big-wigged

Seriously, Gortner has been sporadically haunting my dreams ever since that scene in Earthquake where he terrorizes a big-wigged, tightly t-shirted Victoria Principal (I tried to find the movie image ... here's a hint: Don't search Google images with her name, or, if you are Pete, go right ahead).

A Moment of Surrealism 2004

When one thinks of the patches and powder that have simpered out of those plate-glass windows — the mitred bishops, the big-wigged marshals, the shovel-hatted abbes which they have borne in their time — the human mind becomes affected in no ordinary degree.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

Against all tyrants, all big-wigged impostors, black, white, or gray, was his hammer ringing, and sparks of wit were flying about as ever under his hand.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

Liturgies chanted under lofty arches, creeds recited by generation following generation, traditions of law, however absurd, uttered by one big-wigged judge following a reverend line of ghostly big-wigs gone before that have said the same foolish things for ages -- these all take considerable advantage from the power of accessories to impose upon the human imagination.

The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869

The others are all very well in their way: the parsons, and the soldiers, and the big-wigged lawyers, and the merchants, and the doctors, and the

Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

On one subject he greatly tried her forbearance -- the unbecoming levity, as she esteemed it, with which he regarded the big-wigged gentlemen and hooped and farthingaled ladies whose portraits ornamented their picture gallery.

Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest 1840

Towards nightfall comes the chariot of a physician, and deposits its big-wigged and solemn burden at Wakefield's door, whence, after a quarter of an hour's visit, he emerges, perchance the herald of a funeral.

Wakefield 1837

It has a gallery of portraits of the different ambassadors, a big-wigged if a not big-witted set.

A Residence in France Cooper, J Fenimore 1836

Toward nightfall comes the chariot of a physician and deposits its big-wigged and solemn burden at Wakefield's door, whence after a quarter of an hour's visit he emerges, perchance the herald of

Twice Told Tales Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

(venerable, Saturnian, big-wigged dynasty!) could review it down.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899