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Saltz appears to have uncritically bought Velasco's bromides and posturing.
As the parent of adolescents, I want more than bromides.
I mumbled some bromides about hoping that things would get better.
We don't want any more policy bromides grounded in campaign promises.
There are bromides concocted to justify an increasingly militarized police force.
His biblical bromides make Ned Flanders of "The Simpsons" sound like Voltaire.
The leaders will hear bromides about moderation and fair-mindedness and qualifications.
Politicians' "thoughts and prayers" bromides appeared in montage videos, which earned boos from rallygoers.
The encryption discussion must move beyond the tired bromides of the last few years.
We have a highly cynical population that does not trust elite bromides for this problem.
Senators pontificate and probe while nominees utter bromides and dodge questions for hours on end.
But it's a kind of truth-telling wrapped in gossip rather than self-help bromides.
Will she thank her Republican colleagues, rattle off some bipartisan bromides, and stress national unity?
But it reminds me too much of a gazillion bromides from recent Democratic party luminaries.
But for the most part Trump stuck to the usual State of the Union bromides.
Viewers were also treated to the usual Sanders bromides on big banks and big oil.
Useful, but hardly the stuff of romance, which movie parents tend to reduce to bromides.
I've sneered at the bromides of self-help for as long as I've known them.
In fact, he is sounding a lot like an elite politician now, talking in bromides.
Other party leaders offer similar bromides on the need for unity and re-ordering national priorities.
It's hard to imagine that these overtures will end up as anything more than meaningless bromides.
He will be as cagey as possible about his judicial philosophy beyond the now-familiar bromides.
Her best friend, Reva, speaks in self-help bromides while expropriating her wine and designer wardrobe.
Yet others are bromides, while still others will do more harm than good for the country.
There, the old fathers of the industry send out a constant stream of start-up bromides.
For Republicans to retake the White House, they need to come up with something more than bromides.
This can't be done be repeating 1990s bromides about free choice and the natural harmony among peoples.
He seemed safe to ignore: another black-haired, bespectacled official whose talk was littered with socialist bromides.
"Here we were trotting out these stupid bromides about how great the market is," says Mr Norris.
"These coalitions produce politically correct bromides such as calls to ban everything from straws to fossil fuels."
He also excels at swatting away bromides about the miracles of markets and the failures of governments.
And the themes they explore are tired, cynical, sub-Disney bromides about family reconciliation and self-discovery.
It does not mention the word "corruption" once, and contains just a few bromides about tax avoidance.
They may spout idealistic bromides about equality and the American dream, but all you get is garbage.
Democrats should demand a more aggressive reform agenda than the milquetoast bromides we've been treated to so far.
The soul of true scholarship is a search for new meaning and a rigorous testing of old bromides.
What Republicans have held forth as fundamental principles are, thanks to Trump's election, revealed as hollow bromides and shibboleths.
In a statement, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell offered bromides that failed to address the implications of the new policy.
Opinions on White, whose profanity-laden bromides and broken promises have alienated plenty of fans, have long been divided.
The usual bromides about hard work and individual virtue could not make sense of such a system-wide shock.
It'll be, I predict with confidence, intellectually flaccid: there'll be bromides, clichés and amen-corner rah-rahs in plenty.
"Girl," however, tips away from those strengths in favor of self-help bromides broad enough to exclude no one.
But her mostly good nomination acceptance speech was as full of progressive bromides as any she's delivered in years.
And while it is fun to scoff at her hokey spiritual woo and self-help bromides, it is easy to forget that hokey spiritual woo and self-help bromides are extremely powerful and popular among a massive subset of Americans, many of whom represent the exact sort of voters who decide Democratic primaries.
Gatherings of diplomats are usually dull affairs, with the participants restricting themselves to bromides in order to avoid open disagreements.
He refrained from articulating a holistic view for immigration reform beyond the usual nation-of-immigrants bromides of American politicking.
The core sentiment of the statement isn't the problem—spouting impotent bromides as if you're speaking truth to power is.
