each implicitly referenced the ongoing House impeachment inquiry into Trump's pressuring of Ukraine to investigate Biden while withholding military aid to that country.
|
|
In the show, Ilana takes pride in her frizzy, curly hair, though her pride was hard-earned; in a flashback episode to 2010, Ilana straightens her hair to fit in with her waspish college roommates.
|
|
The waspish, wistful Georgie (nicely played by Philippa Quinn) is the central character of Cicely Hamilton's "Just to Get Married," first staged in 1911 and now at the Finborough Theater, in its first London production in nearly 100 years.
|
|
You could even find WASPish African-Americans: The oldest summer colony for black Americans, and not coincidentally a place where the somewhat WASPy Barack Obama liked to hang out in the summer, sits on the shores of the WASP isle of Martha's Vineyard.
|
|
Contrasting with these images are some pleasantly absurd photographs — Wilde in Greek national costume, complete with a manly skirt; the waspish gossip Jean Lorrain as a dying warrior; and Montesquiou with his head on a platter to represent the decapitated John the Baptist.
|
|
As a girl, Sophie was mouselike and afraid, but as an old woman she's fearless and waspish, taking a palpable and contagious pleasure in addressing a 40-year-old as "young man" and scolding him for speaking to her in the wrong way.
|
|
It returns to Broadway 26 years after it didn't win (but should have) the Tony Award for best play, with a cast that includes Allison Janney (back onstage after many Emmy-collecting years of being winningly waspish on television) and John Benjamin Hickey.
|
|
But of course Professor Faggioli felt justified in organizing his particular militia, because he apparently felt that I had previously tried to get him fired during a waspish exchange on Twitter (it's inquisitions all the way down, I'm afraid), when I suggested that his views on the potential evolution of Catholicism might be usefully acknowledged as a heresy.
|
|
But most of its comedy stems from the effect Miri has on everyone around her, and its primary pleasure comes from its gallery of supporting performances: James as Miri's waspish, selfish, covertly sexting mom and Richard Durden as her gruff, eco-warrior dad; Bottomley, echoing the prickly defensiveness of her role in "The End of the ____ing World"; and the wonderfully warm Akhtar.
|
|
A 60-year veteran of film and television, Ms. MacLaine first captivated audiences as a winsome elevator operator in the 1960 film "The Apartment"; touched hearts in "The Turning Point," about an emotional rivalry in the world of ballet; won an Oscar for "Terms of Endearment," the 1983 chronicle of a spiky mother-daughter relationship; and resurfaced more recently on "Downton Abbey" as a waspish, disconcertingly progressive American dowager, a role that reignited her career.
|
|
His prose was crisp and waspish, but balanced and well informed, and he was able to deliver an authoritative opinion on a wide range of musical events.
|
|
Vespetta the chambermaid wheedles her way into marrying her employer, old Pimpinone. Once married she shows her waspish nature (the name Vespetta means "little wasp") and completely dominates her husband.
|
|
A fine comic actor, he was applauded as an Ugly Sister in Cinderella and as a particularly waspish Widow Simone in La Fille Mal Gardée.Anonymous, "Brian Shaw Is Dead, British Dancer, 63, Known as Classicist," obituary, International New York Times, 23 April 1992.
|
|
Carlotta arrives. Hilde introduces herself and leaves Carlotta alone with Hugo. Their reminiscences of old times together mix sentimental and waspish memories. The atmosphere becomes tense when Carlotta asks for Hugo's permission to reproduce some of his love letters to her in her forthcoming memoirs.
|
|
Simon Kent of The Sun-Herald said Sarah had a "waspish tongue and sharpish put down", while Tony Squires of The Sydney Morning Herald branded her "luscious." Squires' colleague Ben Pobjie wrote that everyone remembers where they were at the time they watched Karl kiss Sarah behind Susan's back.
|
|
A very different watercolour (1835) serves to document an aspect of life on the South America station. The high-status individuals attending this Rio de Janeiro ball include the Governor General of India and the best-selling novelist Emily Eden.; . Emily Eden was Lord Auckland's "waspish but adoring" sister.
