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• In the first half of his latest show, Lord of the Mince - which he describes a self-assured strutt called mincing of which he is the doyen - he reviews the ups and downs in his life. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
• Above all, his writings and his leadership made him the undoubted doyen of British railway historians.
• Stand-up comedy is the medium from which the doyens of light entertainment are recruited in today's world of low-budget television.
• For the doyen of older press historians, older newspapers were like boroughs: rotten.
• Frankie Dettori's bid to notch up his third straight victory in the race was dashed as his mount Doyen finished fourth.
• Huffington Post's co-founder Arianna Huffington, is often described as the doyenne of the liberal political commentary in the United States and is a regular fixture on the cable TV news circuit opining on political news of the day. Reuters: Top News
• He is the doyen of UK microbiologists and virologists.
• Bataille (anthropologist, philosopher and pornographer, a doyen of recent postmodern aestheticism and anti-rationalism) was perhaps the most powerful articulator of Kojève's pessimism in the face of the ‘death of man’.
• In truth, the gamble in bringing Doyen back against an instinct to keep him for another season never looked like succeeding.
• The doyen of professional safari guides, he began his career in the bush as a teenage cadet ranger with Zimbabwe's National Parks Service.