Word: balderdash
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...nudes, any more than some feminists do today. These figures, splayed under the inquisitorial electric light and the downward gaze of the artist, are the mainstay of his work, and the fierceness with which they reject the softening conventions of the "studio nude" has provoked a bumper crop of balderdash about Freud's supposed misogyny and sexism. (Freud's own riposte, in a recent interview, was terse: "I think the idea of misogyny is a stimulant to feminists, and it's rather like anti-Semites looking for Jewish noses everywhere...
...executive board members, who in a nearly unprecedented emergency session voted to extend the deadline, countered that the move was fair and necessary. Second--year Law student Raul Perez, the board's administrative vice president and election commissioner, called the accusations "paranoid balderdash...
...have tainted the evidence, but admitting that would inconvenience powerful people, so injustice prevails. Much of the dialogue is barely digested statistics; the silliest, mouthed by a reformist young black woman, argues that essentially every male under 30 is a criminal, so no one should be prosecuted. Despite such balderdash, the storytelling is intense and the acting splendid, especially by Robert Patterson as the prisoner...
...Golly, Michael, I can tell you every darned thing you want to know. That Bush is pure balderdash. We can lick him up like a tadpole out of the water. Hey, and let's not forget about doing it for the other fella...
...hide behind the defense that this was the best you could unearth. And if you, yourself, are convinced that this was the best undergraduate speech you had to pick, I can only hope that you would retire from this responsibility in favor of someone who can distinguish brilliance from balderdash...