|
|
Joe Shooman of Record Collector awarded the album 4/5 and wrote "Mind Over Matter's sleazy rockabilly nightmares and Captain Beefheart-channeling psychedelic detours are entirely keeping with the group's '80s records". Uncut also rated the album 4/5 and said "This Terrific follow-up is even better, the quartet unloading a clamorous set of songs full of pique, provocation and waspish humour".
|
|
During spring the flowers, mushrooms, and trees do their calisthenics. Some trees play a tune, using vines for harp strings and a chorus of robins. A fight breaks out between a waspish-looking hollow tree and a younger, healthier tree for the attention of a female tree. The young tree emerges victorious, but the hollow tree retaliates by starting a fire.
|
|
Critic Herbert Livingston described Four Anniversaries: > The first written with restraint and cultivated lyricism, is serene and > song-like. There follows a short waspish scherzo, interesting principally > for the rhythmic surprises; a slow elegiac piece freely contrapuntal in > structure: and a vigorous finale, also predominately contrapuntal, involving > sudden extreme dynamic changes.Livingston, Herbert, “Reviewed Work(s): Four > Anniversaries by Leonard Bernstein,” Notes, 2nd Ser., Vol.
|
|
The Letters of Alexander Woollcott. N.Y., Viking, 1944. His letters also reveal a warm and generous heart and a self-effacing manner distinct from his waspish public persona, and his many lasting and close friendships with the theatrical and literary elite of his day. Woollcott was friends with actress Katharine Cornell, and it was he who bestowed the moniker "First Lady of the Theatre" upon her.
|
|
Maurice Bowra was warden of the college from 1938 until 1970, and was influential in determining the character of the college as open and meritocratic. He was known for his hospitality but also for his waspish wit, and anecdotes about his time as Warden remain in circulation amongst Wadham alumni. A statue of Bowra is in the college gardens, and the college's 1992 Bowra Building bears his name.
|
|
Off- screen, Thring was known for his flamboyant, often waspish, persona. He was featured in numerous TV commercials and guest-starring roles on popular weekly series, variety programs and quiz shows, often dressed in black funereal attire and other sinister costumes. However, his acting career was interrupted by bouts of alcoholism and periods of ill health. The interior of his house was featured in an Australian TV program and the walls were also black.
|
|
Jack Diamond, played by Alistair Brammer, made his first appearance during the thirtieth series. Jack was a receptionist, who formed a friendship with receptionist Noel Garcia (Tony Marshall). The character was first previewed in the 2015 autumn trailer, which was released on 18 September 2015, where a receptionist character called Jack was revealed. Brammer's casting was announced by executive producer Oliver Kent in an interview with Radio Times, where he billed Jack as "flamboyant and outrageous and waspish".
|
|
With financial help from her white, waspish grandmother, Penelope Lodge, Birdie flies to San Francisco. In San Francisco, she breaks into Deck's home before he arrives. Upon their reunion, Birdie finds out he lives alone and although he professes to be glad to see Birdie again, he is emotionally distant. When the topic of Sandy is broached, he alludes to her flight from the FBI, confirming Birdie's suspicions that Sandy was in little, if any, danger of being pursued by COINTELPRO.
|
|
The Economist described the book as an "entertaining and informative account" of addiction, although written in a "waspish" style which it considered to understate the seriousness of the issue. ConservativeHome viewed it as an "eye-opening, iconoclastic analysis" of contemporary addiction. In Wired UK, Milo Yiannopoulos felt its perception of a disparity between the evolutionary status quo of human beings and the overwhelming world in which they live was presented with "gentle but terrifyingly persuasive regularity". The book provoked a dispute between Thompson and The Guardian's Tanya Gold, a recovering alcoholic.
|
|
Robson has been the subject of a number of unfavourable media reports and controversies. A number of critical descriptions of Robson have been dismissed by her or her representatives as distortions or fabrications by rival journalists. In particular, when The Daily Telegraph alleged that other reporters called her a "princess" overly concerned with her appearance, Robson herself denied the allegations. When The Australian Alt URL cited a source describing her as a "cold, waspish, punishment-oriented, dominatrix", Today Tonight producer Neil Mooney described the story as "attempted character assassination ... based on fiction".
