| So now I'm bogarting a hundred camels for my wannabe Chekhovian slices-of-life film? |
| The result is a game of spot the allusion, with the final mass exodus dictated more by Chekhovian precedent than any kind of political logic. |
| Chekhovian memories also abound, adding cobwebs to the old manse in Ballybeg in and outside of which most of the action seethes. |
| There are Chekhovian echoes in its depiction of a way of life about to pass into oblivion. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
