| This is a man who, while researching his novelettish tome, danced such obsequious attendance on the Queen that a helper at a hospice she was visiting took him for an equerry and asked if his employer needed the loo. |
| Detractors may have called his approach novelettish and accused him of at least occasional mawkishness, but he was able to engage with audiences on a level that many, more timid, British directors of his era were not. |
| Luminous and bold, elegant and elliptical, epic and novelettish, Cather's story reflects the paradoxes of the small town on the wild prairie of its setting, and of its pioneering author. |
| The High Command remained constricted by its novelettish story of murder, blackmail, and family secrets, but the verve of Dickinson's direction still shone through. |
| Beverly has spent her life banishing romance, all that novelettish stuff. |
| Disliking the novelettish type of subjects the company made, he left and, after an interlude in India, joined G.B. Samuelson as a scriptwriter. |
