How To Use Tweedy In A Sentence
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This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip.
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I am, for example, as suspicious of authors in tweedy jackets or carrying pipes as I am of professors with elbow patches - they seem to be playing a role that shows how they envision themselves as Author, rather than beign who they are.
Archive 2008-04-01
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There are vintage sports cars, lovely Viyella shirts and tweedy ties.
Evening Standard - Home
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He is a trim, nice-looking 72-year-old wearing a tweedy jacket and spiffy tasselled loafers.
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Taking cues more from tweedy George Plimpton ( "Paper Lion") than schlumpy John Madden ( "Ultimate Tailgating"), herewith some tailgating essentials that which should raise the stakes on your own football fete.
The Gentleman
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Over lunch at Mory's, Yale's tweedy private dining club, he suggests that academics underrate the President because they overvalue specialized knowledge.
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Just as much of today's horror fiction is vampire-driven, one major branch of modern fantasy -- in novels, "cosplay" (costume play), gaming and comics -- is obsessed with an alternate 19th century, one in which the inventions and mad scientists of Jules Verne, the tweedy science fiction of H.G. Wells and the gaslight romances of Arthur Conan Doyle have been mixed and remixed.
"The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder
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They pair well with tailored suits and dresses and with any outfit comprised of one tweedy piece.
Non-Granny Reading Glasses
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It all set a tone of exclusivity and privilege, an air of refinement reserved for corporate leaders and tweedy intellectuals.
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And the sausage and mash was actually very good: a nice local venison banger and tweedy potato.
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Around the sides of the room are tweedy chairs, at the top is a long table.
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For some reason I always imagined the author to be some tweedy pipe smoking gentleman - so I was surprised to discover the author's name behind the initials - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall!
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Oh yes, the great, the double-barrelled and the weak chinned were all there in their green tweedy finery.
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He has that old-fashioned chivalry that makes him wear a shirt and tie, and his tweedy jacket reminds me of one my dad used to wear.
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It is a shabby and disrespectful epitaph for the tweedy old Bernard Quatermass and his adventures, which date back almost to the advent of television.
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The interior is a lot lighter than in traditional Spanish homes, and English touches such as tweedy armchairs and swagged curtains make it feel homey.
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An older woman, pink-cheeked and tweedy, appeared in the doorway.
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Knitwear is key and appears in every imaginable form: an ankle-length Aran dress, long tweedy knit cardigan, sexy fine knit evening top shot with lurex, dainty lace effect camisole or soft stripe sweater.
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I suppose any tweedy golfing trousers would do.
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Well, he's a friend of the band, or more likely a desperate, Tweedy-worshipping hanger-on, which is obvious from the movie's idolatrous tone.
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First comes the hippy California dad – long hair, screechy kids, lots of sunny white light; then the awkward writer, all tweedy fustiness with a sepia tint; and finally the designer, dressed in requisite black geek glasses and cool blue tones.
The Hard Sell: American Airlines
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Top fashion finds: anything mod, trench coats, Eighties ruching, vintage Chanel and Adolfo tweedy jackets, thirties movie star silk charmeuse gowns, seventies high-waist jeans and denim skirts a la Chloe.
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First comes the hippy California dad – long hair, screechy kids, lots of sunny white light; then the awkward writer, all tweedy fustiness with a sepia tint; and finally the designer, dressed in requisite black geek glasses and cool blue tones.
The Hard Sell: American Airlines
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They were not his kind of people, the bluff tweedy graziers, the lofty matrons, the toothy, horsy young women, the cream of what the Bulletin called “the squattocracy.”
The Thorn Birds
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'And the guards march past their colonel in chief, Cheryl Cole-née-Tweedy, in their sustainably sourced uniforms, the miniature wind turbines that replaced the busbies whirring gently in the breeze…' It doesn't bear thinking about.
Lucy Mangan: What is it with Tories and royalty?
