And not just for some sort of airy-fairy self-help kind of reason.
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It was airy-fairy when our teacher said, 'Go to India and build a temple.
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" When Mr. Siegel recently approached a potential benefactor, the man dismissed the venture as "airy-fairy.
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It might sound "airy-fairy", but the ultimate aim was to achieve "communion" with the water, he said.
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There is structure available to shape this week's airy-fairy dreaminess, as well as some tough attitudes to manage.
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"This is not kind of hypothetical, airy-fairy, we guess, and then we guess again," Justice Elena Kagan said.
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He wants to cut any program that might seem emotional and airy-fairy, like the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Beyond that, the blame is aimed at airy-fairy liberals more concerned about climate change — often contested or derided — than about Americans trying to make their house payments.
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The orders were loud and clear: focus the rifle sights on the acid, discard all the "airy fairy bollocks," call in some chattering machines and an air strike of echo.
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The verdict: 7/10 While it all might seem a bit airy-fairy, there's scientific evidence to suggest some herbs and oils operate in the same way as Nicabate, meaning they suppress your nicotine cravings and replace cigarettes with something less harmful.
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"We are not having an airy-fairy, 'wave your wand' notion of getting billions or hundreds of billions of dollars new into the system by fighting against defense or fighting against the tax code," he said of his plan to make the health care system more efficient.
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A reviewer in The Age called it "a waste of viewing time". Another writer in that paper called it "stylised". The Sydney Morning Herald complained about Croyston's "airy fairy artsy farsty script".
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She was the writer of the Airy Fairy books. She had a long career as a primary school teacher before becoming a full-time writer for children. She shared her name with a young Welsh Baroness.
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Suleiman, 2003, p. 327. Another reason for his "negligible" impact, according to Suleiman, was al-Arsuzi's idea on the need to replace the traditional Arabic grammar system with a new one.Suleiman, 2003, p. 158. The Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems agrees with Suleiman's conclusion, but further claims that al- Arsuzi's work was "often far-fetched and 'airy-fairy'".CRDWLP, 2004, p. 287.
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In March 2020, the ICMSA hit out at Cairns' 'airy-fairy criticism' of dairy export sectors. Eileen Calnan, Chairperson of the West Cork ICMSA, said that she was ‘somewhat taken aback’ by what she called Deputy Cairn’s ‘lukewarm and half-hearted’ support of the local dairy sector in a recent interview on RTE Radio 1’s Countrywide. Cairns replied that as farmers, herself and Ms Calnan had more in common than they had to differ on. ‘I’m glad that we can agree on the most important thing of all: that farmers must be paid a fair price for their product. What I don’t agree with is the notion that it’s “airy-fairy” to acknowledge that there are many aspects of the way we do things right now that are not sustainable. It’s unreasonable to think the sector isn’t vulnerable and doesn’t need more robust support in the face of climate change..before this election, Ms Calnan said farmers didn’t want politicians who just told them what they thought they wanted to hear.
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"Airy fairy libertarians: Attack of the muesli-eaters?" , BBC, 20 November 2001 As Education Secretary, he had repeatedly expressed the intention that, were he to become Home Secretary, he would make the then-incumbent Jack Straw, who had been criticised for being hard-line, seem over-liberal. In 2006, Martin Narey, the former director general of the prison service, claimed that Blunkett had once told him to use the army and machine guns, to deal with rioting prisoners. Blunkett has denied these allegations.
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Hackett also wrote the lyrics which Collins thought had a Mary Poppins feel to them. Rutherford recalled that Hackett "started writing verses which were very airy-fairy and then he came down with a bang". "Squonk" is based on the North American tale of the Squonk which, when captured, dissolves in a pool of tears. The song combines a main theme written by Rutherford against a middle section written by Banks, and was designed to sound like Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir".
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In 1971, the new King Crimson formation recorded Islands. Loosely influenced by Miles Davis's orchestral collaborations with Gil Evans and Homer's Odyssey, the album also showed signs of a split in styles between Sinfield (who favoured the softer and more textural jazz-folk approach and wanted the band to move in a Miles Davis direction) and Fripp (who was drawn more towards the harsher instrumental style exemplified by the instrumental "Sailor's Tale", with its dramatic Mellotron and banjo-inspired guitar technique). Islands also featured the band's only experiment with a string ensemble on "Prelude: Song of the Gulls" and the raunchy rhythm-and-blues- inspired "Ladies of the Road". A hint of trouble to come came when one member of the band allegedly described the more delicate and meditative parts of Islands as "airy-fairy shit".
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It caused a backbench rebellion and provoked strong opposition in the House of Lords, and Blunkett made concessions over incitement to religious hatred (later carried through by his successor) and to introduce a "sunset clause". He authorised MI5 to start collecting bulk telephone communications data on which telephone numbers called each other and when, authorised under a little understood general power under the Telecommunications Act 1984 instead of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 which would have brought independent oversight and regulation. This was kept secret until announced by the then Home Secretary in 2015. As Home Secretary he was prepared to confront the judiciary and the police, with proposals for civilian community patrols and changes to police officers' pay and working conditions. More than 7,000 police demonstrated outside Parliament in 2002. Also during his term in office the massive upsurge in asylum claims was reversed, the Sangatte refugee camp on French soil was closed, and refugees numbers subsequently dropped from 110,000 to less than 30,000. With an additional 15,000 police officers and 6,500 Community Support Officers by 2004, crime had reached an all-time low with over a 40% drop from ten years earlier. A controversial area for Blunkett was civil liberties, and he described civil libertarianism as "airy fairy".
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