Word: boorishnesses
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...argument that breaking wind is a form of free speech, and that the right to flatulence was protected, in theory if not in so many words, by the First Amendment. After listening patiently to both sides, the judge concluded that the unusual form of aggressive expression was "juvenile and boorish," but he could find no Oregon law prohibiting it. Case dismissed...
Hardly. As John Leo pointed out in U.S. News & World Report, the contingent featured many non-Irish gay militants wearing familiar trademarks of gay radicalism like pearls, motorcycle jackets and T-shirts reading "QUEER BOY." Joined by Mayor David Dinkins, the group was welcomed with a boorish display of upraised fingers, loud epithets and one full can of beer...
...Barcelona seeks international celebrity in playing host to the 1992 Summer Olympics, the smoldering controversy over the Sagrada Familia has flared anew. Last summer 200 Barcelona artists and intellectuals issued statements deriding new sculptures for the church by Catalan artist Josep Maria Subirachs as "boorish" and "kitsch." Protesters circled the church in a candlelight procession. Religious objections have also arisen: traditionalists are holding monthly prayer sessions, inveighing against the stark nudity of Subirachs' Christ...
...body-building days. The star has dismissed Leigh's contentions, saying, "I don't want to give a third-grade journalist any credibility." He can hardly be held responsible for his kin's sins; the other allegations suggest that he took the rough passage, common in males, from boorish youth to robust maturity...
...notion that the study of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim or Sigmund Freud (all "naughtily left-wing writers") is a waste of time, it is astonishingly boorish. Not only did their writings exert some influence on modern society, but Davis' discipline owes its existence and many of its directions to such writers...