panjandrum
Example Sentences
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Roberts’ smoldering, high-beam intensity caught the attention of Joe Papp, a panjandrum of New York theater who cast Roberts in a Public Theater production of the Civil War drama “Rebel Women.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024
Last week, U.S. readers could find out a good deal more about the panjandrum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Empson became the grand panjandrum of the New Criticism, which claimed that a work of literature could best be understood by a detailed analysis of its language.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is the inventor and presiding panjandrum of two Manhattan eating places that establish him as a restaurateur-impresario sans pareil.
From Time Magazine Archive
I did not care for all this panjandrum of punctiliousness, but was, I hope, civil and chatty with everybody.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