|
|
Though he published a paean to bachelorhood (The Bachelor Life, 1941), Nathan had a reputation as a ladies' man and was not averse to dating women working in the theater. The character of Addison De Witt, the waspish theater critic who squires a starlet (played by a then- unknown Marilyn Monroe) in the 1950 film All About Eve was based on Nathan. He had a romantic relationship with actress Lillian Gish, beginning in the late 1920s and lasting almost a decade. Gish repeatedly refused his proposals of marriage.
|
|
Dunne, the second of six children, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Dorothy Frances (née Burns) and Richard Edwin Dunne, a hospital chief of staff and prominent heart surgeon. His Irish Catholic family was wealthy; his maternal grandfather, Dominick Francis Burns, founded the Park Street Trust Company. However, from his earliest days, Dunne recalled feeling like an outsider in the predominantly "WASPish" West Hartford. He was the older brother of writer John Gregory Dunne; they had two sisters, Harriet and Virginia, and two brothers, Richard Jr. and Stephen.
|
|
The premiere was the only performance for 74 years, as the audience jeered it and the critics upbraided it for its un-Soviet intentions. Along with his other ballets The Limpid Stream and The Golden Age, the work was banned by the authorities after Shostakovich's first denunciation in 1936. He subsequently put parts of it in his other music. > The waspish and delightfully colourful score bowls along like a children’s > cartoon-film, every number full of drama and parody and fine take-offs of > serious and popular music of every kind.
|
|
His capacity for hard work revealed that he was also stubborn, short-tempered, with a choleric temperament; a stickler for the letter of the law.Kendle, p. 21. He was frequently plagued by ill-health: neuralgia, arthritis, susceptible to colds and flu; a waspish character, he was not charismatic, nor was he analytic or probing, like his mentor Balfour. In this role, he was criticised as too radical for his support of the Unemployed Workmen's Act 1905, which created an unemployment board to give work and training to the unemployed.
|
|
Later that decade she became one of only very few journalists to win the trust of the SPD's famously waspish (in public) Herbert Wehner. For her first interview with him, during the early 1950s, she was summoned to his apartment early one Sunday morning. As he opened the door to her he put his finger to his lips: there were two men asleep on camp beds in the hallway. When they had crept through to his study Wehner explained that the men were two East German escapees who had turned up exhausted at his front door the previous evening.
|
|
Catherine Shoard, however, pointed out that "critics' opinions are subjective, and are supposed to be," but also noted her dismay for Long's "struggle to feel for those who aren't like you." Moreover, David McAlmont referred to Long's review as "not a review ... [but] a waspish response to other reviews." Richard Brody of The New Yorker included Moonlight in his list of the best 27 films of the decade. On a list of top ten lists of the decade on Metacritic, it was tied for most second most number ones and second on overall mentions of lists of top ten films of the decade.
|
|
The novel follows four dissimilar women in 1920s England who leave their rainy, grey environments to go on holiday in Italy. Mrs Arbuthnot and Mrs Wilkins, who belong to the same ladies' club but have never spoken, become acquainted after reading a newspaper advertisement for a small medieval castle on the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April. They find some common ground in that both are struggling to make the best of unhappy marriages. They also reluctantly take on the waspish, elderly Mrs Fisher and the stunning but aloof Lady Caroline Dester to defray expenses.
|
|
Her letters explored London, the colonies, and the high seas. Prudence Hannay argues that armed with "strong feelings and a forthright outlook on life, acute powers of observation and a gift of beautifully translating into words the sense of the ridiculous", she devoted her life to writing.Prudence Hannay, "Emily Eden as a Letter-Writer," History Today (1971) 21#7 pp 491-501. In a 2013 history of her brother's term as Governor General in India, Emily Eden is described as a "waspish but adoring" sister, whose diary was to become one of the most celebrated travel accounts of the period.
