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Sentence Examples
Barbauld's revisions constitute a methodical and quite radical intervention in authoritative Johnsonian dicta on novels and their readers.
There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.
Examples from Classical Literature
It is tempting to set this down as a Johnsonian prejudice, and to deny or retort the comparison.
In this, of course, he is following Hume, though he applies the Johnsonian argument to Berkeley's immaterialism.
The work will doubtless be received as a valuable complement to our Johnsonian literature.
The shaggy eyebrows unbent a little as he rolled the steps toward the shelf where the Johnsonian literature was placed.
He is severe in judgment and spells rigidly by the Johnsonian standard.
The manner would have been Johnsonian, if not the sentiment.
It is then that one cannot help regretting the Johnsonian black cap.
And here is yet another point of the likeness to the Johnsonian coterie.
She shows in this an almost Johnsonian confidence, but also, surely, a lack of subtlety and receptivity.
Actually, I awoke on Tuesday morning with a song in my heart, if not a Johnsonian sense of joie de vivre.
So conditions are becoming increasingly ripe for a Johnsonian cost-benefit analysis to conclude that drug prohibition needs to go the way of alcohol prohibition.
Duhig was a regular visitor to the household and office of Peter McDermott, a gregarious litterateur and founding member of Brisbane's Johnsonian Club.
