| The tweedy figure from an age of patrician Toryism must be an image-maker's worst nightmare. |
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| It all set a tone of exclusivity and privilege, an air of refinement reserved for corporate leaders and tweedy intellectuals. |
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| He plays it straight as the tweedy teacher's assistant who lusts after the same girl as the studly Meyer. |
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| The men's dorms are decorated in virile earth tones and the rugged wood and tweedy furniture gives you the feeling of being in a hunting lodge. |
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| She had a black floral scarf wrapped around her head, a tan, tweedy skirt, and a purple sweater made of cheap, static material. |
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| She was wearing a plain tweedy suit with a simple square pendant of some purple gem. |
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| This is basically a voluminous, trapeze-cut jacket in a tweedy fabric, with kimono-shaped sleeves. |
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| In the living room, a tweedy wing chair and an antique chair join a plan denim sofa. |
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| Stick on a pair of wellies with a tweedy number and you can muck out stables, walk the dog or dig the garden. |
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| When Iain turned up to meet me for the first time, he was wearing these odd, tweedy clothes and had long hair, which was very uncool for the era. |
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| He is a trim, nice-looking 72-year-old wearing a tweedy jacket and spiffy tasselled loafers. |
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| Pass him on the street, and the first impression would be tweedy intellectual. |
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| He has that old-fashioned chivalry that makes him wear a shirt and tie, and his tweedy jacket reminds me of one my dad used to wear. |
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| But she left the apartment in tweedy jackets with big shoulder pads and blue eye shadow. |
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| Oh yes, the great, the double-barrelled and the weak chinned were all there in their green tweedy finery. |
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| His rather musty, tweedy jacket made him look oddly like a careers adviser. |
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| Around the sides of the room are tweedy chairs, at the top is a long table. |
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| He was the picture of the tweedy, eccentric professor, bookish and reclusive. |
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| A child psychiatrist and the medical director of the CD-CP, he is tweedy and bearlike, with curly brown hair and a salt-and-pepper beard. |
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| He's an unlikely rebel, a tweedy biology professor who's found himself at the center of one of the year's most ferocious debates. |
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| And there was the same guy sitting out in front of the library, chatting to some other tweedy academic type. |
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| I imagined him to be a tweedy 40-year-old, steeped in Africana lore and smelling of cigar smoke. |
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| This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip. |
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| The interior is a lot lighter than in traditional Spanish homes, and English touches such as tweedy armchairs and swagged curtains make it feel homey. |
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| Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air. |
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| It is a shabby and disrespectful epitaph for the tweedy old Bernard Quatermass and his adventures, which date back almost to the advent of television. |
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| Though he works for a fictional firm, the stature and trappings are old school, and his cohort of young associates all have the scrubbed and tweedy Harvard look about them. |
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| Never wear a matching two-piece tweed suit, but break it up by putting on a pair of baggy, mannish trousers or jeans with a pretty, shrunken, tweedy jacket. |
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| Has it got anything to do with fishing being a rural, quarry sport, too closely associated, often erroneously, with tweedy people who shoot things? |
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| Do you see that guy over there with the bad haircut in the tweedy jacket? |
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| The look has been dubbed kinfolk man, and comes with tweedy jackets or wrinkly linen trousers rolled up at the hems and drab haircuts. |
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| First up, there's the Park Lane package for the regular Cooper which adds an elegant, tweedy British twist. |
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| Over lunch at Mory's, Yale's tweedy private dining club, he suggests that academics underrate the President because they overvalue specialized knowledge. |
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| All bundled up as if was expecting cold weather, he was wearing a long, tweedy coat, a bunch of scarves twisted around his head so you could hardly see his face. |
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| He is studious and tweedy and not given to showing his emotions. |
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| Steering clear of Northwestern University's tweedy English department, he graduated in 1937 in anthropology and sociology and later went to work for the Encyclopedia Britannica. |
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| We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons. |
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| I love the colour, but I thought it might be too tweedy for a bedroom. |
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| Mélange colours produce increased intensity with a tweedy texture to any design and combined with a matching solid Rayon colour the most marvelous and elegant colour combinations emerge. |
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| Chinless, upper-class twerps in dinner jackets supped champagne and brayed in a ruling class sort of way alongside tweedy ladies wearing horn-rimmed specs. |
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| When police barred his access to it, he took a picture, for no conscious reason, of an elderly man on a bench, a doleful, tweedy person with a walrus mustache. |
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