Tall and bald with a hearty laugh, the retired interior designer is neither monkish nor zealous.

WSJ: Unlikely NY scribe handwrites Good Book in 4 years

At Middle Temple Hall, where law students often dine, duck into Fountain Court with its monkish atmosphere.

BBC: A walking tour of Dickens��s London

The gesture takes on more meaning as the monkish Benedict steps down.

CNN: Benedict a pope aware of his flaws

There was a measure to the man in the hooded coat, old stooped body, face framed in monkish cloth, a history, a faded drama.

NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky

But Koetsu ended his days in dignified security, as the quasi-religious head of a community at Takagamine, near Kyoto, part artists' colony and part monkish village.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | The Subtle Magic of Koetsu

Though London was heavily damaged by the bombings of World War II, vestiges of the city's 1800s architecture survive in quaint pubs, spooky alleyways and monkish courtyards ringed with Georgian features.

BBC: A walking tour of Dickens��s London

It all felt slightly less aggressive than last season when we saw dark monkish hoods, black knit elbow-length fingerless gloves and mysterious wool tailoring with twill suits and leather jackets.

FORBES: Simon Spurr Proves You Don't Have To Wear Tweed In The Country

Working in tandem may mean checking their monkish credentials at the door, but for these two masters, designing as a duo may yet yield even better results than going it alone.

WSJ: The Architect and the Plantsman | Partnership

Ranged across the bottom are hundreds of small, monkish figures in robes and bearing gifts: a lotus here, a fan there, a sceptre, a letter, beads, scrolls or round pots of incense.

ECONOMIST: Murakami in the Middle East: Hundred-metre dash | The