Gilbertian

These complications were getting exceedingly Gilbertian in character.

This last is on the old lines of "palmy-day" burlesque, and has not much in it that is characteristically Gilbertian.

In the dialogue, however, one comes across an occasional passage which strikes one as quite Gilbertian in its cynicism.

Of him the great Gilbertian generalisation is untrue; he was not born either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative.

His plays are full of modern odds and ends, and in form are anything from the Robertsonian comedy to the Gilbertian extravaganza.