So the pachydermic concept with the thunderous footfall is this: can a painter who veers back and forth between emphatically paint-as-paint abstractions (Richter squeegees the stuff across canvases on the studio floor) and a form of painstaking realism be taken seriously as a whole?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking Back At Richter] Reference

Perhaps the pachydermic Beef's grim attitude unnerved the wonderful Bob.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

At length, he left the road on which the pachydermic aggregation had lumbered for some distance, and turned up a long lane, leading to a farm-house.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

The pachydermic Butch, fully dressed -- and awake, raging in his wrath like an active volcano, glanced at his watch, and discovered that it was exactly five A.M.!.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

Never before, or afterward, not even when the luckless Butch fell in love, and T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., assisted Cupid, did the pachydermic Butch act so insanely as on this occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

Instinctively realizing that the pachydermic parade was headed for < i > his room, T. Haviland Hicks, Jr., rushed to the closet, murmuring, "Safety first!" as usual, and stowed away his banjo.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

Big Butch Brewster, his pachydermic frame draped in his gown, and his mortar-board cap on his head, for the Seniors were required to wear their regalia during Commencement week, was bellowing through a megaphone, as he stood on the steps of Bannister Hall, and Mr. Hicks, with his cheerful son, listened.    From Wordnik.com.  [T. Haviland Hicks Senior] Reference

Our blundering political system is pachydermic in its irresponsiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Preface to Politics] Reference

And absolutely nothing is quite so ghastly sad as the sight of those same well-flushed, well-fleshed Germans cavorting about between the hours of two and four-thirty A.M., trying, with all the pachydermic ponderosity of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Revised] Reference

Is there anything in the way of demonstration that can overcome this pachydermic stupidity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7] Reference

The original aim was to play a thousand-faces-stoner-rock, from massive and pachydermic sounds to moments of quietness and peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metal Underground .com] Reference