Word: opinionatedness
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Sir Thomas Beecham, explosively opinionated conductor of the London Philharmonic, exploded again, this time not with a bang but a phfft. In May, recently home from a U.S. tour, he had called Hollywood "a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial." Now he qualified his damnation...
In prewar France, it was said that "every French journalist is for sale," and the saying was embarassingly close to the truth. The papers for which they wrote-rowdy, defamatory, opinionated and corrupt-hastened France's collapse. The Minister of Information in Paul Reynaud's 1940 Cabinet, powerful...
Said the prospectus: "It has been suggested that a mixture of many volatile temperaments would make the progress of such a venture anything but serene. If certain rules of the road are accepted, however, clashes of opinion can be channeled into the magazine, where they would be most rewardingly constructive...
Oldtime readers of the New Republic raised their eyebrows. For the first time in its 31 years, the opinionated weekly journal of opinion had daubed make-up on its sallow, paper-towel complexion, political cartoons on its restyled cover. Inside, it had jazzed up its austere format like a C.I.O...
"You can shut your mouth up and get out. You're so self-opinionated and so self-important."