- apathy-inducing
Could it be that doing something about the boring stuff is, well, so boring as
to be apathy-inducing?
- jeerers
The pens of these lofty jeerers drip with universal indiscriminate malice
over good and bad people alike, with as much interest in the difference as
Jonathan Aitken's "sword of truth".
- loyal-ish
After a lifetime spent as a loyal-ish subject of your sister/daughter
and watching the family on telly doing whatever, one knows exactly what you look
like but has no idea what you sound like.
- workerish
While do-nothing conservatism is their mode, they enjoy extremism of any
complexion and excoriate the dreary toil of incremental improvement - bor-ring ,
sin-cere and social workerish.
- Nixonianism
He was a gracious tribune of the poor and dispossessed at a time when his party
had been taken over by Nixonianism. The division between Lindsay and
Nixon was not one of economic management. Lindsay was a classic welfarist. But
then Nixon was also a big spender whose presidency was marked by the greatest
extension of federal powers and government agencies since the days of FDR.
- fudge-packer
As the most famous gay man in Britain he was a cardboard cut-out figure, the
political Village People's Machiavelli, a parody of the gay man as the shifty
fudge-packer in the corner.
- e-voter
The e-voter survey showed online political advertising has some
unintended and potentially negative consequences.
- chubsters
After all, what better confection to turn the little piggies into proper porkers
than that which has transformed the nation's children into Europe's newly
crowned top chubsters?
- over-tested
While more tests might provide a better overall picture of the abilities of
potential students, we have to be very careful about the proliferation of exams
and tests. Students in secondary education are already over-tested.
- campus-visit
Westminster's open days feature presentations, campus tours and advice stalls,
while Bath Spa University College has post-application campus-visit days
following their main open day in May.
- office-fodder
The organisations I was talking to seemed to be in a state of chaos, or unable
to think beyond the narrowest boundaries. Almost every one had failed to reply,
lost my details, didn't want me or needed me only as unskilled office-fodder.
- psuedo-casually
Uneasily, I eye the other people flipping pseudo-casually through the
racks. The man beside me has a hungry look in his eye.
- anti-globalisation
The area around Porto Alegre, in fact, was the focus for violent protests
against biochemical giant Monsanto's genetically modified soya seeds this year.
Yet McDonald's has not attracted the same anti-globilisation resentment.
-
scenery-struck
Uncurried goats wander everywhere. It's picture-book territory, but Jamaica's
roads are so badly maintained that even the most scenery-struck driver
must concentrate on the task at hand.
- region-coded
And, unlike the audio CDs they superficially resemble, they are region-coded,
so forget about buying cheap davids from the US unless your player has been
specifically modified for multi-region capability.
- smut-fest
Teen smut-fest American Pie 2 is being screened on the internet two
weeks before it is due to hit cinema screens.
- screech-fuhrer
This is the brainchild of screech-fuhrer Perry Farrell, who's been much
taken with the recent flashmob fad, in which upwards of 200 people gather at an
appointed place to execute some pointless task.
- menstrual-products
Besides, the curriculum for that single hour of menstrual education is likely to
be provided by the menstrual-products industry itself .
- fuzzy-minded
Value judgments are politically inspired assertions. Literary theory is fine
provided you accept that it is all a game. Liberalism and humanism are
fuzzy-minded self-deception. His own brand of intellectual showmanship is
therefore the purest honesty.
- overtapped
But such artificially low charges maintain the fiction of cheap water and hide
the fact that supplies are under increasing threat as ground water supplies are
overtapped and rivers run dry .
- sockwear
But before reading any of Feeding Frenzy, it is advisable to consult the index,
which covers not only the usual 'people, places and things, but also ideas,
obsessions and my own irritating stylistic tics', so as to include 'tongues,
locking', matching socks and shoes, co-ordinated foot and sockwear', and
'snicker-snack, fateful, of psychosis'.
- product-hungry
The answer is that you get a bit of both, although the distinction between
bespoke collections and more apparently random gatherings, frequently made under
the aegis of product-hungry publishers at various (often posthumous)
points in a writer's career, is not a particularly reliable index to quality.
- half-pretending
At the time, I'd recently finished my second novel, and so I offered to stay
with my father while my mother had her operation. To steer clear of his pride,
she and I agreed to pretend that I was coming for her sake, not his. What's odd,
though, is that I was only half-pretending.
-
pyrrhically
My mother maintained that it was inconsiderate not to wear a hearing aid; my
father complained that other people lacked the consideration to "speak up". The
battle culminated pyrrhically, in his purchase of a hearing aid that he
then declined to wear.
- e-reader
E Ink, one of the two companies developing this "electronic paper", revealed a
prototype of a new lightweight e-reader, scheduled to go on sale in 2003.
Its creators say it will be only a centimetre thick, with a seven-inch diagonal
screen, and run on two AA batteries.
- English-schoolboy
Although some commentators still insist on treating his spanking fetish as if it
were a kinky diversion, a naughty bit of English-schoolboy vice, he was
engaged in far more than recreational play , as his use of the phrase 'anally
sadistic' indicates.
- tatteration
He smuggled cigarettes into the hospital, even though, as Lahr notes, he was
hooked up to enough oxygen to blow him and part of the ward into tatteration.