Word: poseur
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some of his dinner companions the back of his hand. Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, he says, turned Canada 'into a people of whining, politically conformist welfare addicts' ... He describes the late Robert Maxwell, kleptocratic owner of the Daily Mirror and the New York Daily News, as 'an endomorphic ... poseur, fugitive and confidence trickster' ... [Black] is uncharacteristically cryptic about the future of newspaper publishing, noting simply that 'literacy and the printed word are not as out of fashion as many have feared...
...thing to do! Earlier this year, Bloc Party put out a sliced-and-diced “Silent Alarm,” Death From Above 1979 gave the thumbs-up to a supefluous retooling of their last jaunt, and now, everyone’s favorite genius-posing-as-a-poseur, Beck, has jumped on the remixwagon. The results are tepid, at best.“Guero” was unjustly derided. It was a grower. It had to be seen in all its aspects before it could be properly understood, and was shot down by the critical establishment (the ever...
...singer-songwriter tradition is particularly frustrating, as he exploits all of its rhetoric without achieving any of its art. His Nebraska never stank of cowdung, and his scrawny middle-class heartbreak is as trite as it is insincere. Fans of Bright Eyes should stop settling for less, ditch the poseur, and celebrate the genuinely talented songwriters this country has been producing for decades, from Woody Guthrie to Lou Barlow...
...Harvard students are too busy overachieving, the story goes, and, for most, finding a special lady is just impossible. If you find yourself stuck in the drink-up-and-hook-up lane, college can be a romantic wasteland. The drunk hook-up, after all, is the poster child of poseur romance. Besides all the obvious token emptiness, there’s the worst poseur romance move of them all: that uncomfortable “post-hook-up” thing, where some people just don’t know when’s when. This is only exacerbated...
...Quigley ’04) is starting to irritate members of the sophomore class and beyond, what with his gratuitous sunglass-wearing and endless yammering about his status as a “golden guitar god.” Sources close to Quigley note that he is a poseur...