What is "dickensian"

Usage examples of "dickensian".

I could spend many happy hours in discussion with you about the essence of Dickensian narrative, but it would really be a waste of my precious time.

I have always enjoyed politics, both the complexities and strategies of the game and the vast, Dickensian comedy of it all.

Featuring a Tudor facade with South-of-France striped awnings, the restaurant was the happy marriage of two stores with upper lofts merged into a Dickensian fantasy.

Sometimes the desire for power, or to possess the substance for its own sake, moves the plot, but the Dickensian themes of mistaken, lost, or found identity, themes that have dominated novels ever since the nineteenth century, are deliberately effacedanother gloss on the modern situation.

I was getting carried away with my Dickensian reverie when I was saved by the bell.

Croup examined the figurine minutely, turning it over and over in his hands, a Dickensian curator of the Museum of the Damned contemplating a prize exhibit.

And then of course there was the wine, the excitement, the heady feeling that came with signing all those books in that strange Dickensian shop.

A quartet of singers in Dickensian dress harmonized carols outside the ballroom door.

They slandered him in trade newspapers, characterizing him as a Dickensian monster out to create a sweatshop based on management by intimidation.

The registrar nurse examined a huge, Dickensian ledger printed in dot matrix rather than quill.

And clerks on old-fashioned high stools at tall Dickensian teller desks, snooping on all they surveyed.

Carroll could see what she saw and feel just as good about it, the parties, the Dickensian Christmases.

If I wasn't of the opinion that coincidences are merely chance or an overused Dickensian plot device, I might conclude that an old enemy of yours wants to get even.