But was met with conceit From an entrenched group of clubby blowhards.
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Opinion Columnist A virus can kill, of course, but so can blowhards.
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We need to become creative with our response to bigots, bullies, and blowhards.
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Blowhards such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck characterised his spending proposals as "reparations".
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He takes a few shots at President Trump, talk radio "blowhards" and House backbenchers.
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These are poets, mountaineers, scientists, romantics, nationalist blowhards, police informers, communist spies and forlorn lovers.
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"; "Americans are all fat, spoiled blowhards with too much money and not enough maple syrup!
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She doesn't talk a lot, because she's around these blowhards who suck up all the air.
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But it just looks like an old message board to me full of a bunch of blowhards.
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The ancient Chinese scholar Xunzi complained about an early version of what today we might call religious blowhards.
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This isn't to say that newsroom blowhards don't exist, or that Higgins isn't funny as the woefully demanding newsman.
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When blowhards rant about the mainstream media, they do not usually mean Facebook, the mainstreamiest of all social networks.
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What brought Mr. Lederer there was the same confluence of interests that had created Brooklyn Blowhards, his newest band.
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The implication: While right-wing blowhards may infuriate Democrats, they sometimes pose the greatest danger to their own true believers.
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He belonged to a generation that had no patience for today's blowhards who, putting self before nation, always push themselves forward.
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But doesn't it seem like a good omen to give a storm a name associated with one of nostalgia's biggest blowhards?
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When conservatives show up in contemporary plays, they are usually laughable blowhards, whining billionaires or troglodyte parents whose children scorn them.
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As a comedian, he specialized in surprisingly wonkish political humor that was based on challenging blowhards like Bill O'Reilly on the facts.
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It's worth noting that Bible-thumping blowhards like Roy Moore don't help achieve those values, while investments in education and family planning do.
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Yes, it has been infuriating to see blowhards who proclaimed themselves "pro-life" when their compassion for human beings seemed to end at birth.
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In normal times Priti Patel might have spent the rest of her career in the army of blowhards with a great future behind them.
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Whether one likes or dislikes his deeds, the 45th president will distinguish himself from the conventional politicians whom he has often derided as ineffectual blowhards.
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Speaking of blowhards: A 2017 study of heterosexual behavior on dating apps found that advanced degrees are correlated with a decrease in desirability for women.
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But a far bigger threat to the "brand" of Christianity comes, I think, from religious blowhards who have entangled faith with bigotry, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia.
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As one of this year's populist blowhards railing against Wall Street and Washington, a furtive loan from a blue-ribbon investment bank may prove to be embarrassing.
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For "Brooklyn Blowhards" he enlisted some of his closest peers, like the cornetist Kirk Knuffke, the trombonist Brian Drye and the percussionists Allison Miller and Matt Wilson.
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It's unfair that the real Fox reporters are tainted by blowhards like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, who engage less in journalism than in presidential public relations.
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It's just unlikely to invest heavily in expensive scripted programming when it could do just as well (if not better) with sports, cable news blowhards, and reality spectacles.
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Big Trouble bombed when it was released in 1986, but it would likely fare much better today, considering Hollywood's fascination with China and America's fascination with dim-witted blowhards.
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Democrats ushered in Jim Crow in the post–Civil War South, and their cause was carried well into the 20th century by racial blowhards like Bull Connor and George Wallace.
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"These guys [in tech] were just pompous blowhards back then, and now ..." "They moved fast and they broke things," says Berg, who often finishes Judge's sentences, referencing Facebook's infamous early slogan.
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Like an argument on the social network, it is tedious, seemingly complicated but intellectually underdeveloped, crammed with false facts and exaggerated statistics and features several blowhards who veer between self-righteous and self-congratulatory.
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After Donald Trump's election as president, liberal pols, conservative blowhards, and media magoos turned their ire on Silicon Valley, excoriating the likes of Google, Facebook, and Twitter for their role in disseminating preelection (dis)information.
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And though Colbert's audience was largely liberals who wanted to laugh at the right-wing blowhards the comedian was satirizing, O'Reilly and Jones are playing "characters" that appeal to people who mostly share their views.
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These new scandals provoke fresh nausea at the hypocrisy of religious blowhards like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson who thundered at the immorality of gay people even as their own Southern Baptist network tolerated child rape.
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LeBron, channeling the spirit of the old NBA, lionized by nostalgists and condemned by forward thinkers, gunning just as well as any of those old blowhards on TV, taking two games from a truly great team.
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They could prolong a primary season by weakening frontrunners, elevating fringe candidates, giving artificial oxygen to partisan blowhards, depleting potentially winning candidates of carefully husbanded resources, helping to nominate unelectable Democrats, or helping to elevate extreme Republicans.
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"Game of Thrones" had its famed "Battle of the Bastards" and Michael Wolff's upcoming book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," has ignited the "Battle of the Blowhards" between President Trump and his former chief strategist.
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There are still religious missionaries doing heroic work around the world — but the church leaders in America who have the microphones are often the blowhards who ally themselves with President Trump's politics and tarnish their entire faith community.
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It's a mark of Zoolander 2's sloppiness that it never really remarks on the fact that Derek and Hansel are now aching to win back the approval of all the dim blowhards they spent the last movie escaping.