Clinton delivering upbeat bromides about her time as the nation's top diplomat to Goldman Sachs executives for $675,000 for three speeches.
In this, his last hurrah, he coupled soaring rhetoric about "change" with standard politician's bromides about America's greatness and bright future.
It's not that they have some kind of defect or fall into one of the worn-out bromides about mental softness.
However, Chuck Schumer's essay, offering a variety of familiar bromides to reverse this perception of his party, had the opposite effect.
Enthroned at his official residence, Pakistan's prime minister tossed out well-rehearsed bromides about his plans for a naya or "new" Pakistan.
He speaks directly to those Americans who feel neglected or on the fringe, those who can no longer buy into empty bromides.
Instead of reasons for hope, the Democrats offered these voters bromides about optimism: America's best days are always ahead of it, etc.
These bromides came with a liberal spin, the genius of America being defined as its closer and closer approximation of egalitarian ideals.
But after the initial goodwill gestures and bromides, tech companies will run up against additional questions of plausible culpability and free speech.
Despite the high-profile flameout, EscapeX has no specific plans to change its approach beyond a few bromides about adapting as needed.
More vexing still: In pouring his memoir into the mold of an advice book, Bharara winds up speaking in aphorisms and bromides.
The plan offered only bromides in response to a deepening recession, double-digit unemployment and prices rising at a 20 percent clip.
Tillerson should have gone beyond bromides not just because confidence in the U.S. is waning, but for two other reasons as well.
It is also refining definitions of terms for investing that may have value elsewhere, and help replace feel-good bromides with crunchier measures.
With a folksy Pete Seeger-like appeal, Sanders proved adept at couching worn-out 1930's left-wing bromides into new-sounding pabulum.
What is astonishing is that, after all this tragedy, Romney offers only cliched neoconservative bromides to the many heartbroken communities across the nation.
What the audience heard that afternoon was not the usual self-congratulatory bromides that people of means come to expect from one another.
They will tell the same tired jokes, recite the same bromides about the national character, and harp on the same milquetoast policy proposals.
You register some of our gauziest bromides as well-intentioned delusions: If only every white American knew and interacted with more black Americans.
You register some of our gauziest bromides as well-intentioned delusions: If only every white American knew and interacted with more black Americans.
It will be interesting for voters to see if Mr. Trump has ideas about guns that offer the N.R.A. more than Second Amendment bromides.
So far ministers have repeated bromides about monitoring market developments and given no indication a serious effort to reach an output agreement is underway.
They come for some thrills and scares and "sweetly affirmative" bromides, and then return home with some pictures, just like at any tourist trap.
Instead, she's chosen to sit by quietly and tweet out meaningless saccharine bromides about bullying you could pull from any sixth grade student council campaign.
In the middle of reading Howard Schultz's recent tweet praising Beto O'Rourke's centrist bromides about "extravagant government spending," a lightbulb went off in my head.
Joining Bacon for his nightly rounds, from restaurants to clubs, Peppiatt would ply Bacon with "interview" questions — a writer challenging the bromides of his celebrity subject.
With the passage of time, though, the human element—compelling, empathetic portraits of both perpetrators and victims—will doubtless re-emerge, and outlast any political bromides.
Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, Bryan Cranston, Marcia Gay Harden and Alison Brie star in an episodic comedy packed with evergreen bromides mingled with riffs on millennials.
In its alternating of Parvana's day-to-day struggle with the tale she tells herself, the movie doesn't promote bromides about stories and storytelling transcending reality.
As protest leaders and generals argue over who should run the country, American officials have offered little but bromides about their support for a democratic Sudan.
As much as we might like her, Nadia is deeply flawed, so there are no beelines to betterment, no bromides to dull the show's stinging humor.
Our cheerful technocratic bromides about education, efficiency and advancement sometimes seem crafted to keep at bay the disturbing fact that we too inhabit Kafka's nightmare worlds.
Now, they are there to dispense the free-trade bromides and, as the IMF's managing director said recently, to make money on financial distress in deficit countries.
