insurable interest in a property or person that they wish to insure. The "officious bystander" is a metaphorical character in English law, used to determine...

The officious bystander is a metaphorical figure of English law and legal fiction, developed by MacKinnon LJ in Southern Foundries (1926) Ltd v Shirlaw...

An officious intermeddler is a person who voluntarily, and without request or pre-existing legal duty, interjects themself into the affairs of another...

another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was...

He was famous for playing excitable, meddlesome, temperamental, and officious blowhards. Catlett was born on February 4, 1889, in San Francisco, California...

programmes, but is chiefly remembered as "Mr William Grimsdale", the officious superior and comic foil to Norman Wisdom's character of Pitkin in many...

as he was often cast as an ornery boss, a cagey businessman or other officious types. Andrews was born in Griffin, Georgia, the son of an Episcopal priest...

races in the galaxy—not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous", and having "as much sex appeal as a road accident" as well...

Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys...

particularly well known for his character 'Johan van der Walt', a highly officious, disturbingly pedantic, offensive security officer and part-time film...

backronym. Yahoo!, sometimes claimed to mean "yet another hierarchical officious oracle", was in fact chosen because Yahoo's founders liked the word's...

in Time Kim Possible Voice role; television film 2004 Joan of Arcadia Officious Hall Monitor God Episode: "The Book of Questions" 2005 Kim Possible: So...

miners had various grievances, chiefly the cost of mining permits and the officious way the system was enforced. The colony of Victoria was created on 1 July...

Moorcock. The presiding judge created a quaint concept of an officious bystander; if the officious bystander were to propose a term and both the parties would...

father Fred, an old vaudeville performer; and Olivia Hamnett as Bobby's officious manager, Della McDermott. Qing Ling was a regular special guest star as...

his fortune among his socialite daughter Goneril (Brenda Scott), his officious middle daughter Regan (Noelle Fair) and university daughter Cordelia (Emily...

suicide, abortion and euthanasia. Cole played the role of the stern, officious yet kindly doctor over three series and a one-off special between 1981...

Ferguson: A friend and fellow nurse of Miss Catherine. Miss Van Campen: The officious superintendent of nurses at the American hospital in Milan. She and Henry...

2018. Martin, Douglas (April 12, 2000). "Larry Linville, TV Actor, 60; Officious Major of 'M*A*S*H'". The New York Times. Retrieved April 21, 2018. Jelinek...

responsibilities. Sometimes the phrase is used to describe people who are viewed as officious or meddling in the affairs of others. It is another way of saying "get...

Navarone (1961), (both of which starred David Niven) and as the callous and officious Colonel Cavendish in The 7th Dawn (1964) with William Holden. In 1961...

more than his initial cursory investigation. Once Sid makes it past the officious substitute parish secretary and notifies him of developments, Father Brown...

Yacc – Yet another compiler-compiler Yahoo! – Yet another hierarchical officious (or hierarchically organized) oracle (a backronym) Yakuake – Yet another...

Grant and Lee attempt to sign the treaty at Appomattox Courthouse, but an officious notary wants to do everything by the book. Kublai Khan explains how he's...

socialism. American bureaucracy grows as luxuriantly and behaves as officiously as any other." Economic anthropologist Jason Hickel and his colleague...

he solves supernatural mysteries, vanquishes demons, and clashes with officious angels sent to watch over him. Constantine makes a guest appearance in...

Cooper employees refer to John as "Moneypenny", much to his chagrin. His officious, self-important manner annoys nearly everyone in the office, particularly...

an affair at the beginning of the series. Other characters include the officious hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith), Jackie's...

left disabled until her death. Mr Pumblechook, Joe Gargery's uncle, an officious bachelor and corn merchant. While not knowing how to deal with a growing...

The general opinion at the Castle seems to have been that he was an officious fool who had lost his life unnecessarily. In the first report to Holland...

Incident Still Rankles". ESPNcricinfo. Williamson, Martin (22 August 2006). "Officious Officialdom". ESPNcricinfo. "Bloody Money" Archived 6 December 2004 at...

Digory lives with an Aunt Gertrude, a former school mistress with an officious, bullying nature, who has ended up as a Government minister after a lifetime...

Butler and starring Doris Day and Ray Bolger. Winthrop Putnam is the officious assistant secretary to the assistant to the Under Secretary of State,...

officer and anti-obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock, who proved himself officious in the work of suppression both in his official capacity and through his...

The song is about a dispute between a workman digging a hole and an officious busybody wearing a bowler hat. This exemplifies British class conflict...

"instantly establishing his standard screen characterization of fussy officiousness", leavened in many instances with a military bearing. Other examples...

James Michener. He appeared in the comedy Ghostbusters (1984) as the officious and condescending EPA agent Walter Peck. Martha Coolidge chose Atherton...

the 2009 film The Unborn. Lee has also appeared as Harry Tang, Chuck's officious co-worker, in the NBC comedy-spy series Chuck and as a deputy in an episode...

Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." The “yahoo.com” domain was created on January 18, 1995. Yahoo...

folk duo in New York City. The two have frequent appointments with their officious and ineffectual band manager, Murray Hewitt (Rhys Darby), a Deputy Cultural...

of an explosion in her neighbourhood Adeel Akhtar as Hamza Malik, an officious military intelligence operator working under C on a black operation Darren...

