Word: manner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young don't create fashion, but they confirm and legitimize it. Older people must work harder to inhabit the fashion of the young, and in a deliberate manner. My transition to the stripe will come, for it must, but only in good time...
...tilting strongly in favor of the government. In 1996 an appeals court reversed a decision of hers and, after citing her hostility to the defendant's lawyer, took the rare step of ordering that a different judge take over the case. She is also known for a testy courtroom manner. Last Friday she threatened to jail Lewinsky lawyer William Ginsburg if he didn't do a better job of holding his tongue...
Strange? Certainly, but not in the same alienating manner that disturbed many viewers of Fargo. The lighthearted Big Lebowski dotes upon its ragtag hero and has a generous heart behind the veneer of its lowlife comic weirdness...
...Crimson disposed of Colgate for the second time on its home ice three months later. This time, in a much more convincing manner, the Crimson unleashed six goals on the Red Raiders en route to a 6-1 victory...
These phrases are important to us because they name some feature of the current political landscape. They tend to stop being useful after a month or two when people realize that they have been caught acting in some readily identifiable, even cliched manner. Think about the whole political correctness debate. As soon as the term caught on, and people could be accused of being politically correct, political correctness quieted down. Soon after, people stopped using the term as often. It seems like the best way to win a fight is to label your opponent's behavior and get everyone talking...