In his early age, Nhu was a quiet and bookish individual who showed little inclination towards the political path taken by his elder brothers.

A few of his prophecies are bookish, such as when he knows that Baithene ’ s psalter is missing one letter “ I ” or when he prophecies that an eager man will knock over his inkhorn and spill the ink.

He was portrayed as ' bookish ', although a sweet and sincere man otherwise.

According to Lorna Jowett, Jenny Calendar — and later, Olivia ( Phina Oruche )— serves to assure viewers that Giles, despite being a bookish man who spends most of his time with adolescents, is heterosexual and has no sexual interest in the teenage characters.

Roger was a quiet, studious, bookish man and a devout Roman Catholic while his wife was an accomplished sexual athlete and a woman who her later lover, Charles II himself, is recorded by Pepys on 15 May 1663 as having claimed that " she hath all the tricks of Aretin that are to be practised to give pleasure ".

Hamton's role in the series is as a straight man ( much like Porky in some of his pairings with Daffy Duck ), with his personality dominated by tendencies toward being bookish and obsessively neat.

Lane is described as a bookish, bespectacled man.

He is described as an intelligent, brooding man who was initially very bookish.

William was a bookish man, once tutored by the poet Samuel Daniel, and preferred to keep to his study with heavy pipe-smoking to keep his " migraines " at bay.

One of Erin's lovestruck fans, a bookish man named Jerry Killian, recognizes Dilbeck from the club, and tries to blackmail the Congressman into influencing the judge in Erin's favor.

One of his postcards, featuring a bookish man and an embarrassed pretty woman sitting under a tree, with the caption: " Do you like Kipling?

Ricœur, whose penchant for study was fueled by his family's Protestant emphasis on Bible study, was bookish and intellectually precocious.

The Madonna ( 1532 ) in the Modena Gallery is a charming picture ; however, the large Triumph of Religion in the Atheneum at Ferrara has been described as a " bookish " affair, whose episodes are difficult to elucidate.

Willow is presented as a bookish nerd with considerable computer skills, dowdily dressed and easily intimidated by more popular girls in school.

Every Covenant will have a respectable library, since the magical tradition of the Order of Hermes is a bookish one.

Hal is wary about going to the picnic, but Alan nudges him into it, saying Hal's " date " for the picnic will be Madge's bookish younger sister Millie ( Susan Strasberg ), who is quickly drawn to Hal's cheerful demeanor and charisma.

It is noted that, while they are indeed reading glasses, Bemis wears them the entire episode to make him look more bookish.

One of the points of harmony is, however, too subtle for us to believe that a forger evolved it from the works of Persius: the Life gives the impression of a " bookish " youth, who never strayed far from home and family.

* On Marriage: Muses on why a bookish life is a poor preparation for marriage.

* Stanley " Stan " Uris: Also known as " Stan the Man ", Stan is a skeptical, bookish Jewish member of the club.

Her husband, the bookish Professor Crandall, is usually occupied in his study and generally takes no interest in administrative affairs.

Set mainly in New York City and Washington DC, the film is about a bookish CIA researcher who discovers all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out whom he can really trust.

Amanda is 32, an introspective and bookish woman ; her aunts are determined to see her married, though each has a different candidate for husband.

His punishment is mandatory participation in various after-school activities, such as the drama club, where he is forced to interact with quiet, kind and bookish Jamie Sullivan ( Mandy Moore ), a girl he has known for many years but to whom he has rarely ever spoken.

Hank is the more adventurous and Dean the more timid and bookish of the two.

Unlike the writers of previous generartion Sayeed, Shahid, Danish iqbal and Zaheer do not write bookish Plays but their work is a product of vigorous performing tradition.

The book recounts all the many episodes one expects from adventure literature: trouble at home, imagining a better life elsewhere, the struggle to find that life, disillusionment with certain hard facts that rub against bookish fancies, and the return, a state of mind where the author is more mature and more in touch with reality.

It is not known where Bonnet received his education, but many who knew him described him as bookish, and Judge Nicholas Trott alluded to Bonnet's liberal education when sentencing him.

Often the orthography is domestic ( as opposed to bookish ), using ъ and о on the one hand and ь and е on the other synonymously ( about 50 % of birch-bark documents from the mid-12th to the late 14th century ).

In his early years, Nhu was aloof from politics and was regarded as a bookish and quiet personality who preferred academic pursuits.

Karel found the word too bookish and sought advice from Josef who suggested to call them " robots ".

As the series progressed it increasingly focused on comedy characters such as brassy winebar proprietor Norma Whittaker ( Sheila Kennelly ), her inventor husband Les ( Gordon McDougall ), no-nonsense Flo Patterson ( Bunney Brooke ), and the bookish Arnold Feather ( Jeff Kevin ), who proved irresistible to the ladies.

Elizabeth ’ s friend Charlotte, who fancies Gradus for herself, persuades Gradus to act more fashionable and less bookish so that he can win Elizabeth ’ s heart.

He preferred bookish pursuits from a young age and was not enamoured of sport, and by the age of eight was old enough to analyse his father's character ; Mac disapproved of Frank and saw him as a hypocrite who espoused moral principles and put on a facade of uprightedness, while associating with businessmen of dubious ethics.

He was a " bookish, introspective child who, despite his intelligence, was never able to win approval from his demanding father " who was known to belittle his achievements.

Eastman's biographer, John Patrick Diggins, noted that it was ironic that Herrmann was cast as Eastman, who was known for his good looks, while the handsome Beatty portrayed Reed, who had a bookish appearance.

It has often been mocked: Terry Castle says that " like many bookish lesbians I seem to have spent much of my adult life making jokes about it ", and Mary Renault, who read it in 1938, remembered laughing at its " earnest humourlessness " and " impermissible allowance of self-pity ".

It is the tale of a young Greek intellectual who ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious Alexis Zorba.

Vera Flood-( Frances White )-The senior secretary who comes across as prim and bookish but has secretly written a romance novel using a pseudonym.

In the opening scene, the protagonist of the film, a bookish college professor, explains the history and meaning of the term to a pair of loudly arguing sports fans on a commuter train, and draws an admiring look from an attractive Asian woman who is a fellow passenger.

Aeschylus had written his own epitaph commemorating his life as a warrior fighting for Athens against Persia, without any mention of his success as a playwright, and Sophocles was celebrated by his contemporaries for his social gifts and contributions to public life as a state official, but there are no records of Euripides's public life except as a dramatisthe could well have been " a brooding and bookish recluse ".