| 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. |
| There are Chekhovian echoes in its depiction of a way of life about to pass into oblivion. |
| His Chekhovian mots and those little traits that astonish us by their neatness and appositeness, he often took direct from life. |
| She has been called Chekhovian in that she writes the comedy of ironic twists and hidden intentions. |
| Chekhovian memories also abound, adding cobwebs to the old manse in Ballybeg in and outside of which most of the action seethes. |
| His fiction aspired to, and often achieved, a Chekhovian mixture of comic concision and pathos. |
