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The problem is that Pinero's play depends on the existence of a secure Trollopian world in which clerics are automatically revered: something hard to recapture today.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2012

Major, a keen Trollopian, once revealed, when I was interviewing him about a cricket book of his, that he had also attempted, but abandoned, a novel.

From The Guardian • Jan. 21, 2011

It is a Trollopian situation, as scientific panjandrums play politics with the skill and gusto of the Barchester Cathedral chapter contending over a vacant canonry.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he has been a dedicated Trollopian since his undergraduate days at Cambridge.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a great deal of Trollopian morality in the fate of these two men, the latter of whom "could not have said anything ill- natured if he had tried."

From Confessions and Criticisms by Hawthorne, Julian