Crosby. Another comedian, Bill Saluga, was noted in some of these for his officious character of "Raymond J. Johnson Jr.," whose tagline was essentially,...

House and infuriates the staff, especially Sister Evangelina, with her officious manner. Sister Julienne is delighted when a rich benefactor resolves to...

Hazlitt as a "sincere" father, but also "a busy-body, [who] is accordingly officious, garrulous, and impertinent". In Act II, Prince Hamlet refers to Polonius...

figures in law including: the "right-thinking member of society", the "officious bystander", the "reasonable parent", the "reasonable landlord", the "fair-minded...

quickly runs into a major obstacle in the form of Mr. Bison, the school's officious, power-hungry cafeteria manager. Mr. Bison strictly objects to the donations...

bungling, rather than merely Charteris's characterisation of him as an officious, unimaginative policeman. When in France, Templar had a similar relationship...

(1992). "Procrustean Beds and Draconian Choices: Lifestyle Regulations and Officious Intermeddlers--Bosses, Workers, Courts, and Labor Arbitrators". Missouri...

George Millican's caregiver. Millican is frustrated with her relentlessly officious and domineering manner, and generally refuses her help. Tom Goodman-Hill...

into the dimension of the generally human". Habermas called Nolte the "officious-conservative narrator" who presented a version of history in which the...

included the holiday centre manager in the 1973 film Holiday on the Buses, officious policemen in Adventures of a Taxi Driver (1976) and Revenge of the Pink...

whodunit murder mystery event is taking place at the hotel, organized by an officious woman named Rose (Jean Alexander) who keeps probing the place for clues...

tries resuscitation, but Hazel is dead. Surgeon Geoffrey Nicholson, an officious man on the hospital board made Hazel's life a misery, as she discussed...

his Our Gang appearances, Kaye portrayed "Waldo", a rich kid with an officious, studious nature who competed with schoolmates "Alfalfa" Switzer and "Butch"...

killjoy, a scapegoat who deserves to be held up to ridicule because of his officious humourlessness. There would be a need to expose Malvolio if he pretended...

(Grytpype-Thynne) "You can't park 'ere, mate" (Willium) – Milligan's dig at officious BBC commissionaires. "Ying Tong Iddle I Po" (various) – which became the...

was limited mostly to bits in minor films, one of his notable being the officious Spanish consul in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles (1961). Among his...

Goeschel, wrote "...German military and political officials now adopted an officious tone in their dealings with Italians, which Badoglio was made to feel...

Paul Ivory, a playwright. Meanwhile, Grace settles into marriage with officious bureaucrat Christian Thrale. The Sydney Review of Books wrote of the novel:...

in the original novel. The novel depicts Deckard as an obsequious and officious underling who is human and has a wife, but because of the many versions...

Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was...

purposes; and to inquire about the Arab reaction on the official and officious levels before making any commitments. King Saud explained to the American...

when she finds out he is about to reject a better deal in favor of the officious agreement. During a fight about her losing faith in him, Harvey and Donna...

the character's old-fashioned and militant ideals of justice, and his officious and strongly opinionated attitude. Despite this, he has stated on many...

manager George (Shearsmith), the gossipy Liz (Jane Horrocks) and the officious Joanne (Nikki Amuka-Bird). A difficult call from a suicidal teenage girl...

law, described a criminal offence committed by people who are overly officious in instigating or encouraging prosecution of groundless litigation, or...

Jordan, with the movie's star Warren Beatty and appeared in the film as an officious angel, reprising the character originally played by Edward Everett Horton...

Knickerbocker, an old-fashioned Dutch New Yorker in Irving's satire of chatty and officious local history. In fact, Washington Irving had a real friend named Herman...

Australian cricket historian, remarked that Jeanes had become increasingly "officious and liverish", leading to his waning popularity among players. Suffering...

of adventure in his teens was ended when a surprisingly forceful and officious letter demanding his return arrived while he awaited a ship in Wales....

right-thinking member of society, familiar from the law of defamation, the officious bystander, the reasonable parent, the reasonable landlord, and the fair-minded...

proves equally ambitious but not much smarter and ultimately equally as officious and presumptuous as his British counterpart. After Harrison and Snare's...

terms. The classic tests have been the "business efficacy test" and the "officious bystander test". Under the "business efficacy test", first proposed in...

disguise, and improvisation. Pendergast has a special intense disdain for officious pompous incompetent bureaucrats, and when he needs to approach them for...

antics and wisecracks are a trial for the egotistical director and his officious but cowardly assistant, Tony. Years of numerous "gags" and his use of...

Klemperer) is an old-line Luftwaffe officer of Prussian descent. He is officious, gullible, cowardly, vain, inept, and often clueless. He is a veteran...

rewrite some of Snowball’s scenes to portray him as "more dominating and officious” while the finished film does not take a stance on the practicality of...

Shih Tzu breed, Isabelle quickly won over every player's heart with her officious nature and killer style." GamesRadar's Henry Gilbert called her his favorite...

Great Canadian Theatre Company. McVie appeared in the play as Lois, an officious and by-the-book middle manager. The play later received a Toronto production...

the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensitivity...