Right. What about another 17 murdered souls, and their classmates and families, and the inability of today's conservatives to offer anything except false bromides and empty prayers?
This applied to the climaxing, but also to the chatter: the gossip, the confessions, the barside bromides, the characters' ceaseless whining and rehearsals of anxieties and slights.
ANONYMOUS There are about 67 reasons and 32 bromides (the most colorful of which argues against pooping where we eat) to discourage you from dating your (indirect) boss.
It's easy for me to tell you bromides, to tell you that nothing's going to change and that we still love you and we will generally be okay.
Unable to muster more bromides, it issued a statement saying only, "No words will do justice to the children killed, their mothers, their fathers and their loved ones."
They want to go back, and they have these bromides, they want to put Band-Aids on the problem, when in fact you need whole big systemic change.
It included the usual bromides about appreciating the courage and sacrifices of police — it was the standard offerings from a politician when remarks are tailored for applause lines.
And he throws in too many banal bromides about "fixing the economy", as if there were no difficult trade-offs between, say, raising productivity levels and destroying stable jobs.
He draws on historical metaphors and philosophical ideas and cultural bromides, stringing them together in forceful sentences that seem smart and invigorating, until you start to poke at them.
One of Icahn's oft-repeated bromides is that the average C.E.O. is like a fraternity president: a nice guy to have a beer with, but maybe not too bright.
Will Smith plays Howard, a hotshot New York advertising type who delivers Jerry Maguire-style bromides to his co-workers about how they don't really sell stuff, but connections.
" He would deliver bromides like, "Stay well, stay happy, stay right there'" and "Every day should be unwrapped like a precious gift … that's why they call it the Present.
Also by the National Theater of Scotland, Robert Softley Gale's hyperactive production hurtles into the politically incorrect minefield of disability jokes, only to conclude with a series of sentimental bromides.
Yet his tenure as head of the ineffective Congressional Progressive Caucus inspires little confidence, and his platform essentially promises nothing more than bromides and an endorsement of the structural status quo.
Instead, through discussions of great power rivalries, disruptive technologies, humanitarian disaster, and the limits of secrecy, the various speakers presented mostly indistinguishable bromides about preserving American interests and maintaining national security.
Miles Teller, Anna Kendrick, Bryan Cranston, Marcia Gay Harden and Alison Brie star in this comedy, which was shot in 2012 and, packed with evergreen bromides, was deemed relevant for 2016.
Stripped of national security bromides and conspiracy theories, the conflict between Trump and the intelligence community is a power struggle between the presidency and the secret branch of the U.S. government.
For one thing, the man seems impervious to it — his novel "The Alchemist," after all, has sold more than 65 million copies even though it's essentially a collection of motivational bromides.
Afterward, Judge repeated his usual bromides about treating each day as its own entity and brushed aside questions about whether the strikeout streak or his current funk were weighing on him.
That means we need to set aside two-word bromides and address these questions in Washington, in state houses, in city halls, and most importantly, in our communities, churches and homes.
It's filled with impossible-to-implement mandates (identify bots), silly bromides (addressing the safety and security of at-risk individuals), and dangerous power grabs (updating Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act).
Mr Sarkozy argued vigorously for France to stay in the EU. But voters found it hard to swallow his bromides about European co-operation after years of hearing him rail against it.
A book that presses against these limits does more service than one that dresses them up with libertarian bromides and a little evolutionary psychology, as too many of our "big thinkers" do.
I get the frustration from some players, but these animations allow for my favorite bits of any session of RDR2 I play: Slowly walking through town, exchanging bromides with whoever I pass.
" Another example came last year when the racial-brotherhood bromides of "Green Book" likewise triumphed over the beautiful-but-distressing childhood elegy, "Roma," and a far more acerbic race-based melodrama, "BlackKkKlansman.
Some reviewers complained that the perceptions attributed to Scout were far too complex for a girl just starting grade school, and dismissed Atticus as a kind of Southern Judge Hardy, dispensing moral bromides.
