Although Stoppard sees his plays as "more unlike, than like, each other - they vary from farce to the sub-Shavian", "Stoppardian" has become a trademark, not least for rapid-fire wit and bathetic juxtaposition, whether moral philosophy with gymnastics, as in Jumpers (1972), or the collision of Lenin, Joyce and Tristan Tzara with Wildean pastiche in Travesties (1974).
During his time at the training academy, he is forced to room with an ex-marine named Dieter: "I can't remember having met a person who was more unlike me than Dieter.
Obviously, the plays are more unlike each other than like each other, but people who take pleasure in finding connections will have no trouble finding them".
Nothing could be more unlike brutish florists' gladioli than the delicate, sweet-scented Gladiolus callianthus (formerly Acidanthera murielae) or dainty, nodding Gladiolus papilio.
Roger Federer, looking more unlike his sporting image than at any time since he reached the top, smashed a racket for the first time in seven and a half years, got a code violation, was booed by a section of the crowd and declined to shake hands with the umpire after a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 defeat by Novak Djokovic in the semi-final of the Sony Ericsson Open.
Its author, Donald Antrim, is arguably more unlike any other living writer than any other living writer.
(Could there be anything more unlike a communion with nature than an evening in a dank and byzantine megacomplex crammed with slots and fast food chains?) But I hadn't seen a bus to Mohegan Sun yet; and shortly after 1 PM, when the other buses had pulled away, I began to wonder if I'd missed my chance and would have to wait another hour.
(Could there be anything more unlike a communion with nature than an evening in a dank and byzantine mega-complex crammed with slots and fast food chains?) But I hadn't seen a bus to Mohegan Sun yet; and shortly after 1 PM, when the other buses had pulled away, I began to wonder if I'd missed my chance and would have to wait another hour.
(Could there be anything more unlike a communion with nature than an evening in a dank and byzantine mega-complex crammed with slots and fast food chains?) But I hadn't seen a bus to Mohegan Sun yet; and shortly after 1PM, when the other buses had pulled away, I began to wonder if I'd missed my chance and would have to wait another hour.
Also, in the presence of an affected co-twin, like-sex twins had only a slightly higher risk of cerebral palsy than did unlike-sex twins, despite the fact that like-sex twins on average share more genes than unlike-sex twins.
We will see in my comments below, however, that Macbeth may be more like than unlike Eichmann, at least in the ease with which he is persuaded that the evil deed is obviously the right one.
