London revives a favored theme: the Kiplingesque conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”] Reference

In our Kiplingesque way, we are left behind to mutter: "This isn't fair dealing".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

To call them Kiplingesque would be to cheapen them; they were practically out of the Iliad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colonel Cross of the Gurkhas] Reference

And the ship is more than the crew, or, as another poet with a Kiplingesque turn of mind and phrase has it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference

In these stories London asserts the Kiplingesque myth of the superior White Race, but he also adapts it to a naturalistic framework.    From Wordnik.com.  [“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction] Reference

Needless to say, Brooke finds Nell cute when she's angry, and he becomes jealous of the attentions she's paid by a fine working-class lad named, with Kiplingesque inevitability, Tommy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jill Dawson's novel about Rupert Brooke, "The Great Lover"] Reference

In London in 1998, at the decennial meeting of Anglican primates, the mostly liberal American bishops arrived in a Kiplingesque mood, eager to tutor the "lesser breeds without the law" in advanced thinking about sexuality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Limits Of Inclusiveness] Reference

Hence, for him were provided those Y.M. C.A. night bookkeeping classes administered by solemn earnest men of thirty for solemn credulous youths of twenty-nine; those sermons on content; articles on “building up the rundown store by live advertising”; Kiplingesque stories about playing the game; and correspondence-school advertisements that shrieked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference

It also provides a convenient outlet for bigoted animus – where once denigrating Muslims or advocating invading “pagan” countries at will smacked uncomfortably of racism, religious bigotry, and a Kiplingesque lack of modernity, today you can be out and proud in your hatred of brown-skinned non-Christians as a political stance favoring tolerance, freedom, and progressive values of the kind harbored by David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, and the Young America Foundation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pants-Wetting Bigotry Week « Lean Left] Reference

It was a piece of Kiplingesque whimsy with a deeper point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

Kiplingesque stuff ... much like my own bad verse of that period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference

"'The White Man's Burden' - Kiplingesque Fantasies On Kafkaesque Failings".    From Wordnik.com.  [Concerning Criticism] Reference

Though all authors may not have had the Kiplingesque touch, many had a story or two to tell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference

These are meant to be the badlands, mythologised as no-go areas by Kiplingesque images of xenophobic Pashtuns, jezail musket in hand, defying British troops from rugged clifftops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News]

Crittenden enjoyed, at grown-up parties, sitting quietly in a corner and listening to the adults 'Maughamian, Kiplingesque and Conradian tales of rogue elephants, angry mobs and ancient ghosts, as well as the exchange of war stories by former members of the Wehrmacht.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jules Crittenden] Reference

Hence, for him were provided those Y.M. C.A. night bookkeeping classes administered by solemn earnest men of thirty for solemn credulous youths of twenty-nine; those sermons on content; articles on "building up the rundown store by live advertising"; Kiplingesque stories about playing the game; and correspondence-school advertisements that shrieked, "Mount the ladder to thorough knowledge -- the path to power and to the fuller pay-envelope.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man] Reference

(although the issues have been confused by altruistic and Kiplingesque but not by any means unfounded views about the White Man's Burden) that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade] Reference

"take up the white man's burden" in the Kiplingesque sense, it would ill become England to object; but her doing so is by no means a condition of.    From Wordnik.com.  [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference

We do not question the Party in Islington we are just Kiplingesque foot soldiers, and with exactly that spirit of “we ` re ere because we ` re ere “, off we marched to save Duncan Terrace, England, the World and then Universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Green Day] Reference

"building up the rundown store by live advertising"; Kiplingesque stories about playing the game; and correspondence-school advertisements that shrieked, "Mount the ladder to thorough knowledge -- the path to power and to the fuller pay-envelope.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man] Reference

This crowd is more Kiplingesque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smugness Is Our Greatest Enemy] Reference

Kiplingesque brutality.    From Wordnik.com.  [First and Last Things] Reference

His talk was fascinating ” except when he insisted on repeating to me his own wretched rhymes ... in which he showed he had learned nothing about how to write poetry from his revered Shakespeare ... it was very bad Kiplingesque stuff ... much like my own bad verse of that period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tramping on Life]