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It forced people to be concise and outed blowhards by forcing them to string together never-ending, unparseable tweet storms (with all apologies to Jeet Heer, whose tweet lectures are a treasure and I will fight you over this).
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Alabama quarterback Blake Barnett has decided to transfer from the university just four games into his redshirt freshman season, and he's gotten plenty of criticism for that from blowhards who would leave their current jobs for better ones in a second.
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The only sane response was sorrow—that this is a presidential election in the greatest democracy on earth, and that blowhards like Trump and Cruz are, for now, setting the pace and the terms in one of our two major political parties.
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But I'm troubled that evangelical leaders have sometimes seemed to be moralizing blowhards, focused on issues that Jesus never breathed a word about — like gays and abortion — while indifferent to poverty, inequality, bigotry and other topics that were central to Jesus' teachings.
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The Americans who tuned in — a small minority — had already made up their minds about Trump's culpability and how much to care about it, or they saw, more than anything else, a boatload of blowhards making a lot of nasty Washington noise.
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On top of that, it's just a nonstop agony machine, full of bad news, and populated by pompous blowhards who are deluded by the social media reinforcement feedback loop into thinking that the world wants to hear their opinions about every fart that escapes in the atmosphere.
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Since the turn of the century, center-right parties in Italy and Austria have been periodically involved in full-blown coalition with populist radical-right parties, at least partly in the hope that doing so would expose the latter as blowhards incapable of delivering on their ramped-up rhetoric.
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They're not supposed to be boastful blowhards, constantly claiming credit for things they haven't done — like Trump bragging about job creation that has continued at more or less the same pace as under his predecessor — or which never even happened, like his mythical victory in the popular vote.
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Point is, amateurism is a word fart expelled after wolfing down a nothingburger, a Potemkin concept so empty that even the International Olympic Committee—a group of be-blazered blowhards blithely self-important enough to fancy their quadrennial reality show cum international municipal looting an honest-to-goodness movement—has no use for it.
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If you know the roles they play in our politics, the people in the photo seem like an unlikely foursome—the lumpy blowhards who backed into fascism for lack of any conviction deeper than a distaste for those with less than them, grinning alongside the savviest and most state-of-the-art ur-moderates.
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Before he was diagnosed with cancer in 2010, he was better known as an insult comic than a man of letters—less a sage our political era would have left homeless than a voice who prefigured an age of blowhards and possessed few of the traits his namesake prize has been created to honor.
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Beloved by rank-and-file New Yorkers and despised by media-elite blowhards — most notably the "short-fingered vulgarian" currently grasping at the country's nuclear codes — the magazine was co-founded by Kurt Andersen and Graydon Carter (now editor of Vanity Fair), who delighted in the sort of ego-puncturing they thought the city's preening glitterati so sorely deserved.
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Meredith: Logan drags his former COO (and Kendall's godfather) back into the Waystar-Royco fray to help woo the Pierce family, and all it takes to get him comfortable is an invitation to Hungary and a watch inscribed with a line from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Ulysses" (which is, as you pointed out to me, Emily, the same poem Frasier uses to end his final radio show — blowhards gonna blow hard).
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"There's Mitt Romney threatening to vote with Democrats again to trot out spotlight-seeking blowhards who will trash President Trump on the witness stand," a narrator says in the 85033-second spot, which is set to begin airing on Fox News on Thursday in Salt Lake City and Washington, D.C. The ad also accuses Romney of ignoring alleged wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenSenators take reins of impeachment trial in marathon question session Sanders campaign says it raised more than .
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His theatricality, even more than his energy and sense of rhythm, sets him apart from the monotonous blowhards of thugdom.
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Walter Leland Catlett (February 4, 1889 – November 14, 1960) was an American actor. He made a career of playing excitable, meddlesome, temperamental, and officious blowhards.
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Accessed January 15, 2018. "Donald Trump is, 'like, this great loyalty freak,' by his own telling. 'I put the people who are loyal to me on a high pedestal and take care of them very well,' he wrote in Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life, a sort of self-help book for budding blowhards that Trump produced with a co-author, Bill Zanker, in 2007." In 2015, Zanker created, packaged, sold and promoted President Trump's campaign NYT bestseller Crippled America.
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Goldberg's book denounces many people—mostly left-of-center celebrities, politicians and newscasters—and takes umbrage at high-profile incidents like Janet Jackson's exposing herself "in front of one-fifth of all the kids in America under age eleven" during the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show (p. vi). It decries as "Hollywood blowhards" actors who call American politicians "Nazis" while praising "dictators like Fidel Castro" (pp. vii–ix). Goldberg's chapter for Courtney Love is simply the word "ho". Other people (on the cover) include: filmmaker Michael Moore (#1), Democratic leader Howard Dean, reverend Al Sharpton, and rapper Eminem.
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Homer is invited to speak his mind on a popular cable news show called Head Butt, on which host Nash Castor and commentator Adriatica Vel Johnson argue that he will soon be forgotten. However, Homer makes a convincing rant in which he tells the viewers that unlike television blowhards such as Nash and Adriatica, he speaks for the common man. When the show is over, the cable network executives give Homer his own television show called Gut Check with Homer Simpson, where he provides a mix of populist and conservative ideas. During one episode, he pours "gravy of freedom" over a steak shaped like America, using the gravy as a metaphor for the things that make the country great.
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