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Shakespearean
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has been declared "a Shakespearean fool, the only one who can say what others can't" and "an antidote to the proliferation of neo-Nazi movements which took hold of Hungary and Greece".
(2) Finally, the Janssen portrait had, it was shown during conservation work in 1988, been painted over to make the sitter look balder, and more "Shakespearean".
(3) Like all good Shakespearean tragedies, the Trump presidency is presaging its own collapse at the height of its glory.
(4) Just as Mary was partly motivated by Byron and her husband, the poet Shelley, so Bram Stoker, the business manager for the Lyceum theatre, was inspired by his devoted service to the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving.
(5) The weather had Shakespearean timing but this was a tempest not just for the police, whose militarised response affronted worldwide opinion, or their political masters, but for local and national black leaders.
(6) Like the late Hughes, there are many former comrades of the Sinn Féin chief who have begged to differ and who have said that, to continue the Shakespearean theme, the IRA without Adams would be like Hamlet without its prince.
(7) This was not to say that a man who became one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of all time always found speaking verse easy.
(8) Betrayal by people close to you, betrayal by the people you thought you could trust.” Asked what he would say if he did have a conversation with Wayne Swan, Rudd says simply, “Betrayal hurts, mate.” Character assassinations, assaults on reputations, betrayal of the deepest form, set amid national and global crises: it’s Machiavellian, Shakespearean and feels completely un-Australian, but maybe my love for the Aussie sporting mindset has made me naive and romantic about the country as a whole.
(9) His stage work included two memorable Shakespearean kings – Leontes in The Winter’s Tale at the National Theatre in 1988, and Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2011 – and one quasi-Shakespearean ruler: a future King Charles III in Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse fantasy about the succession to the throne of the current Prince of Wales.
(10) In a situation of Shakespearean complexity, Kinnock was struggling with his own deeply held convictions as well as those of his party.
(11) Eventually they switched to sketches, including a nude balloon dance and a Shakespearean skit that Hardee had written in Ford open prison.
(12) After eight years of George W Bush – who, in comparison to the Potus in the pipeline, now seems a wit of Shakespearean scale – it has been a great relief for many American expats to feel proud of their president again: “Hey, that hip, sidling, intelligent guy at the podium?
(13) His savage truncations of Shakespearean English I particularly relished tags such as: 'Whatever you forget about tonight's programme remember this' his fantastical nomenclature last week's show included a slaughter man called 'Gypsum Fantastic' his subversion of the apparent logic of television graphics a bogus diagram featuring the heads of dead foxes and his own crazed demonism on screen a brilliant character actor acting the part of a brilliant character actor all of it testifies to the fact that this man is a true television artist perhaps the only one currently at work.
(14) His astonishing Charles III was crucially not an impression, but a complex characterisation: sampling some of the Prince of Wales’s vocal and gestural mannerisms, but bringing all of the actor’s Shakespearean experience to imagining the psychology of a man who had waited more than 70 years for a job.
(15) This captures the strangely vivid yet fleeting nature of dreams with uncanny, magical precision and Prunella Scales offers a beautiful delivery of a famous Shakespearean text.
(16) The RSC's mini-season of three "shipwreck plays" – Comedy of Errors , Twelfth Night and The Tempest – illuminates this most potent of Shakespearean themes .
(17) Ex-Downton villain Iain Glen, boomingly Shakespearean, is her hale and true bondsman Ser Jorah Mormont.
(18) Via elaborate Shakespearean staging he slaughters, one by one, all the drama critics who did him wrong, quoting the bard’s soliloquies as he goes about his bloody business.
(19) From the look of the trailer, Branagh does not seem to have brought any of the verve and poise he delivered for the excellent, cod-Shakespearean Marvel comic book movie Thor .
(20) Certainly, there is something of a Shakespearean tragedy in what has happened to the Chagossian islanders since they were evicted from their homes to make way for the US military base on Diego Garcia nearly 40 years ago.