 1986 (1986-12-01) Wally’s former nanny comes to take care of Kevin, but her officious manner rattles Mary Ellen. Guest starring: Alice Ghostley 40 14 "A Day...

while she goes shopping. After his arrival, Benchley dodges an overly officious studio guide named Humphrey (played by Buddy Pepper). As he wanders around...

well as a brick jail above ground." Some jails may have been tidy and officious operations, but many or most were not. Henry Bibb described one jail where...

MacKinnon LJ's decision in the Court of Appeal, where he put forth the "officious bystander" formulation for determining what terms should be implied into...

he lost in World War II. Tom is initially supervised by Bill Ogden, an officious micromanager and office politician who rejects Tom's drafts of an important...

he solves supernatural mysteries, vanquishes demons, and clashes with officious angels sent to watch over him while protecting the world from the "Rising...

on as placidly as it always has, quite unmoved by western ways or the officious efforts of modernists to bring about a social revolution. Rao Saheb's...

when the same play transferred to New York City in 1947. She played an officious headmistress in The Happiest Days of Your Life at the Apollo Theatre in...

years old. A hypochondriac when not busy being a nosy, self-satisfied, officious pest. Arthur Parker – The youngest Parker brother. 21 years old. An overweight...

1920s, Halton's thinning hair, rimless glasses, stern-looking face and officious manner were also familiar to generations of American moviegoers. Whether...

novel The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Roosta is a much more officious, standoffish and antagonistic character than he appears in the radio series...

includes the satirical lines "Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive". Although Asimov pins the creation of the Three Laws on...

(vs. actus iuridicus). falsus procurator fake agent Agent de son tort, officious agent fideicommissum entrusting to (a person's) good faith. Testamentary...

think this referee has been altogether too involved in the fight. Too officious". Drakulich struck again in the ninth round, this time taking a point...

catch-phrase put that light out!. The BBC sitcom "Dad's Army" includes an officious and disliked Warden. Ellis, Mark. "10 facts about crime on the home front...

Committee, 2012. Member, All Progressive Congress Merger Committee, 2013. Ex-Officious Member, All Progressives Congress Interim Management Committee (2013 –...

is anything but normal. His efforts are impeded by the arrival of an officious neighbour, and then the rather eccentric murderer herself arrives to try...

Illinois (1938–1939). In Hollywood, Gaines frequently played professional or officious types in supporting roles. He was often seen in authoritarian roles as...

a third division followed in 1977. However, the league still remained officious and refused to participate in the formation of the Alliance Premier League...

Robert Pascoe, the style of language used in Il Giornale Italiano was "officious and uncompromisingly 'pure'… Dialects were…dismissed as obsolescent by...

at last express her desires against the scourge of well-meaning, but officious men in her newsroom, and realise the power that once ebbed away has crashed...

about the incident. The historian Jeremy Black sees Bond's colleague, the officious Captain Sender, as the antithesis of Bond and an echo of Colonel Schreiber...

original on 28 December 2007. Retrieved 1 January 2008. "ESPNcricinfo – Officious officialdom". ESPNcricinfo. Archived from the original on 15 August 2010...

sitcom Trollied. From April 2013 until November 2015, Enright appeared as officious job centre worker Angela Bromford in the ITV2 comedy series The Job Lot...

the naval battle it commemorates, with elements of humour including the officious pose and behaviour of one of the dogs, who apes Graham's official position...

miners had various grievances, chiefly the cost of mining permits and the officious way the system was enforced. Tensions began in 1851, with the introduction...

of the Metro thought that Edna is best known for "her sharp lines, her officious hat and her love for her dogs Batley and Tootsie". He liked her friendship...

themselves mentioned in print. Peter writes a flattering piece on his officious science teacher Mr. Price (Milton Parsons), hoping it will help him gain...

Suitcase" for the numerous leather patches on his uniform. Suitcase is an officious peacetime officer with no field experience. He is removed when General...

this family: Durazzo in Albania, famed for Cicero's exile, who met with officious support there, is known as the ancestral birthplace of this House. Migrating...

tales he is the main antagonist of the eponymous hero within the Abbey: officious and ambitious, he feels existentially threatened by Cadfael, whose "gnarled...

appearance, but docile indeed: great lovers of the sciences, subtle, officious to the wise, and enemies of the foolish and ignorant. Their wives and...

Magdalene College, the novelist A. C. Benson, borrowed Gretton's name for an officious college dean in his novel Watersprings. "Gretton, William (GRTN754W)"...

blow up the chemistry lab, but Dobie is spared expulsion because the officious English professor Pomfritt (Hans Conried) is misled to believe that the...

friendly towards Sharpe, a reasonable and amiable man if occasionally overly officious. He grants parole to Philippe Leroux, who poses as a French captain. Sharpe...

(first name)". Kevan Gosper Lord Gosper A reference to Gosper's overly officious and self-righteous nature when it comes to matters concerning sport, particularly...

character is sympathetic, and it is made clear that he is not merely an officious bureaucrat, but a good-hearted person who is sympathetic to the FBI team...

of the Keepers in Thief: Deadly Shadows. His leadership quickly proves officious, bureaucratic, and secretive, and Garrett quickly learns to dislike him...

socialism. American bureaucracy grows as luxuriantly and behaves as officiously as any other." Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky had proposed the election...

ubiquitous enemy. He goes on patrol, sweating with fear; endures leeches, officious paper-pushers, a thieving orang-utan. He sees friends maimed and mashed;...

