Citations:Canadianly

English citations of Canadianly

Adverb: "in a Canadian way; in a manner characteristic of Canada or Canadians"

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• 1920, Berta Ruck, Sweethearts Unmet, Hodder & Stoughton (1920), page 270:

  There was a nervousness under that quick Canadianly-accented talk of his, as if he were working himself up to something.

• 1945, University of Toronto Quarterly, Volume 14, page 168:

  Apart from the crafts of Quebec, Canadian art, as the product of men bred in Canada, or at least Canadianly domesticated, emerges in the second half, indeed hardly before the last quarter, of the nineteenth century.

• 1989, Miriam Waddington, Apartment Seven: Essays Selected and New, Oxford University Press (1989), →ISBN, page 87:

  The resulting national character has never been better or more Canadianly described than by MacMechan: […]

• 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Little, Brown and Company (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  […] so that in a minute a burly bearded thoroughly Canadian figure in one of those Canadianly inevitable checked-flannel shirts appears out of the dim light in the shop's back room and wipes its mouth on first one sleeve then the other […]

• 2002, George Elliott Clarke, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature, University of Toronto Press (2002), →ISBN, page 82:

  The only possible counterweight to this de facto dictatorship of influence is precisely the cultural nationalism that Gilroy, haphazardly and haplessly, both disparages and embraces, but that Borden, quietly, consistently - 'Canadianly' - employs.

• 2002, Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot, Simon & Schuster (2002), →ISBN, page 151:

  (Apparently, even having a favorite Mountie is an American trait. When I asked the twentieth commissioner of Mounties, Giuliano "Zach" Zaccardelli, who was his favorite RCMP commissioner in history, he answered Canadianly, "Every one of them has contributed tremendously to the legacy of the RCMP, and I hope that during my tenure I will be able to add some value to the legacy that those nineteen who came before me left for this organization.")

• 2003, Chris Gudgeon, The Naked Truth: The Untold Story of Sex in Canada, Greystone Books (2003), →ISBN, page 190:

  Even the military has gotten into the act, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexuality, a sharp contrast to the U.S.'s almost Canadianly obtuse don't-ask, don't-tell policy.

• 2004, Wayde Compton, Performance Bond, Arsenal Pulp Press (2004), →ISBN, page 132:

  None of the Canadians got it, but they smiled Canadianly.

• 2005, David Kamp, "Union's Due", Vanity Fair, 1 October 2005:

  Even after all these years, a dinner reservation at the Union Square Cafe summons daytime feelings of fizzy, mood-elevating anticipation: the waitstaff is just so nice - but not acontextually, Canadianly so - and the menu is broad enough in scope to include both comforting old favorites that date back to 1985 (such as the black-bean soup) and spur-of-the-moment dishes created by Michael Romano (who has been the chef since 1988) based on whatever looks good at the Union Square greenmarket.

• 2006, Katrina Onstad, How Happy to Be, McClelland & Steward (2007), →ISBN, page 106:

  The audience applauds Canadianly, which is to say with both indifference and awe, and not for very long.

• 2011, Adam Gopnik, Winter: Five Windows on the Season, House of Anansi Press (2011), →ISBN, page 161:

  Canadianly, they found a compromise that involved never actually having to choose, keeping a dual identity and playing occasionally for both sweaters.