Sentence examples for with a lapdog from inspiring English sources

Ultimately the love games in "The Lady With a Lapdog" lead Anna and Gurov to a confrontation with their own mortality.

Do we condemn Gurov in Chekhov's "Lady With a Lapdog" because he's a rake: philandering, insincere, guilty of seducing an innocent married woman into an affair that is probably going to cause many people a good deal of pain?

"These kinds of performances cannot be entirely realistic," Mr. Ginkas said in Cambridge, Mass., last month, where he was rehearsing another adaptation, that of Chekhov's short story "The Lady With a Lapdog".

Someone who missed the Northern Lights because they were fussing with a lapdog; who proved unable to see beyond their readerly peccadillos and prejudices or their flat-out limitations.

In his greatest stories including The Man in a Case (1898), The Lady with a Lapdog (1899), The Darling (1899), and In the Ravine (1900)—Chekhov manages to attain all the power of his great predecessors in a remarkably compact form.

Since the mid-eighties, she has spent most of her time trying to concoct a cat with the temperament of a lapdog and the appearance of a tiger one that is "small, but it looks like it could take down a gazelle".

She signalled her availability by attending his funeral in a backless white wedding dress, with a yapping lapdog tucked under her arm.

But the fact that it's Trump, who has so alienated much of the rest of the world — "I try so hard to be his friend," he tweeted, of Kim Jong Un, before word came of their potential meeting — makes a world leader who can forge some points of agreement with him look like less of a lapdog than an elephant tamer.

"We need a watchdog, not a lapdog," Mr. Shelby said.

"A lapdog doesn't open eight separate investigations," he said.

"I'm not a lapdog cut person and I won't tow the party line.