mandarin collar

Example Sentences

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I do, if the word dramatic is to be used in the mandarinic signification.

From The Author's Craft by Bennett, Arnold

The first business of any writer, and especially of any critical writer, is not to be mandarinic and tedious, and these lecturers have not yet learnt that first business.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold

For the supreme convention of life on the mandarinic plane is that the shoe never pinches.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold

It will come down because it is ridiculous, and no mandarinic efforts can keep it up.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold