| She was taken to an orphanage with Dickensian conditions, where children were cleaned and fed but given no love or affection. |
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| Scorsese recreates New York of 150 years ago, which looks and feels like a vintage, bleak Dickensian landscape, only more depressing. |
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| His calling card introduces this top-hatted Dickensian figure as Jerry Sadowitz, Comedy, Magic, Filth. |
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| Fagin, Sykes and Dodger use much more Dickensian language and pepper their sentences with thieves' cant. |
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| I was suddenly transported back to a Dickensian world of Fagin and footpads. |
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| The workers sit at desks in long, Dickensian school rooms listening to novels read aloud from a dais. |
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| Later, Wolfe became a novelist himself, to show his peers how Dickensian social realism should be done. |
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| Duveen emerges as a character of almost Dickensian richness and idiosyncrasy. |
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| It is Ruskin's contention that the essential Dickensian hero is the ironmaster. |
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| Then there were the wars and depressions, the material privations, Dickensian working conditions and relatively short life expectancies. |
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| Imagine someone writing a Dickensian novel, in nineteenth-century prose, about a latchkey kid on Ritalin. |
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| My even stronger suspicion is that the better established model of social-problem novel, in the Dickensian tradition, is still alive and kicking. |
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| Composed with Dickensian vigour, it is a social comedy packaged with considerable charm. |
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| Fresh of face and louche of manner, they are equal parts Dickensian urchins and Wildean dandies. |
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| Jade handed Twigg a dossier of the Dickensian conditions, including a flooded library, mouldy walls, and twisted and broken window frames. |
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| This is not a romantic, Dickensian look at a saintly consumptive young woman. |
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| Superficially, his novel resembles those grand Dickensian and Balzacian novels of sudden social rise or fall. |
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| He's a wonderfully large Dickensian character, offering low-key winks and smiles. |
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| Take your pick from carol concerts with seasonal readings, Christmas revues, Dickensian productions of A Christmas Carol and Victorian music hall. |
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| Evans's hard-luck story is a timeless tear-jerker with a Dickensian sense of pathos. |
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| Before you run outside disguised as a proper noun, or convert your blog style to baroque Dickensian, let's consider what is at stake. |
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| The retail side of his trade, however, presented much more of a Dickensian jumble with seal rings, English china, snuff boxes, and walking sticks. |
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| Much as I'm a fan of Victoriana, I draw the line at Dickensian chops. |
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| What is the point of earning a high return in China if my money is helping to build Dickensian working conditions? |
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| The EU must not be Dickensian in its approach to the way in which we approach trade. |
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| The working arrangements for junior doctors are like a horror story from a Dickensian novel of the nineteenth century. |
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| Your portrayal of the desperation of these children who've been abandoned and betrayed by adults is almost Dickensian. |
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| David Lean creates a vivid sense of place and atmosphere and fills it with a colorful cast of Dickensian folk. |
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| After passing through many hands it reached E. S. Williamson, grandson of a celebrated Dickensian lecturer. |
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| The installation that resulted was something of a Dickensian curiosity shop. |
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| There is no limit to the theme and style we can create, from traditional Dickensian Christmas to modern contemporary. |
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| Speaking with a Dickensian cockney brogue is pushing things a bit. |
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| It doesn't mean that they are snarling, Dickensian pantomime villains. |
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| I am in London, the city of Dickensian pickpockets, after all. |
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| Through Dickensian allusions, including tumbledown cottages, characters with aptronymic names, and surprising turns of fortune, Umansky tells a tongue-in-cheek Victorian tale. |
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| Ossie Kilkenny, U2's accountant, comes in for a similar beating, having tried to get the author to sign a management contract of Dickensian onerousness. |
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| Step back in time to see the best and worst of Dickensian England. |
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| An experiment in biography, rather less successful than Symons' Corvine, on a par perhaps with Ackroyd's Dickensian direct address strategems. |
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| In examining the state child-care system in Ireland, the series brought to light a Dickensian network of reformatories and residential schools for poor, neglected and abandoned children known as industrial schools. |
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| Landis's Trading Places is Dickensian in spirit and Shavian in form. |
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| It is, to use a Dickensian word, their snugness. |
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| As though in expiation of their sires' wealth, schoolboys often had to live in conditions that would have disgraced a Dickensian workhouse. |
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| There's the crooked, Dickensian nose, the hint of an overbite, the piss-taking grin. |
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| But Marlen did not want to show me anything else. He had no wish to sell his work, despite his illness and despite his living conditions which could only be described as Dickensian squalor. |
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| Whilst it has none of the moralistic excesses of the Dickensian tale, our SCROOGE still manages to explain all of this to us, and of the great responsibility that our being in the world involves. |
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| Along the way, National Review brought aboard a galaxy of colorful characters, some of them little known, some Dickensian and even Dostoyevskian. |
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| A novel with no stolen painting, no inexplicable theft and unlikely explosion, no shoot-outs, no sudden deaths and fatal abandonments, and fewer Dickensian or Nesbittian shops. |
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| True, Larry is a waif from a cats' home in Battersea, lending the affair a Dickensian flavour that will appeal to the Conservatives' mill-owning tendency, but Tories are natural dog owners. |
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| The details of this property summon up a Dickensian gloom. |
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| With his wispy hair and kind, boyish eyes contradicting his forehead's filigree wrinkles, all he needs is a battered top hat to make him look like a gold-hearted Dickensian goodie, a Pip of late middle age. |
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| There's also something loonily Dickensian about the sufferings of young Lilya and her only true friend, a boy two years her junior named Volodya. |
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| It's grand stuff: Tolkienian in scale, Dickensian in execution. |
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| And to disprove the idea that there can't be more than one shade of black comes the Dickensian Volume, a set of 10 deceivingly dark and metallic shades by the indie nail polish line StrangeBeautiful. |
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| By and large he admired his adoptive land, but for one thing: the British would never complain about their dreadful food, but soldiered on, inured to suffering by wartime austerity and Dickensian public schools. |
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| The Yangzi is a torrent of instant-noodle pots, sewage and the occasional corpse. Grimmest of all are the Dickensian towns that will soon be submerged, at least in part. |
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| It is ironic on the eve of the millennium that we are discussing the working conditions of doctors who are working in what could only be described as Dickensian situations. |
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| The term Dickensian is used to describe something that is reminiscent of Dickens and his writings, such as poor social conditions or comically repulsive characters. |
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| Neither newbie or knowbie, I count myself among the silver surfers, those geezers in Dickensian nightshirts who preceded the blogging guys in pajamas. |
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| Till Benjamin, no theorist had thought to borrow the Balzacian and Dickensian technique of bringing an era to life through attention to its most minute cultural details. |
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| The look combines two disparate classes of the dickensian world, shown in unison to cool effect. |
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| We locked the gate behind us, opening it only to use the bathroom in the dickensian Fire Station across the street. |
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