Despite what the funding nabobs think, the works that define our film culture to the world outside are the ones that are the most unorthodox. |
It is enough to make Agnewesque nattering nabobs of negativism proud. |
He returned to Macao, where he painted English nabobs and Chinese officials, employing Chinese assistants as copyists, and made thousands of further drawings. |
It dawned on me that all the friends I had made, all two of them, were nabobs, and both had magnanimity. |
Callers range from the imperious to the crawling, from the famous to the social climbers, from nabobs to Mafiosi. |
The result was an unholy mess, with party nabobs muttering darkly about throwing the 71-year-old peer out of the Tories altogether. |