Word: crutching
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...with the tolerant anarchy of their natural environment. But SIN slathers on too many platitudes, using them with a complacency that allows the satire to go limp. When they can't figure out how to skew it for laughs, Ravenal and Zippel tend to lean on cliche as a crutch, until you begin doubting whether they're aware of the difference between satirizing convention and just imitating...
Break the crutch, take off the poultice...
...Wash Pinocchio group, feels that the cleaning up has not gone far enough. He notes that at least one uneuphemized edition of Pinocchio, printed in 1967, is still on sale. He complains that illustrations of the cat wearing opaque eyeglasses and the fox struggling along on a crutch "give the impression of the abjectness of disability and stress discrimination against disabled unfortunates." The group's campaign has drawn a public apology for "thoughtlessness" from the major Japanese publisher of the children's classic, along with promises to withdraw at least four editions...
Alimentary evangelism had many well-known preachers. In the mid-1800s the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and his sisters Catherine and Harriet sermonized against bread made from bleached flour. "What had been the staff of life for countless ages," said Beecher, "had become a weak crutch." Bad morals went with a bad diet, according to Mrs. Horace Mann, who in 1861 published her cookbook Christianity in the Kitchen. A fruitful wedding of faith, faddism and free enterprise was not long in coming. As early as 1866, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, manager of a Battle Creek sanatorium, was prescribing generous doses...
...moment, a massive "non-event." Commissions draw less attention from customers in strong markets, when heavy trading generates healthy incomes for brokers. More significant, Wall Street is tougher and more efficient than it was a few years ago, when poor market conditions heightened the dread of losing the crutch of fixed commissions. In the early '70s, for example, many sloppily managed firms were driven out of business because they were not automated enough to handle swelling trading volume. There followed destructive "back office" paper jams, missing stock certificates and theft. In recent weeks, firms have easily shouldered daily trading...