Word: panderer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...absence; that is to say, he has practiced incredible restraint. In his reluctance to pull out all the stops, to make himself visible with amazing camera angles and special effects, he demonstrates how deeply he has thought about the film. He exercises great control over the movie, refusing to pander to his audience, to let them off the hook, or to push their buttons with facile tricks...
...same folk who had their high kultur now also have their high news. It is drier, more civilized and urbane--it does not pander to the passions, but engages the intellect...
...interestingly enough, they will have forfeited the opportunity to pander to their constituents in another, more tangible...
...democracy, people often vote in their immediate self-interests. In theory, election results capture the Popular Will--an aesthetic feature of democracy. However, the individual jealousies, fears, and prejudices of the uneducated many hardly form a valuable aggregate. Most often, politicians do not follow any Popular Will, but simply pander to various interests on specific issues, and wind up with a slew of contradictory policies that add up to less than zero...
...deficit dodge might have been acceptable by itself. But it was accompanied by a number of other retreats and conversions, which revived the lingering impression of Clinton as a "pander bear" who would say anything to get elected. His aides backed away from a promise to trim the White House staff 25%; plans to present an economic blueprint on Jan. 21 were postponed six weeks. After condemning as "callous" the Bush policy of turning back boatloads of Haitians, including those with valid asylum claims, Clinton had to reverse himself when he found out that as many as 10,000 Haitians...