moustached

Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns.

The Pity of War 2009

This work made the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached version into something practically unchallengeable for the first generation that had no memory of the conflict itself.

The Pity of War 2009

Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns.

The Pity of War 2009

Devised by a moustached ex-doctor, Mike Wozniak, and stooping stand-up and cartoonist Henry Paker, the show is ostensibly a sort-of thriller about a search for a missing scientist.

This week's new comedy 2011

He called Dominick, a young moustached Italian, to see the sight.

Chapter 4 2010

This work made the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached version into something practically unchallengeable for the first generation that had no memory of the conflict itself.

The Pity of War 2009

Clam was Nelson's partner, and he was a fine, brave, handsome, moustached man of thirty -- everything, in short, that his nickname did not connote.

Chapter 9 2010

This show of her prints includes vividly coloured linocuts of Noah's ark, comically moustached spaniels, cats lost in fishy reveries, and swans gliding beneath blushing pink skies.

This week's new exhibitions 2012

And his father he saw, large, big-moustached and deep-chested, kindly above all men, who loved all men and whose heart was so large that there was love to overflowing still left for the mother and the little muchacho playing in the corner of the patio.

The Mexican 2010

Or the behaviour of the council's handlebar-moustached leader, Roy Bullock, whose attempts to "keep the natives happy" have merely resulted in him being accosted by them in Sainsbury's?

Hugh Muir's diary 2011