fustian

Example Sentences

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And in due course, too, some lovely portrayals take fuller shape, of the adult students in the school and of the family of their headmaster, Hugh, played with authentically fustian authority by Bradley Armacost.

From Washington Post

Still, his description of Rawabi as “an extrusion in stone and glass . . . inhabitable scat deposited by capital on its way to a goal that excluded nearly everyone” is overly indignant and comically fustian.

From Los Angeles Times

"It rather depends whether you're clad in the fustian of Victorian habit or you embrace the common ground with our European cousins," he says.

From BBC

Even with an Oscar nomination for Zero Dark Thirty, she has been unable to sustain sales for the fustian costume drama The Heiress – and the Downton Abbey star Dan Stevens hasn't made up the difference.

From The Guardian

Mantel uses her own words – there is no fustian in the prose – yet all the observations are her character's.

From The Guardian