| He became a schoolmaster until his first West End success with a Chekhovian domestic drama about an insurance salesman incapable of fulfilling his own dreams of a better life. |
| His fiction aspired to, and often achieved, a Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos. |
| His Chekhovian mots and those little traits that astonish us by their neatness and appositeness, he often took direct from life. |
| Chekhov wrote The Steppe, appropriately the first tale in this volume, when he was 28, and it is a kind of manifesto of Chekhovian lifelikeness. |
| She has been called Chekhovian in that she writes the comedy of ironic twists and hidden intentions. |
| Deep emotion, pathos, and laughter through tears are all hallmarks of the Chekhovian oeuvre. |
