Word: nabobs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...democracy, we need a few reality checkpoints at which we all crowd together, nabob and yahoo, and rub elbows and get a clue about who lives here other than us. The draft-board physical used to be such a checkpoint, where even a Rockefeller had to spread them and bend over, but that's gone, a casualty of Vietnam. The older generation that went through all those checkpoints--Central High, the cafeteria, the Army, the train station--those folks learned to stand in line and accept their place in the picture, and they learned decency and kindness. I can remember...
Stewart has collected a set of sobriquets just as she has Depression glass and vintage linens: nabob of nesting, for example, and doyenne of domesticity. And she has earned a reputation for being too perfect, a control freak and an overachiever, who while still in grammar school organized all the neighborhood kids' birthday parties. With her image and life so open, she has become ripe for parody and criticism. She is the subject of a recent scathing, unauthorized biography, Just Desserts. Stewart says she finds the criticism boring: "It's sexist, jealous and stupid, and it all comes from...
BUCHANAN HAS BECOME THE CHIEF nabob of negativism at a very critical time in our history. Scoffing at our country's effort to act affirmatively to assist those who are struggling to achieve the American Dream, whether their problems are racial, economic, educational or physical, is wrongheaded. Buchanan's insisting that we fence off our borders and isolate ourselves economically from the rest of the world is foolish demagoguery. America must remain committed to the welfare of its own citizens and continue to be a leader in world affairs. FRANCIS X. CONLON Honolulu...
...whole theater of a sitter's self-representation--from within. Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck and Reynolds had shown that; and Copley, in a smaller domain, knew it too. In 1769 he cemented his place in the upper crust of Massachusetts by marrying Susannah Clarke, daughter of a Tory merchant nabob who represented the East India Company's tea interests (it was his tea that was dumped in the harbor during the Boston Tea Party). This marriage put the Irish tobacconist's boy at the same level as his sitters, and commissions rained...
...style of William Safire, whose twice-weekly political commentary has adorned the New York Times op-ed page since 1973 and appears in more than 300 other papers. For cognoscenti, there were three surefire Safirific clues embedded in the quotation: 1) this former Richard Nixon speechwriter remains a nattering nabob of negativism (he also crafted lines for Spiro Agnew) about Mikhail Gorbachev's intentions; 2) Safire's forcefulness of expression and clarity of opinion, for he is not a columnist who seeks safety in mainstream musings; and 3) the wordplay that is Safire's trademark -- in this case, revamping Winston...