People almost all indeed agree to abhorr him, as he has none of that officious & cordial Manner which is universally required by them – nor any Skill...

the post was abolished. Horace Walpole called him "the lowest and most officious of the Court-tools". Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage...

last morning alive, where she has to put up with her overbearing and officious supervisor Dolores Herbig. At the Lass' household, the family prepares...

criminologist called in to deal with the forensic evidence, who informs the officious Inspector that "common sense is all you need" to work out it is in fact...

personality. The clash between the relaxed man of action (Bond) and an officious colleague was repeated in the 1962 short story "The Living Daylights"...

well as a brick jail above ground." Some jails may have been tidy and officious operations, but many or most were not. Henry Bibb described one jail where...

Balls," a kung-fu obsessed buffoon, Guangrong and his men give themselves officious sounding military titles. As events spiral out of control, a confrontation...

"Checklist" Lee Wilton Richard Phelan 15 November 2016 512 Bitzer's over-officious management style becomes too much for the sheep who decide it's time for...

suddenly erupt into riotous behaviour. Other roles were as a strict, officious and prissy person in an authority role. Hawtrey's characters were often...

characters of similar styles: prissy, polite, elegant, highly energetic, often officious, fastidious, somewhat nervous, prone to becoming flustered but essentially...

often Donald Duck, one of his antagonists; otherwise it is typically an officious park ranger voiced by Bill Thompson. The ranger's name was never identified...

modify, nonofficial, office, official, officiant, officiary, officiate, officious, olfaction, omnificence, omnificent, parfait, perfect, perfecta, perfectibility...

willing to bring in non-party people as part of his effort to curb officiousness by cadres. Other leaders, such as Liu Shaoqi, opposed "rectifying" the...

Stewart's performance as '...the glossiest possible portrayal of liberal officiousness and the cynical abyss her wokeness teeters into when the chips are down...

runs out of the village into the night one evening. Bunty McMustard: An officious Yellow. Imogen Fandango: A low-level Purple who is in love with Dorian...

attorneys, bankers and minor bureaucrats, often warm-hearted, but frequently officious or snooping. Hayden worked both onstage and in films, and with his wife...

Chatfield Ronnie Taylor 26 March 1979 (1979-03-26) Peter's caught up in the officiousness of trade unionism when a repair man at his firm spots him, a white collared...

and comes off like some straitlaced schoolmarm, who alternates between officious behavior and mild irritation toward any naysayers." He wrote that the...

crashes when a control cable severs. His soul is retrieved by 7013, an officious angel who assumed that Joe could not have survived. Joe's manager, Max...

poor, and the gang was often at odds with snobbish or rich children, officious adults, parents, and other such adversaries. Although the gang members...

Asher's shift at the campus co-op store and comes into conflict with her officious boss. Meanwhile, Craig discovers bubble tea. 5 5 "Extension Quest" 25...

moving to Palestine.(He says this in the book as well.) Werner Beck – an officious little man whose main role was to seduce Aaron and Natalie into trusting...

independent feature film Children of God. In 2023, he recurred as a comedic officious butler “Sebastian” at “Snickering Mansion” in Disney's comedic anthology...

Goths, Magoths, straw-chewing law clerks, usurious grinches, old or officious judges, and burners of heretics. When the members are defined positively...

Judah ha-Nasi (known as "Rabbi"), he seems at times to have been too officious in his bearing toward the members of the rabbinical college. Thus, when...

miners had various grievances, chiefly the cost of mining permits and the officious way the system was enforced. There was an armed uprising in Ballarat where...

Although generally civil with Captain Mainwaring and his men, he is an officious and somewhat pompous individual, and Hodges tends to use him to try and...

Lionne's elite salon. Feraud is appalled and infuriated at d'Hubert's officious intrusion. When he discovers he is being placed under house arrest, d'Hubert...

his supervisor George (Shearsmith), the gossipy Liz (Horrocks) and the officious Joanne (Amuka-Bird). Andy is later joined by Michael (Way). Vilma Hollingbery...

1848: War Eagle 1849: Collingwood 1850: Flatcatcher 1851: The Moor 1852: Officious 1853: Ariosto 1854: Crosslanes 1855: Coroner 1856: Spindle 1857: The Early...

the Irish authorities (who were not consulted in the matter); to the officiousness of Robert Walpole in defending the patent; and to the high-handed way...

treated sympathetically, while those who sought his indictment are shown as officious and vindictive.[citation needed] Prince of the City at Box Office Mojo...

Victorian goldfields. Gold miners protested the cost of mining permits, the officious way the colonial authorities enforced the system, and other grievances...

