| He was a narrow, stumbling man, a clothes merchant by trade, whose clerkish character leaned towards the fastidious and wary. |
| Why, oh why, had he not found and taken to himself that clerkish desk-job far in the rear which he could have had? |
| Here I am looking into the worst fears realised in those clerkish eyes. |
| They improved the lives of millions of people who looked at my friend and saw no more than a clerkish fellow in a bow tie. |
| Mullan's own performance as John's drunken, abject father – ineffectually bellowing from behind clerkish spectacles – is poignant, but nearly unbalances the film's delicate economy. |
| The guards are very big, being at least nine feet tall, making the eight-foot Callais look clerkish. |
