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“Browning is the least Chestertonian, which is not in any way to disparage it, but rather to state that the book might have been written by any biographer who knew Browning's works and had the sense to see that his characteristics were such that many of his critics were unfair to him.”
“He is the inconsistencies of science, kindly but with little joy of life, and extremely Chestertonian, which is to say unscientific.”
“Nevertheless, just as Chesterton was incapable of producing Satire in 1904, and the pathos of his invented world cast Orwell into the mythos of Tragedy in 1948, so Burgess, a kind of Chestertonian Orwell, or Orwellian Chesterton, was led into Comedy, however Black, by a taste for neat ends and neat endings.”
“She's not only a traditional Catholic and a Chestertonian but a piper with a fondness for piobaireachd.”
“He does so with no shortage of accustomed, Chestertonian wit and humor:”
“This post on immigration prompted a pair of fine, Chestertonian (in the sense of we the quiet people of England stuff) responses to which I think it's only proper that I reply.”
“I enjoy pseudo-Chestertonian rhetoric as much as the next Catholic.”
“As if drawn from a Chestertonian paradox, man has experienced so much freedom that he has shackled himself into slavery.”
“The potential application of Chestertonian Distributist ideas in Africa, Latin America, parts of Asia.”
“Only a few hundred words long, it is a much-quoted source of Chestertonian wit.”
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