|
|
Peter Cushing's Holmes received good reviews at the time, with Films and Filming calling him an "impish, waspish, Wilde-ian Holmes", while the New York Herald Tribune stated "Peter Cushing is a forceful and eager Sherlock Holmes". André Morell's Watson has been praised for his far more accurate rendition of the character as envisioned by Arthur Conan Doyle, as opposed to the comical buffoon created by Nigel Bruce. A negative review in the Monthly Film Bulletin stated that "any freshly entertaining possibilities in this much-filmed story have here been lost in a welter of blood, love interest and mood music". The review also noted unimaginative staging and direction and "dull performances".
|
|
Networking in Purgatory is the third album by Australian folk-rock band Ned Collette + Wirewalker, released in 2014. Writing in The Quietus, reviewer Kate Hennessy praised the album as "very good, even exceptional". She described Collette's voice as "sibilant, astringent and at times vaguely waspish ... a voice that alchemises its flaws into powerful strengths, sitting neither above nor below the mix but slicing through it in both directions, reminiscent of the Brians (Eno and Ferry) and the Davids (Byrne and Bowie)". She noted of its lyrics that Collette's "bitterness runs cold and constant even beneath songs that, sonically, express a kind of genial largesse, a contradiction that is this record's most brilliant aspect".
|
|
Dynastic relations between the Saxon royal family and the Habsburgs were once again strained when Franz Ferdinand chose to marry (morganatically) Sophie Chotek, Countess Chotek of Wognin. (Relations between the two nations improved only when Mathilde's younger sister Maria Josepha married her second cousin, Archduke Otto Francis.) Mathilde became embittered by these rejections and turned critical and waspish; she also turned to alcohol to ease her unhappiness, acquiring the nickname "Schnapps-Mathilde" for obvious reasons. She made life difficult for other members of the royal family, and as a consequence was the least popular of the family by a wide margin among the people of Saxony. She was a talented painter and took lessons from the artist Alfred Diethe from 1890 to 1901.
|
|
The diarist John Evelyn made the following characteristically waspish entry for 16 March 1683 > "I went to see Sir Josiah Child's prodigious cost in planting of walnut > trees about his seat and making fishponds many miles in circuit in Epping > Forest in a barren spot as commonly these overgrown and suddenly monied men > for the most part seat themselves. He from an ordinary merchant's apprentice > & management of the East India Company's common stock being arrived to an > estate ('tis said) of £200,000 and lately married his daughter to the eldest > son of the Duke of Beaufort, late Marquis of Worcester, with £30,000 (some > versions £50,000) portion at present, & various expectations. This merchant > most sordidly avaricious etc."The Diary of John Evelyn, ed.
|
|
Born in Southampton, Hampshire, Blatch trained at The Questors Student Group Course, finishing in 1958, and performed with the Questors for some years afterwards. She spent some years in repertory, working with directors such as Sam Walters, David Scase, David Thacker and Phyllida Lloyd. Her performances attracted positive reviews ("Miss Blatch .. is capable of an extraordinary tranquillity of both voice and manner, against which slight nuances of intonation or expression register with great effect"; "Helen Blatch captures perfectly the fragility and neuroses of the regressing morphine addict living in a dream of the past"; "Helen Blatch is strong and striking ... Her wit is waspish, her frailty acute, her quest for affection chilling.") She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1989, and, in her first season there, was described by one reviewer as "a find".
|
|
It Started in Paradise is a 1952 British drama film, directed by Compton Bennett and starring Jane Hylton, Martita Hunt and Muriel Pavlow. Set in the world of haute couture, the film was squarely aimed at female audiences. Its storyline of an established master of her craft being usurped by a younger, ruthlessly ambitious underling, who then years later finds the same thing happening to her - with a waspish male critic on hand throughout to provide a steady stream of acerbic, biting commentary - led inevitably to the film being dubbed the All About Eve of the fashion world. It Started in Paradise was shot in Technicolor and is described by Hal Erickson of Allmovie as: "an unusually plush, Lana Turner-esque production to come from a British studio in the early 1950s".
