(1) That fact, like many others, does not appear in her Pooterish autobiography, Open Secret(2) Tony Benn's diaries date back to 1940, since when he has poured over events at Westminster in Pooterish detail.(3) Whistler's description of meeting him at a party in laurel wreath, toga, and iron-rimmed spectacles has a definitely Pooterish quality.(4) Bayley's deadpan, Pooterish style draws the reader into supplying what is left out.(5) In writing those awful Pooterish books about Iris, John Bayley has quite appropriated her life to his own ends - an irony of which director Richard Eyre seems utterly unaware.(6) She writes about their ‘relationship’ with a Pooterish self-regard that verges on the comic.’(7) It's a minor classic of Pooterish indignation.(8) In that sense Clarke is quintessentially English: Pooterish , mildly eccentric, inquisitive, unpushy yet quietly ambitious.(9) It nevertheless offered a memorable addition to Leigh's gallery of comic creations in Alan Dixon, a Pooterish middle-aged clerk who has an obsession with the activities of the British royalty and aristocracy.(10) The die was cast against Wilde, found guilty of playing with sin in the secret house of shame, and there was Pooterish celebration at The Laurels.(11) Nor is he some Pooterish prisoner of the past, obsessed with maintaining a gentility and civility for cricket that never existed in the first place.(12) He was a Pooterish character (Brahmsian beard and all).
