| Chekhov wrote The Steppe, appropriately the first tale in this volume, when he was 28, and it is a kind of manifesto of Chekhovian lifelikeness. |
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| Chekhovian memories also abound, adding cobwebs to the old manse in Ballybeg in and outside of which most of the action seethes. |
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| Deep emotion, pathos, and laughter through tears are all hallmarks of the Chekhovian oeuvre. |
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| There are Chekhovian echoes in its depiction of a way of life about to pass into oblivion. |
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| She has been called Chekhovian in that she writes the comedy of ironic twists and hidden intentions. |
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| His fiction aspired to, and often achieved, a Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos. |
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| He plays the blankly charming hero against her sinister clown with squeaking, Chekhovian shoes. |
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| So now I'm bogarting a hundred camels for my wannabe Chekhovian slices-of-life film? |
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| The result is a game of spot the allusion, with the final mass exodus dictated more by Chekhovian precedent than any kind of political logic. |
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| This last performance was hailed as one of the finest Chekhovian performances he had ever seen. |
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| Dark and poetic in tone, the Chekhovian characters of Dmitriev's stories wander from place to place in life without any real hope of change. |
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| But at the same time there is a Chekhovian side of Coward waiting to be mined. |
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| Well, not quite Chekhovian, but it that Chekhovian moment of intimacy that just sort of wafts away. |
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| He became a schoolmaster until his first West End success with a Chekhovian domestic drama about an insurance salesman incapable of fulfilling his own dreams of a better life. |
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| What a glorious film it is, Chekhovian in its wit and melancholy. |
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| On a narrow stage bathed in red light, a chair, a bottle of water and a radiator suffice for the three incredible actors to untangle the maze of Chekhovian sentiments. |
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| Olivier and his actors are able to evoke the classic Chekhovian mood from the opening and carry it through smoothly and warmly until the end. |
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| Amid the hi-res, day-glo battiness of Tim Burton's Lewis Carroll adaption, De la Tour's Chekhovian turn as Aunt Imogene felt rooted in real-world tragicomedy. |
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| There's something almost Chekhovian in the way these characters ineffectually deal with their individual failures. |
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