|
|
Sullivan, p. 245 He later wrote in his diary, "heartbreaking to have to try to make a musical piece out of such badly constructed (for music) mess of involved sentences".Sullivan, p, 246 The musical analyst William Parry describes the libretto as "a verbose mess ... suffused with a fussy air of arch medievalism".Parry (2009), p. 31 At its premiere, on 28 May 1898, the piece ran for four hours, and Pinero and Carr had to accept some drastic cuts to their words, which also meant sacrificing some of Sullivan's best music.Parry 2013, p. 24 The reviews for the music ranged from polite to enthusiastic; for the libretto they ranged from polite to damning. Max Beerbohm, who had succeeded Shaw as theatre critic of The Saturday Review and who was to become a persistent irritant to Pinero, was particularly waspish.
|
|
It was traditional for its preface to be written anonymously and to take a slightly waspish, if detached and amused, look at events in the church since the previous edition. Bennett was asked to write the preface for the 1988 edition of the directory, which was published on 3 December 1987. Bennett consciously took a different tack on the article and wrote a carefully constructed demolition of the hierarchy of the Church of England from a conservative viewpoint, which he himself described as "wicked". In it Bennett excoriated what he perceived as an intolerant liberal elite in the church, headed by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, a process which he felt would follow a trail already blazed by the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and would lead inexorably to a steep decline in the fortunes of the church.
|
|
In addition to the Chicas, Divito included in Rico Tipo a whole series of characters that portrayed aspects recognizable to the average citizen: Pochita Morfoni, an obese woman who only thinks about food; Fulmine, an ugly man dressed in black who brings bad luck and misfortune; Fallutelli, prototype sycophantic employee and traitor to his fellows; Bombolo, a fat good-natured and naive man who cannot understand figurative speech and always take things literally; Gracielita, a very modern, waspish girl. The most important character was Dr. Merengue, whom Pablo de Santis in his book Rico Tipo y las Chicas de Divito called "a sort of criollo Mr. Hyde". Dr Merengue behaved as required by the more conservative social conventions: serious, formal, fair, accurate and dispassionate, never losing his composure. But in the last square of the strip, his alter ego revealed his true feelings or thoughts.
|
|
Thom Gunn wrote of the poems in his first collection: 'I admired them especially for their technical virtuosity, in that it was technique completely used, never for the sake of cleverness but as a component of feeling... taken together, they constitute a handbook of desire; separately, each is an exquisite insight, rapid and rich. The predominant tone is of a kind of delighted astonishment that mere sensuality can be so meaningful.' Woods' subject matter is by no means limited to gay themes and his work is characterised by classical and literary allusions, a dry scepticism and waspish humour. In the Times Literary Supplement (16 October 1992), Neil Powell wrote, 'The overwhelming impression of We Have the Melon remains that of frankly sexual joyousness matched by serious literary intelligence, a rare combination and a reassuring one.' Also in the Times Literary Supplement (9 December 2016), Paul Batchelor wrote: 'A poet of tremendous facility and feeling, Gregory Woods has a way of making the formal challenges he sets himself look easy.
|
|
At the beginning of the first series, we are introduced to the main characters, a group of mostly female and middle-aged canteen workers at a factory, set in the Greater Manchester area, North West England: the main character is the kind and dependable Brenda 'Bren' Furlong (played by Victoria Wood), whose relationship with sarcastic and exhausted canteen manager Tony Martin (Andrew Dunn) develops through the show. The prim and prudish Dolly Bellfield (Thelma Barlow) and her waspish friend Jean (Anne Reid) are also featured, as well as the younger pair of the snarky Twinkle (Maxine Peake), who is always late, and the ditzy but mild-mannered Anita (Shobna Gulati). Stan Meadowcroft (Duncan Preston) is an opinionated and easily provoked (but well-meaning) maintenance man who is responsible for cleaning the factory and fixing equipment. The new cheery but disorganised human resources manager Philippa Moorcroft (Celia Imrie) is from the South and initially doesn't fit in well with the rest of the staff; she moved to Manchester because of her relationship with senior member of staff Mr Michael (Christopher Greet).
|
|