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- adjective Pertaining to, or similar in style to, Tom Stoppard, a British
playwright andscreenwriter
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Examples
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She travels courageously to Germany to unlock the secret of the Variations and, in sub-Stoppardian manner, the playwright crisscrosses his drama in time, revealing Beethoven struggling for years with his ineffable “33 Variations.”
Forever Fonda: Jane Looks Perky as Dying Patient in 33 Variations 2009
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She travels courageously to Germany to unlock the secret of the Variations and, in sub-Stoppardian manner, the playwright crisscrosses his drama in time, revealing Beethoven struggling for years with his ineffable “33 Variations.”
Forever Fonda: Jane Looks Perky as Dying Patient in 33 Variations 2009
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My reluctant disappointment in the opening Voyage, however, has as much to do with my own excited expectations as with Mr Stoppard's strangely un-Stoppardian play.
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He might have noted -- as this viewer of Coast believes - that Stoppard has written three very good plays about Russia's "Romantic Exiles," which he has made accessible to the public by very Stoppardian [?] methods.
Stinky Inky, Part VI: Carlin Romano's April Fools' Joke on His Philadelphia Inquirer Readers 2007
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Stoppard couldn't imagine spending the money the scene cost, but Spielberg came up with the most Stoppardian segment in any of the many movies Stoppard has worked on.
Archive 2005-06-26 Steve Sailer 2005
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Stoppard couldn't imagine spending the money the scene cost, but Spielberg came up with the most Stoppardian segment in any of the many movies Stoppard has worked on.
Batmania Steve Sailer 2005
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James McAvoy but … it's hard to get over-excited about the sufferings of a group of privileged Manhattanites … The play makes some valid Stoppardian points about the way we misinterpret the past.
unknown title 2009
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All those famously Stoppardian elements are present and correct, and well-paced to boot.
chicagotribune.com - 2009
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Variations and, in sub-Stoppardian manner, the playwright crisscrosses his drama in time, revealing Beethoven struggling for years with his ineffable "33 Variations."
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His plays aren’t peopled by Stoppardian intellectuals and philosophers, however.
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