Word: foisting
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...wrote that? Sir Thomas More. A knight, a saint, a humanist, a wit, a martyr and a man, famously, for all seasons. And yet a man so besotted by the idea of summer, evidently, that he would foist that season's worst weather off onto winter...
...easy being an ex-President: no more Air Force One, no more Hail to the Chief, only so many boring memoirs you can foist on the public, only so many celebrity golf tournaments you can play in. Russell P. Kramer (Jack Lemmon), a Republican, now has no one but himself on whom to practice fiscal responsibility: he steals the little shampoo bottles out of hotel rooms. Matt Douglas (James Garner), a Democrat, bravely carries on his party's tradition of sexual irresponsibility, but there's not much merriment in it. Mostly what these old rivals have going for them...
...increase. A miracle! Alternatively, a classic of free-lunch liberalism. People complained about the complexity and opacity of the President's 1,342-page plan. They missed the point. The very purpose of that complexity and opacity was to obscure the way regulation and employer mandates would foist the higher costs on private business and individuals (in the form of higher insurance premiums). It took a while for that part of the story to get out. When it did, the plan died a swift death...
...completely unacceptable. But those responsible for producing popular culture need to take a harder and more thoughtful look at what they are saying with their movies, music and art, and learn to recognize when one of their products is so morally bankrupt that it would be irresponsible to foist it upon society. Seven is such a product, and it is by no means the only...
Harvard is a terrible place to breed football coaches. Sure, there's that whole idea about "being the best" that Harvard likes to foist on its students and faculty, but when it comes to sports the university likes to stress the personal growth of the individual over winning. Wins and losses aren't as important as building the complete student-athlete. That's "the Harvard experience...