Space (1955), Assistant Station Announcer (uncredited) Houdini (1953), Officious Man (uncredited) The Admiral Was a Lady (1950), Benny The White Tower...

uncertainty as to the materials upon which the court must proceed.... [On the "officious bystander" test] it might seem that the parties themselves have become...

act as the mock villains, and there is a neat cameo by Jack May as an officious sportsmaster who reacts without a flicker of surprise or interest to Sammy's...

authority figure (usually played by Cleese), which are used to parody the officious side of the British establishment by having the professional employed...

as a man could be in his profession". Wisden 1958, Obituaries in 1957 Officious officialdom, ESPN Cricinfo, 22 August 2006 "Immovable object, irresistible...

fact, slowed the advancement of their cause by their "ultraism and officiousness". His main concern was that their methods disrupted the democratic process...

London.. Mr Norman Potter (Portrayed by Deryck Guyler). The pedantic and officious school caretaker. His speech is peppered with malapropisms. He claimed...

stay with the Mildews. Ivy is terrified of mice. General Marchmouse - An officious though good-hearted recently retired officer of the mouse army. Official...

of life as an adventure. Penny often runs afoul of Waters, an overly officious apartment employee, who tries to keep her out of places in the building...

MacDonald, often referred to by his wife and daughter as "Daddy". An officious bureaucrat with the local council, buttoned-down Reg lived a regimented...

despair, or bug-eyed fear. As a law enforcement officer, Barney is overly officious and insistent on doing things "by the book" to the point of absurdity...

Questions Murder Mystery (1950) – John Grimshaw The Blue Lamp (1950) – Officious Man (uncredited) The Astonished Heart (1950) – Mr. Bowman The Lavender...

more on the prisoners or inmates, rather than the prison staff led by officious governor Faye Boswell, played by Googie Withers, who was even approached...

Lydia for granted. Milicent the Militant (voiced by April Winchell) is an officious army woman who is very no-nonsense and narrow-minded when it comes to...

emphasized concern for the average soldier and minimized ceremonies and officious discipline, earned him the nickname of "Uncle Joe." Just prior to the...

Economics (25 pounds paid monthly in arrears). He may have been somewhat officious, since a comment about him stated “…his is a deserving case; he is a clever...

friends set off in the rocket for Library Planet. Byron the Librarian, an officious ostrich, is in charge of recording all new comets, which are named after...

with silk gloves: they are represented as bureaucratic, slow-witted and officious. The Nicaraguans are represented as a pompous military dictatorship, which...

Negotiorum gestio Promissory estoppel Restitution and unjust enrichment Officious intermeddler See for example Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Rambo v...

sentence for killing Neo, because according to Anandan, Dr Phang was a "very officious" psychiatrist who was convinced that Chee should receive a life term or...

humanoids, described as "not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous". They originate from Vogsphere, where they used surgery rather...

Salesman God Rae Allen – Fortune Teller God Christy Carlson Romano – Officious Hall Monitor God Mike Starr – Big Tough Guy God Sonya Eddy – Female Custodian...

clear the debris from the rocket using antiquated floating cranes. The officious Controller dismisses Brains' suggestion of calling International Rescue...

Carlyle as "grand but not pretentious; wonderfully efficient without any officious coldness; associated with stately, older names but home to a young, chic...

characters usually includes their baby, a hungry crocodile, a clown, an officious policeman, and a prop string of sausages. The devil and the generic hangman...

for a fashionable young man, a dandy, while "Mungo" was a name of an officious slave from the 1769 comic opera The Padlock by Isaac Bickerstaffe. In...

thesis). University of Southern California. Naganawa, Norihiro (2023). "Officious Aliens: Tatars' Involvement in the Central Asian Revolution, 1919–21"...

modify, nonofficial, office, official, officiant, officiary, officiate, officious, olfaction, omnificence, omnificent, parfait, perfect, perfecta, perfectibility...

connote one who lived well, thus in colloquial English an important or officious person. On long-distance journeys such as for trade the "muckamuck" of...

has not met his annual quota with the British Guild of Assassins. His officious boss, Harvey, sets him a deadline that forces Leslie to resort to desperate...

mother-in-law, with antlers on her helmet. The Tax Collector: The King's officious emissary. In a running gag, he occasionally shows up accompanied by a...

transferred from being an IAB officer to the precinct captain after the officious Captain Lou Zerola (Bradford English) transferred to precinct maintenance...

sound-and-light show for Waterloo bicentenary". "Portable loos and Belgian officiousness: When 'war' breaks out at the Battle of Waterloo, 2015, The Telegraph"...

services out of the public Treasury are not expected to take an active or officious part in attempts to influence the minds or votes of others, such conduct...

litigant, correspondent to the newspapers and advertiser. His official and officious escapades were mockingly reported in the local paper. Robert O'Hara Burke...

Levy protested a call by Terzian by screaming "Hey Armen! Hey you over-officious jerk!". The sound bite has been a staple of NFL Films highlights of coaches...

Watson. But he proved his versatility by playing professional men and officious types: military officers, hotel managers, detectives, carnival barkers...

[citation needed] Fokker's own account of the D.VIII places the blame on officious German Air Force inspectors requiring an ill-conceived design change....

Little Pony and Friends – Additional Voices Phantom 2040 – Biot, GP Biot, Officious Stringer, Commander Superman - Catcher Henchman (in "Triple-Play") The...

paying "guest" at No. 3 Pomander Walk. The Hon. Caroline Thring is an officious do-gooder, the heiress whom Baron Otford wants for his son. Bit players:...

