| But ye've need of more care than I can give ye, and I've told ye, I can't be hallooing with no monkish folk. |
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| Photographs of him make him appear dour, and he lived a monkish kind of life. |
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| For Erasmus, divine contemplation was synonymous with idleness and monkish solitude was nothing more than baneful selfishness. |
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| The broiled rouget had a similarly monkish, almost dried-out quality. |
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| And I have always despised the monkish obscurity cultivated by certain academics. |
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| The tasseled cord tie-backs give the indulgent fabric a monkish touch. |
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| Neil Jameson, its monkish director, focuses on causes uniting this colourful patchwork of London life. |
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| Despite the music coming from the food-spattered CD player, the atmosphere is monkish. |
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| This makes you, at turns, desirous of luxury and monkish asceticism, as you strike a balance between the two. |
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| Though he was never a monk, there was a monkish look about him: the balding head, the frank, kindly eyes, the life spent in rigorous discipline among ancient texts. |
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| The monkish scholars of the Dark Ages and the universities of the Middle Ages are reminders that the rushlight of learning flickered even in the most benighted periods. |
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| Donnish, monkish, and fiercely right-wing, Veryser knew and loved the Middle American Radicals like they were family. |
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| Being an economist is a good signal of the sort of honesty I am looking for to become one, you have to spend years of monkish poverty and isolation in graduate school. |
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