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And the Conservative cause no longer can be found at the tweedy, collegiate haunts but rather prefers to be spread out at some beer bar in backwoods Alabama.
CPAC Warmongering Etc. « Antiwar.com Blog
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And there was the same guy sitting out in front of the library, chatting to some other tweedy academic type.
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When Iain turned up to meet me for the first time, he was wearing these odd, tweedy clothes and had long hair, which was very uncool for the era.
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Without abandoning her earlier assessment of Jeff Tweedy's performance, she ventured a more complex answer.
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The time when msnbc is unfair is when some dingbat like patty or tweedy start talking.
Think Progress » Roger Ailes Admits That The White House Might Have ‘Legitimate Complaints’ About Fox News
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Tweedy's managers started buying into a Latin American bottler at $15 a share and watched the price sink.
Tweedy's High Performing Global Fund
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He's an unlikely rebel, a tweedy biology professor who's found himself at the center of one of the year's most ferocious debates.
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This was not yesterday's tweedy tourist but a more with-it or possibly somewhat past it type in blue jeans and a bright red windbreaker.
THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
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The landlubberly sport coat [above, center], meanwhile, originally derived from the tweedy, robust coats worn while assisting in the untimely end of feathered or furry creatures.
Esquire.com Article Feed
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Do you see that guy over there with the bad haircut in the tweedy jacket?
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A child psychiatrist and the medical director of the CD-CP, he is tweedy and bearlike, with curly brown hair and a salt-and-pepper beard.
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On the downside, middle-aged Mr. Tweedy has been writing songs that have a weakness for breezy comfiness: 2007's Sky Blue Sky even features a song about household chores.
Wilco Gets Hefty, Hammy and Happy on Coney Island
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In the living room, a tweedy wing chair (on deep discount from Ralph Lauren) and an antique chair (discarded from a fitting room) join a plan denim sofa.
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No longer will some red-faced tweedy type, shotgun under the arm, be likely to block their path and order them: ‘Get orf my land!’
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But she left the apartment in tweedy jackets with big shoulder pads and blue eye shadow.
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Has it got anything to do with fishing being a rural, quarry sport, too closely associated, often erroneously, with tweedy people who shoot things?
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Picture this: Your date slips off his tweedy sport coat and drapes it across your bare shoulders to protect you from the chilly breeze.
Ask Teri
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Diane Lane's Penny Chenery Tweedy takes charge of her father's troubled farm as a foal is born in 1970 and goes on to win the Triple Crown.
The Short List: A Guide to This Week's Arts and Entertainment
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In the dusty window, there was a pure wool 'tweedy' jacket costing £135, a pair of heavy corduroy trousers at£45, and a pair of blood red slacks at £30.
Tailor to his Lordship
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Stick on a pair of wellies with a tweedy number and you can muck out stables, walk the dog or dig the garden.
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Tweedy, who is one of three clowns touring with the circus, made a big impact with the 150 children at the infant school.
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`And who, Mr Bowden," asked Tweedy, `was the chief of these Frankish bandits who quarrelled among themselves over the loot?
THE THIRD CLASS GENIE
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Designers have taken the bulk, and some of the frumpery, out of sensible tweedy fabrics to give these jackets a nostalgic, vaguely Forties or Fifties air.
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The men's dorms are decorated in virile earth tones and the rugged wood and tweedy furniture gives you the feeling of being in a hunting lodge.
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She had a black floral scarf wrapped around her head, a tan, tweedy skirt, and a purple sweater made of cheap, static material.
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Its tweedy historical framework may appear out of character for the director, but not the volatile character dynamics.
Histories and Mysteries
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A tweedy poetaster who spent his time spinning out parables and Japanese koans…or a bland Jesus who simply told people to look at lilies in the fields — such a Jesus would threaten no one, just as the university professors who create him the Jesus Seminar and their ilk threaten no one.
Archive 2007-09-09
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Never wear a matching two-piece tweed suit, but break it up by putting on a pair of baggy, mannish trousers or jeans with a pretty, shrunken, tweedy jacket.