Didymus speaks in Elizabethan English. Goelz described the character as "officious, but not all that cognizant of the big picture", with "the sense that...

Knickerbocker, an old-fashioned Dutch New Yorker in Irvin's satire of chatty and officious logistical history, made "Knickerbocker" a bye-word for quaint Dutch-descended...

peculiar dialect, sings songs in yet a third, and attempts to emulate officious high-class dialect when he dictates petitions to the local government...

But thankfully for Suzy, a major distraction comes looming when an odd, officious little man turns up and starts poking around the apartments asking questions...

their visit to Dunedin. Despite being several times pushed back by an "officious" policeman, she was brought forward by his superior and the royal party...

Perera achieves rare record". Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 February 2019. Cricinfo. "Officious officialdom". Retrieved 22 January 2008. Arthur Fagg at Cricinfo...

approach that cricket historian Gideon Haigh has called "increasingly officious and liverish". He was replaced by Keith Johnson, the New South Wales delegate...

restitutionary relief should be denied if the benefit was conferred officiously, or if liability would amount to a hardship for the recipient of the...

to his head. He is an uncouth and coarse man, at times as pompous and officious as his chief rival Captain Mainwaring, and delights in antagonising the...

the minds of criminals, and he spends much of the film consulting an officious imaginary version of himself for the perfect scheme to rid himself of...

Morrison observed the growing tensions in the region. Noting the "officiousness and tyranny" of the Chinese mandarins as being hard to bear, Morrison...

implied about him in the stories, that he's a brilliant but bloated, officious bureaucrat. Remember, it's Sherlock who describes him and Sherlock is...

people may be permitted to deal how and with whom they choose without the officious interference of the state; and my opinion will not be shaken even though...

called it a complete work of reference, but noted that the product had an officious air to it, being made by "Drillo's own people". Asker og Bærums Budstikke...

attained and adhered to". The novel concerns the tension between the officious inspectors and the drivers themselves who aim to arrive early. The review...

Austrian government have arranged a secret deal with the Swiss, but an officious Austrian customs officer is unaware of this and arrests the Swiss representatives...

in form and colour. But, alas, while Hamdi Beg was at lunch, the over-officious Arab workmen overturned it and spilled all the precious fluid on the sand...

Decalogue's" couplet on murder, "Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive:" is often quoted – usually out of context – in debates...

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unsuccessfully tries to convince the man to return to his room. Dunnigan's officious chief dismisses him with contempt. The man on the ledge refuses to speak...

proficient in tactile sign communication: "A pregnant example of the officious nature of the Touch in supplying the defect or temporall incapacity of...

he is taken to an area for suicides. There, Liliom is questioned by an officious commissioner who looks exactly like a police commissioner that Lilom reported...

thought about the proposed implication. The imaginary conversation with an officious bystander in Shirlaw v Southern Foundries (1926) Ltd [1939] 2 KB 206,...

Professional Wrestler (BA 2005) Brian Joseph Dunn - Bishop of Antigonish, ex-officious Chancellor of St. Francis Xavier University (BA 1976, M.Div. 1979) Matt...

“the decapitation appears to have been a most unwarranted piece of officiousness and excess of authority on the part of the local Coroner, and is very...

Legerdemain (b. 1846): winner of the Cesarewitch Handicap and Manchester Cup Officious (b. 1847): winner of the Queen Ann Stakes Windhound (b. 1847): useful...

familiar faces, like that of Allan Cuthbertson, playing an unpleasantly officious policeman, and Nigel Patrick fits comfortably into the role of the thwarted...

other countries. While questioning airport workers they focus on the officious FAA Inspector, Duane Winslow (Brad Renfro) and his bullying cousin Art...

against those who, for an improper motive, often described as wanton or officious intermeddling, become involved with disputes (litigation) of others in...

recalled and placed under rival Colonel Groat of the 28th Hussars and his officious adjutant, Major Mercer. A rift develops between the three friends after...

of the well, and the excellence of the water it contains: But if some officious person puts a light into it, it will appear to be both very shallow and...

of Christian Freedom?" (an examination of pluralism in two papers); "Officiously to Keep Alive" (a two-part examination of euthanasia); "Demons and the...

retranslation, however, is the heavy-handed imagery of Haydn's sincere, if officious, patron. Gone is the bloom of Thomson's original." Olleson calls the English...

"You can't park 'ere, mate", was a Goon in-joke that took a swipe at officious BBC commissionaires. (Sellers used a similar voice for trade union leader...

despite opposition from the head teacher Mr Cromwell, the fastidious and officious school caretaker Mr Potter, snobbish teacher Miss Ewell and the world-weary...

Thora are looking after their baby grandson and Thora is being somewhat officious to little Andrew's needs, much to Fred's discomfort. 6 "The Business Dinner"...

appears at a provincial bank. Bank manager Harry Fordyce is a cold, officious man who treats his employees with disdain, but is revealed to care a great...

an anti-English master, and in 1699 he was rewarded with £12 for his officious "saving so much of the bloody pickle which drained from the casks and...

are lost but Helen, Rex, and Ole Hanson (Betz), a sailor who becomes officious. Ole later falls overboard in a fight with Rex. Finally they are rescued...

