Sentence examples similar to something of a don from inspiring English sources

Fletcher captures the patient relentlessness of this theatricalism, which often needed preparation and forethought, and certainly demanded a kind of addicted commitment: "Keith wore the Nazi uniform like something of a second skin, donning it intermittently for the next six or seven years".

Trenton Oldfield was probably hoping to make something of a splash when he donned a wetsuit and swam out into the Thames, disrupting the Oxford and Cambridge boatrace in protest against elitism and inequality.

Mr. Kwiecien has made something of a specialty of the libertine Don.

Rod Stewart's mega-successful Great American Songbook series has become something of a blueprint for musicians at a crossroads – donning a metaphorical black tie and settling into the nostalgic glow of pre-rock music standards.

A POLYMATH in a profession of intellectual pygmies; a free thinker in a world of crushing orthodoxies; and a cheerful imbiber in a country that has turned, once again, to Puritanism Daniel Patrick Moynihan really was one of the most remarkable American politicians of his generation.There was something of the Oxford don about him.

10. reveals the ghost of a don at All Saints'?

The swimmer, who even said he wants to be a clothing designer, is something of a style maven (is "maven" the right word?) like his idol Lil' Wayne, donning a host of neon printed bathing suits over the years.

Indeed, it was Rooney's low strike, his seventh for the Dons, which brought Aberdeen level after another top marksman, Kris Boyd, had given Killie something of a shock lead at a busy Pittodrie.

But it is something of a Don Juan, mating for more than two hours at a time, on average.

Something of a mess.

Something of a surprise.