If McCray's speech at the C.C.C. felt familiar, it was, in part, because the words channeled her husband's approach, which is homey, down to earth and full of hopeful bromides about working together.
The company's most well-known product, though, may be Sweethearts Conversation Hearts, those chalky little slabs-o-love stamped with bromides or sexually charged calls to action—KISS ME, BE MINE, WINK WINK.
At the same time, the party establishment had nothing to offer hard-pressed, working-class Republican voters except discredited bromides about tax cuts, deregulation and plans to slash Medicare and privatize Social Security.
More than at any earlier point in the campaign, Buttigieg will have to explain (without resorting to generational bromides) why he has the experience to face Trump in November and govern successfully as president.
In 2015 and 2016, Trump ran on a populist platform that seemingly embraced "health care for everyone" and preserving Medicare and Social Security while rejecting libertarian bromides about how free trade lifts all boats.
The book's structure would be simple: he'd chronicle half a dozen or so of Trump's biggest real-estate deals, dispense some bromides about how to succeed in business, and fill in Trump's life story.
An intriguing artist book by Magali Duzant, A Light Blue Desire (2017), complies blue bromides from across the globe, and blue postcards featuring some of the selections are available for visitors to take home.
Anyone looking for tips on navigating the workplace as a woman is rewarded with the occasional stunning insight about how meetings are often bad, but mainly with quasi-scientific bromides about how happiness prefigures success.
Google was finding out what it meant to possess a mission with real content, one that isn't full of "bizspeak and bromides," as a 2007 New York Times article described the vast majority of statements.
As artists continue to search for ways to help us understand each other better and bridge divides, this show offers an important hint about the role that exploring one anther's idioms and bromides can play.
" But, despite the bipartisan bromides, Sessions has made it clear that the administration's prime concern is safeguarding space for conservative ideas and viewpoints on campus from an assault by what he has dubbed the "hard left.
Austyn, too, tries to build his own brand through the platform YouNow, where he interacts with girls who flock to his live broadcasts, hungry for his charismatic bromides and his assurances that they're beautiful and unique.
But "The Son of Bigfoot," an English-language production from Belgium, more or less does what it sets out to do, which is to offer enough visual activity and bromides to keep the very young interested.
I'm intrigued by the way in which his political success — he is indisputably the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination — contradicts bromides about the importance, professionally, of making friends and using honey instead of vinegar.
Better yet, these personal-best and attagirl bromides offer the advantage of being apolitical, and Trump is nothing if not practiced in the art of generic, apolitical speech — a fact that John Oliver has shrewdly observed.
It's an anti-growth policy so lacking in merits, in other words, that its proponents never even defend it, choosing instead to offer abstract bromides about the merits of switching to a more skills-based immigration system.
Next came familiar anecdotes of Castro avoiding exploding cigars sent by the CIA, his bromance with Gabo (writer Gabriel García Márquez), press junkets to Cuba, and the usual bromides on the quality of Cuban healthcare and education.
As a campaigner, Mr. Trump largely ignores the epidemic of gun carnage that claims more than 30,000 lives in the United States each year, except to repeat N.R.A. bromides about the need for citizens to arm themselves.
In meetings with caseworkers at foster care agencies, she said, well-intentioned bromides about not blaming or shaming parents tend to be forgotten by ACS workers loading up case plans with more services than parents can manage.
On the social media and chat app WeChat, someone going by the nickname Xiao Yang posted screenshots of a video of delegates answering a BBC reporter's dogged questions about the congress and the looming changes with bromides.
In contrast, when Goodwin gets to her section on the four presidents' emergency leadership, which should be the book's pièce de résistance, she succumbs to the leadership genre's vocabulary of self-help bromides and bullet-point banalities.
She doesn't peddle in bromides or offer a shoulder to cry on — she's too busy trying to shake you to your senses, insisting on your agency, your vitality and your complicity in what happens in your marriage.
Not on this list, but worth mentioning: Joe Biden's "Promise Me, Dad" and Hillary Clinton's "What Happened," two strong political memoirs, a true rarity (the genre's generally a dud, an excuse to peddle bromides dipped in chloroform).