Billy Budd minced; his Wozzeck plodded; his Beckmesser scurried like an officious beetle; his Falstaff had a pigeon-toed waddle." Evans was knighted in...

same monicker if he'd sold shoes." According to Cuneo, "He was usually officious and always bursting with his own importance, but he was flamboyantly agreeable...

Chénier might have been overlooked but for the well-meant, indignant officiousness of his father.[clarification needed] Marie-Joseph tried, but failed...

spiritual pride is the source of much of the novel's humour, as when an officious community member lets Dora know that she has inadvertently broken a rule...

Pauline usually resorts to violence to secure the upper hand. Ross seems officious and does not appear to have any close friends or family – when Pauline...

powers against him. It's memorial day in North Col. Syndia, the most officious member of the ruling Triumvirate, is giving her address. With everyone...

commentators borrowed the line, "Thou shalt not kill but needst not strive, officiously, to keep another alive." (Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)) in support...

Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995. Yahoo!...

introduced an entire sub-culture of fictitious dance leagues, and an officious governing body for the sport of clog dancing. The Cloggies (especially...

of the colonies on the southern borders of the United States against "officious interference" when chance drove American vessels into British jurisdiction...

misunderstanding causes Terry to doubt he's the right boat to lead the fleet. An officious new tug, Doug, is his replacement. Sydney has to find a way to help Terry...

be satisfied. Fifthly, if one approaches the issue by reference to the officious bystander, it is "vital to formulate the question to be posed by [him]...

not in breach of its obligations. Applying the business efficacy or the officious bystander test would not result in the term’s implication, but asking...

government. Much information which he suspected was sent to him by over-officious and malignant people, was found in his cupboards after his death, unopened...

Southern Foundries (1926) Ltd [1939] 2 KB 206 – in which he defined the "officious bystander test" for implied contractual terms. Salisbury (Marquess) v...

Sister Irma, intrigues and delights Smith. In his enthusiasm, he pens an officious and patronizing letter of encouragement to the woman. Smith's intervention...

Oberlin residents, describing them as “rude, obnoxious, and indolent” or “officious and detestable.” Ultimately, the residents succeeded in dissociating the...

everything possible to ruin the boyfriend's life. Francis encounters the officious Mrs. Wrightson on the commuter train platform. She is a leading figure...

meeting would have been peaceful had it not been "interfered with by the officious agents of authority". The 1820s saw Coke speak far less; firstly, because...

for, without periphrasis or wordy anguish, without circumlocution of officious and obtrusive, and therefore, artificial grief; the mourner gives sorrow...

"Nederlandsch" during the 17th century, it always remained a somewhat officious, literary and scholarly term among the general populace and steadily started...

served and came to greatly dislike, as the model for the stuttering, officious Lieutenant George Rowcliff in the Nero Wolfe series of novels. "Rowcliff...

In The Bloody Ground, the fourth volume of the Starbuck Chronicles, an officious Confederate Army officer surveying the ground at Sharpsburg, suggests...

inherent risks. The first is the U.S. Coast Guard, led by the irritatingly officious Captain Moseley, who patrols these waters. Moseley and the Coast Guard...

banner reads: "THE WHITE HOUSE" (and then in smaller print underneath) "OFFICIOUS WEBSITE OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH". Additionally, a spoof of the seal...

Close Combat, where he got Pickering and Billy Dunn out of a jam with an officious colonel at Pensacola by having them appear at a morale-boosting formation...

organised by SAC offers students the much needed break from the busy, officious and monotonous schedule of law school. The SAC caters to diverse student...

actual passengers [i.e. "the right-thinking member of society," "the officious bystander," "the reasonable parent," "the reasonable landlord," "the fair-minded...

Your movements also should have respect to the time for them. ... Officiousness in sacrifices is called irreverence; ceremonies when burdensome lead...

girl exposed to Bubonic plague brings a clash between Dr. Gannon and an officious public health officer. Kathleen Lloyd, Larry Blyden, Anthony Caruso, and...

history site says the name is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle", but some remember that in its early days (mid-1990s), when Yahoo...

official welcoming party at the visit of aviator Charles Lindbergh. The officious character Police Officer Adolphus in the 1939 novel Star Spangled Virgin...

Moorcock. The presiding judge created a quaint concept of an officious bystander; if the officious bystander were to propose a term and both the parties would...

saying; so that, if, while the parties were making their bargain, an officious bystander were to suggest some express provision for it in their agreement...

if not deliberately adding to the sense of congestion, at least not officiously striving to relieve it. For there is now a glorious probability that...

girl on the threshold of womanhood," was a victim of unfair police officiousness, and declared to parliament that "the persecution of Miss Weitzel will...

among the players because of an approach that Haigh called "increasingly officious and liverish". Led by Bradman—widely regarded as the greatest batsman...

