It is, someone has suggested, a Chekhovian tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: Philip Roth's The Humbling Is, At 140 Pages, His Best Book In Years] Reference

Instead, McMahon's tone here seems almost Chekhovian to me.    From Wordnik.com.  ['McKay's Bees' Alive With Wit And Wonder] Reference

Needless to say, the second Chekhovian rifle was fired here.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the BSNYC Culture Desk: "The Belle of the Ball Bearings" (A Musical)] Reference

I am talking about the mundane, the everyday Chekhovian stuff of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware] Reference

Wood declares Carver “a master” of the Joycean and Chekhovian genre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raymond Carver] Reference

The bottom line is: Some flashes of WOW scattered thru a Chekhovian labyrinth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Alderman: Book Review: "Child 44"] Reference

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Things are getting Chekhovian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things are getting Chekhovian] Reference

However, I can see the world as Chekhovian, or at least my interpretation of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey! Your Truth Got Into My Book! « Whatever] Reference

Chekhovian in this sense: by Allan Wayne on Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009 at 4: 42: 48 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outing Montezuma] Reference

Clearly, this is tragedy -- Shakespearean in its implications and Chekhovian in its impact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Greenwald: Tom DeLay Gave My Appearance on the Colbert Report a Bad Review...] Reference

But what is accomplished by taking a slim Chekhovian tale and tossing in a few celebrity names?.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Mockery Is All That's Left] Reference

This souvenir-shop Russia, this Fabergé world, has nothing to do with the modest Chekhovian world of Pasternak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Translating Pasternak] Reference

The sketches of her mother's family, especially the story of Aunt Anna (Letter 5), have a distinct Chekhovian ring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty Letters to a Father] Reference

But he decided that working in Chekhovian naturalism and Shakespearean style back to back was too intriguing to pass up.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the World's a Stage] Reference

It's all rather Chekhovian, but Michael Kahn's direction here emphasized the opera's campier elements rather than its subtleties.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Updated and Ravishing 'Giulio Cesare'] Reference

(One can almost hear some mournful Chekhovian aristocrat declare: "My estates may be damaged, Vasily, but yours are close to ruin!").    From Wordnik.com.  [American Power Is on the Wane] Reference

Although Olivier Assayas acknowledges the Chekhovian tonalities of “Summer Hours,” he also considers it his most Taiwanese film.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘Hell’ Is No Drag, but Horror-Flick Heaven] Reference

Yet Nichols and his actors zero in on the Chekhovian absurdity of human existence -- which makes for some surprisingly rollicking moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flying High] Reference

In typical Chekhovian fashion, Konstantin is someone who tries to commit suicide twice — the first time as farce, the second as tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [<i>The Seagull</i> Soars, Lofted by Sarsgaard, Scott Thomas] Reference

Was Richard Yates never published in the New Yorker because the editors trained themselves to react distastefully to Chekhovian naturalism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thin-Slicing Fiction : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference

A few non-balletic touches create a whiff of Chekhovian dailiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference

From the start, the novel is motivated by a near-Chekhovian sense of sweet melancholy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Texas Observer: In the Current Issue] Reference

"We treated it all rather like a Chekhovian play and I think it came out that well," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV News RSS Feed]

Frank McGuinness's emotionally rich and highly enjoyable new play has a Chekhovian structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Look of the week: Scarlett Johansson] Reference

"The Band's Visit" - Its Chekhovian spirit captures the poignancy and triumphs of small lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [indieWIRE News] Reference

Written and directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska, this drama is laced with Chekhovian references.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alliance of Women Film Journalists] Reference

Alexander Hanson 's definitive, interestingly complex married lawyer Fredrik is a jewel of Chekhovian acting.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Too Much Happiness," the title story of Alice Munro's latest collection, is a brilliant distillation of her Chekhovian.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Japan's Top Central Banker Plays Down Policy Conflicts] Reference

The only fault of Nunn's meticulous, often obsessively Chekhovian direction, is the odd loss of pace, often in scenes with.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Mr. Assayas takes what might have been an anecdotal family drama about antiques and gives it Chekhovian weight and pathos.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

"That whole thing of dividing up the land and house between the children - there's something Chekhovian about it," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Film | guardian.co.uk] Reference

And he took a Chekhovian approach to his characters, hardscrabble souls with deep family histories and endless depths of backstory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

The title of Alexis Dos Santos's second feature film suggests either a Chekhovian spright or a close kinship with Francois Truffaut's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits] Reference

By infusing this stagnation with rollicking humanism, Kott plants the seeds of a makeshift family within a fading Chekhovian backwater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Variety.com] Reference