Left Twitter personalities and publications are constantly denouncing the timidity and perfidy of liberals; the need to move "beyond liberalism" is a popular theme (that's to say nothing of bromides against "neoliberalism," a separate but oft-conflated beast).
The naked exploitation and hollow bromides we see in The Outer Worlds serve an illustrative purpose to throw some of our own era into sharp relief, but the satire is so broad that it also alienated me from it.
Pundits will never run out of bromides, and the sound bite of the season is that a victory for Ms Le Pen represents an inevitable third coming of the global right-wing populist wave following Brexit and Mr Trump.
But, more than anything, it is also an insight into her thinking, displaying a mix of stubborn defiance and aggressive cheeriness strewn with the kind of you-can-do-it bromides you might find at a Tony Robbins seminar.
They knew that the vast majority of whites who were indifferent or openly hostile to the demands of civil rights would not be moved by appeals to the American creed or to bromides about liberty and justice for all.
In 2012, the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control noticed elevated levels of bromides, the chemicals used to treat refined coal, in the Santee Cooper-Lake Moultrie public water system, said Tommy Crosby, a spokesman for the agency.
A tired combination of handouts for the rich, bromides for the middle class, and ill-conceived wars abroad had failed to address Trump voters' true social and economic concerns for decades, softening the 2016 primaries up for a populist insurgency.
In an age where most Republicans are still running on the fumes of Reaganism (tax cuts, a more assertive foreign policy), Bannon crafted a coherent new right-wing ideology that in 2016 excited Republican voters more than the establishment's tired bromides.
Provided that a cause aligns with her brand and maybe even expands her market share — like promoting girls and women in STEM or highlighting female entrepreneurs — Trump seems happy to serve up bland bromides and offer easy gestures of support.
These reports are incapable of viewing automation capitalism as anything other than inevitable, and almost always obscure the fact that the biggest beneficiaries of its conclusions are the same kind of folks that float around Davos issuing bromides about the future of work.
But for the moment, we might as well believe Tebow not just when he says that he is playing baseball because he wants to play baseball, but when he delivers his bromides about doing his best and not being afraid of failure.
Local promotion or not, this is also telling of where the Democrats are as a party right now, lately far more the party of the cloying bromides of Nancy Pelosi and the Cheshire Cat grin of Chuck Schumer than of the New Deal.
His book "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" has sold a million copies, combining hokey self-help bromides, like "Make friends with people who want the best for you," with cosmic explanations drawn from Babylonian myths or from Darwinian biology.
This week, as part of the initiative, the company removed blue checkmark verifications for users who routinely sprout racist bromides, including the white nationalist Richard Spencer and the right-wing troll Laura Loomer—though it did not remove their accounts from the site.
Former regime critics like Joudeh now confine themselves to pressing for the smallest-bore reforms: better training for the police and judiciary, more local control in towns and cities, a diminished role for the Baath Party and its outmoded Arab Nationalist bromides.
I came to understand Lincoln as someone so beat down by sadness and loss that he developed a sort of crazy wisdom — as if, in sadness, all of the comforting bromides that normally keep us from the harsher truths were denied him.
As long as this "dialogue" spins around in a cul-de-sac of accepted wisdom, recycled bromides and, worse, unyielding biases, the conversation, which everybody from the President on down insists is crucial to our survival as a democracy, will forever chase its own tail.
In the fall of Theranos, the blood-testing company that imploded under accusations of fraud, the investing public saw how a multibillion-dollar valuation could be spun up from Silicon Valley bromides and the image of an idiosyncratic, enigmatic founder who inspired cult-like devotion.
Her bursts of language, with an outerboro brogue that touches on parody, sling between poetic bromides ("It doesn't matter if you're Michelangelo or Micky and Angelo from New Brighton") and head-spinning provocations ("I have more hits than a 30-round AK-47 magazine").