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We're all aware that, while cutting-edge fashion can be a slither of mermaid sequins slashed north of the knicker line, it just as often means a tweedy suit, and a caramel leather blouson worn with shades.
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Here's what Jeff Tweedy has to say about it, snipped from the press release:
Boing Boing: June 12, 2005 - June 18, 2005 Archives
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(So, basically, the guy who has vowed to have a respectful dialogue with any crumbum Third World dictator is now threatening to steamroll over tweedy American college presidents - but that's another story.)
Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
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All bundled up as if was expecting cold weather, he was wearing a long, tweedy coat, a bunch of scarves twisted around his head so you could hardly see his face.
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It's a lovely smell, tweedy somehow, reminiscent of teacher's jackets and the faint tobacco scent my grandfather used to have about him when he gave you a hug or, if you were too grown up for a hug, a friendly arm across the shoulder.
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Though he works for a fictional firm, the stature and trappings are old school, and his cohort of young associates all have the scrubbed and tweedy Harvard look about them.
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And if you sit there for long enough, and close your eyes, its possible to imagine his Lordship stepping off the steam driven train, wearing blood red red slacks, a pure wool 'tweedy' jacket and the trademark cap.
Tailor to his Lordship
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He has an avuncular, precociously adult manner of speaking - like a tweedy professor with elbow patches.
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She was wearing a plain tweedy suit with a simple square pendant of some purple gem.
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She was wearing a plain tweedy suit with a simple square pendant of some purple gem.
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Excruciatingly tight corsets, puffball skirts made of netting and tweedy twinsets minus the midriff have been some of the more extreme looks wowing fashion followers at the catwalk collections in Paris.
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Some of those who spoke made sense, she said, but there were others who seemed just as batty and abstracted as the most eccentric tweedy types of yesteryear, despite the Marxian lingo and the earrings.
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Pass him on the street, and the first impression would be tweedy intellectual.
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This season, a floaty chiffon knee-length skirt paired with a Fair Isle sweater or a tweedy jacket will look extremely hip.
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There are flecks of lint, or dandruff, on Ault's tweedy shoulders.
MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
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the voice continued, and a woman in a tweedy jacket strode into view.
READY?
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All bundled up as if was expecting cold weather, he was wearing a long, tweedy coat, a bunch of scarves twisted around his head so you could hardly see his face.
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You might find moments of optimism hidden among Tweedy's disaffected, disconnected lyrics.
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Also influential: all those tweedy DBs on "Downton Abbey," the hit PBS soap opera set in England in World War I.
The 'DB' Returns, Fitter Than Ever
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This is basically a voluminous, trapeze-cut jacket in a tweedy fabric, with kimono-shaped sleeves.
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Muttering under my breath, I chose a pair of russet trousers, a cream poloneck angora and lambswool jumper and a tweedy jacket.
KICK BACK
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For what Emerald needed to find was a hint, a suspicion of tweedy tailoring in the Paris collections.
YELLOW BIRD
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Tweedy Upper West Side literary lion teams up with Wall Street mogul to launch multimedia content ‘brand.’
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Excruciatingly tight corsets, puffball skirts made of netting and tweedy twinsets minus the midriff have been some of the more extreme looks wowing fashion followers at the catwalk collections in Paris.
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His rather musty, tweedy jacket made him look oddly like a careers adviser.
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He was the picture of the tweedy, eccentric professor, bookish and reclusive.
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Learning How to Die," a disgruntled president of a major record label bemoaned Jeff Tweedy's penchant for making "indulgent" albums.
Jew Eat Yet?
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Earlier in the day, the royal wore a tweedy sheath with navy appliques paired with beige pumps and her hair down loose.
Princess Letizia Wears Sheer Dress To Prince of Asturias Awards (PHOTOS)
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The tweedy figure from an age of patrician Toryism must be an image-maker's worst nightmare.
