| His fiction aspired to, and often achieved, a Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos. |
| Chekhovian memories also abound, adding cobwebs to the old manse in Ballybeg in and outside of which most of the action seethes. |
| 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. |
| She has been called Chekhovian in that she writes the comedy of ironic twists and hidden intentions. |
| He plays the blankly charming hero against her sinister clown with squeaking, Chekhovian shoes. |
