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In “Sherlock & Daughter,” Thewlis’ cranky, clipped performance spells out why so few venture to peel back the tweedy front he places between himself and everyone else.

But it’s clear that the phenomenon is not just the tweedy concern of linguists.

But his tweedy and serenely skeptical Beckett double pointedly inquires, “Whose forgiveness do you need the most?”

Now I was on one of his tweedy shoulders.

Star professors were either master thinkers introducing new rigor and glamour into a tweedy profession gone stale, or theory-addled tenured radicals taking a hatchet to the masterpieces of Western culture.