McAuslan is charged with disobedience of a direct order by a newly promoted, officious corporal. A man of principle, McAuslan believes that being ordered to...

requirements, because as Lord Browne-Wilkinson said, equity "will not strive officiously to defeat a gift". Although trusts do not, generally, require any formality...

that it will emerge from this state of infancy in which an anxious and officious government attempts to keep the people". All distinctions affecting the...

position to pursue a career in real estate and is replaced by overly officious corporate secretary Arlene Hoffman (Ruth Manning). Katey Sagal appears...

in form and colour. But, alas, while Hamdi Beg was at lunch, the over-officious Arab workmen overturned it and spilled all the precious fluid on the sand...

feeling, and many land disputes." He suggested this was due to over-officiousness on the part of the Rakahanga Island Council. The New Zealand Government...

defeat". The Northern Echo. 6 January 2001. Retrieved 17 December 2019. "Officious referee spreads yellow peril as Liverpool take point from Sunderland"...

case, but now they are not only wanted by the gangsters, but also by the officious detective Mortensen. After a long car chase and a lucky escape, they enroll...

2: Sir Walter discusses the situation with his kinsmen, including his officious cousin Dickie o' Dryhope, and it is resolved they should enrich themselves...

and arbitrary instructions to 'move on', delivered in the manner of an officious policeman." Geddes worked with his son-in-law, the architect Frank Mears...

the Manuscriptorium. She is somewhat stubborn, strict and annoyingly officious and is not on good terms with Marcia. She is very strict about time and...

harmony with this is a link between the name and Green's bearing: "very officious..., evidently conscious of his own great importance in the enterprise"...

thumb of Wall Street. Wilson sensed he was jeopardized by Harvey's officiousness and conservatism, while Harvey was alarmed by Wilson's move to the left...

equity will not aid a volunteer and the maxim that it will not strive officiously to defeat a gift. It seems to me that if equity refuses to aid Harold...

James Murphy, for committing a violent Assault on his person; and as some officious person has falsely stated the Report to you, in justice to myself and...

horse's name, Barbary, same name he cried in his sleep. Brother Jerome is officious. Meriet jumps on Jerome and nearly strangles him, before Cadfael restrains...

at a pit-stop, pent-up pressure blew off the radiator cap, which the officious stewards deemed an illegal breakage of the security seals and controversially...

Resistance. He would later note that his reaction against the disgraceful, officious manner of French collaborators had an impact on his approach to writing...

conditions it may be that those conditions ought to be implied. If the officious bystander had asked them whether they had intended to leave out the conditions...

Greenhill Farm was then owned by Bailie Finnie, an unpopular man, due to his officious handling of the radical disturbances of the time. In 1829, one William...

sentinels and customs officers were encouraged to exaggerate their officiousness in dealing with foreign vessels bound for the same destination". Williams...

she'll achieve it .... She's not necessarily Robo Nurse. While she may be officious, she's caring towards patients, so there are lots of elements to her,...

troupe of actors to perform in it. Stephan Kreiss is Mr Keller, the officious Teutonic embalmer, obsessed with organ donor cards. Aitor Basauri is Alfredo...

and subjective formulation of the implied term test, asking like an "officious bystander" what the parties "would have contracted for" if they had applied...

of Bengal. On Hedges' arrival at Hooghly, Charnock found him to be an officious neophyte. The rivalry between the Company's two most senior servants in...

Sympathy for the Family – Nothing Known of the Will – Coroner Messemer's Officiousness". New York Times. December 10, 1885. Retrieved August 20, 2011. Chambers...

of the century. Like many other fussy individuals affected with over-officiousness and chronic unrest of mind, who are continually trying to change the...

very agreeable impression. Soon however he began to make himself very officious, interfering in questions not appropriately connected with his Legation...

only one candidate, officially to enforce the sex parity principle, officiously to evict lists from an Islamist party. This 'ISLAM' party's leader had...

be rebuilt. Again they drive to a remote area where they are met by an officious young man named Iida, who tries very hard to impress the importance of...

is prevented from marching in a reunion parade with his buddies by his officious daughter-in-law, on grounds that he is too old and weak to march. He is...

the regional leadership has been exercised through vulgar and vain officiousness, which not only compromises you as president but turns off possible...

university, including Conyers Middleton and Thomas Gooch, who found him officious. Laughton's targets included Stourbridge fair and coffee houses. He also...

the parties" as interpreted by a neutral, reasonable third party – the "officious bystander" test) BP Refinery (Westernport) Pty Ltd v Shire of Hastings...

ceremony taking place on the day in question. The courts often deploy the officious-bystander test to determine whether or not a contract contains a tacit...

8.87 Max returns to work and soon gets everyone offside by being over officious. A woman smuggles her lover out of a window when her husband comes home...

book not only with interest but with approval, and He would say to any officious disciples who took exception to parts of it, “Forbid him not; he that...

'headless' institution with no president and "The Rev. U. B. Blode" as an officious, ambitious little man, nailing signs on everything and every person declaring...

convinced "it was a trumped-up charge" and the arrest had been "mere officiousness on the part of Sub-Inspector Elliott". On 17 November a "great crowd"...

largely negative and described by one historian as 'based on flattery, officiousness and subservience' to James' 'exalted conception of prerogative'. Melfort's...

security measures, following a number of incidents and escape attempts. His officious attitude and the harsh regimes he introduces antagonise both inmates,...

2018. Douglas Martin (April 12, 2000). "Larry Linville, TV Actor, 60; Officious Major of 'M*A*S*H'". The New York Times. p. A 29. Retrieved November 28...

he retorted: "I will make it a fashion". Chamberlain also noted the officiousness of James, who liked to take a personal interest in scandals and court...