| His Chekhovian mots and those little traits that astonish us by their neatness and appositeness, he often took direct from life. |
| This last performance was hailed as one of the finest Chekhovian performances he had ever seen. |
| 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. |
| His fiction aspired to, and often achieved, a Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos. |
| He plays the blankly charming hero against her sinister clown with squeaking, Chekhovian shoes. |
| So now I'm bogarting a hundred camels for my wannabe Chekhovian slices-of-life film? |