More than any presidential candidate in recent history, he has shown no serious aptitude for or interest in the details of national security issues, preferring to fall back on jingoism and baffling bromides ("We have to take ISIS out" or "I would consult with the best people").
If, as Packer argues, "a writer who's afraid to tell people what they don't want to hear has chosen the wrong trade," what alternative trade should we recommend for those who regularly regale the same audiences with the same bromides about speech, expression, tribalism, and civility?
She died in one in which they seem to live right down here among everyone else — with their Instagram feeds and jade eggs and gluten-free recipes and self-help bromides — even as they inhabit a gated universe that has become more and more insidiously elusive.
When faced with a resurgent right — Donald Trump in America and far-right parties in Europe — they tend to speak in generic bromides about the value of bloodless abstractions like the "liberal international order," or wring their hands and wonder if the right has a point about immigration.
In a year when major media outlets marveled at the Reagan-esque simplicities of Ben Sasse's frayed bromides and J.D. Vance's dubious anecdotes, or extolled the visionary successes of Dollar General, Night in the Woods is better informed, more compassionate, and more important portrait of America than any of them.
It runs from the standard right-wing propaganda of Stephens, to the centrist bromides of David Brooks, to a moderate liberalism that cheers Trump's bombs on Syria and boos student protesters at Middlebury, to the howling wasteland that is Thomas Friedman's column, where he screams gibberish at a merciless sky.
Instead, before letting Health Secretary Tom Price (who has embraced controversial abstinence-based treatments) do some more substantial talking, Trump went full Nancy Reagan in his very own way: The rest of Trump's speech was a bunch of boilerplate bromides about America winning and the need for more law enforcement.
This argument—that only she can translate progressive or left policy priorities into real action—was not only poorly supported but also was undermined by dint of the fact that it sounded like the pat bromides that Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and even Joe Biden deploy to describe their own candidacies.
Jane eschews the typical and bland bromides, such as "eat ramen" and "save more," that often passes for financial advice these days for practical, actionable information organized by the topics retirees and those close to retirement need to grapple with and understand, such as Medicare, Social Security, pensions and more.
A fourth-generation New Iberian, he was a southern Louisiana politician in the old mold: charismatic and irascible, given to country bromides and plain-spoken provocations, antagonistic to the regional press and civil-liberties groups, chummy with the political class, a friend to many and a bully to the rest.
As the world has watched the unfolding of a campaign of murder, arson and rape by Myanmar's military, known as the Tatmadaw, Beijing has blocked attempts by the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution condemning the attacks, while offering the usual bromides about avoiding "interference" in domestic affairs of other countries.
But, who knows, we could get away with a new "art of the (trade) deal," if you believe the bromides of those commanding prime time on our financial networks, that even if foreigners dumped all of the $6.3 trillion of Treasury debt they are now holding that would just register a "few seconds" blip on the trading screens.
Biden should continue reaching out to independent and moderate Republican voters but move beyond mere bromides of bipartisanship to reassure progressives that he will aggressively battle against the obstruction and Supreme Court-packing abuses of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellLawmakers run into major speed bumps on spending bills Budowsky: Donald, Boris, Bibi — The right in retreat Hillicon Valley: Zuckerberg to meet with lawmakers | Big tech defends efforts against online extremism | Trump attends secretive Silicon Valley fundraiser | Omar urges Twitter to take action against Trump tweet MORE (R-Ky.) and Republicans in Washington— who act like intimidated poodles of Trump shamefully backing his blundering incompetence, crony capitalist corruption and bitterly divisive attacks against fellow Americans.
Her latest book, " You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You've Got to Get What You Want " (Little, Brown), is the third she has published in two years, after "The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don't Have with People You Don't Like Doing Things You Don't Want to Do" and "Get Your Sh*t Together: How to Stop Worrying About What You Should Do So You Can Finish What You Need to Do and Start Doing What You Want to Do." Knight's books belong to what Storr sniffily calls the "this is me, being real, deal with it" school of self-help guides, which tend to share a skepticism toward the usual self-improvement bromides and a taste for cheerful profanity.

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