10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOO-WORD»
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boo-word in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
boo-word and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
but. would. give. me. $200. for. a. BOO-word. article. Besides,. no. understanding
of me or my... but enough. I'm easily confused, distracted and tormented and
almost nothing does this quicker to me than an interview or prospect of one.
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Don't Do It!: A Dictionary of the Forbidden
On both sides of the Atlantic, the term 'taboo' has also become what linguistic
philosophers call a 'boo word', one which the speaker endows with as automatic
a weight of disapproval as the adjectives 'irrational', 'authoritarian' and ...
3
Economic Factor in International Relations: A Brief Introduction
Imperialism used to be a 'hooray' word but became, around the time of the First
World War, a 'boo' word. Idealism used to be a 'boo' word but has recently, since
the end of the Cold War, started to become a 'hooray' word. Realism has for most
...
Spyros Economides, Peter Wilson, 2001
Agrarianism is their bug-a-boo word — the bug-a-boo word of politicians also.
They shout it forth with deprecating emphasis and tone, as if they expected it to
have the same effect ns the cabalistic word that scares away evil spirits. They tell
us ...
Very often political debate, in practice, is an attempt to label your opponents'
ideas with what Weldon (1953) calls a 'boo!' word and your own with an 'hurrah!'
one. Thus Conservatives will wish to label Labour measures as 'nationalisation' ...
Stephen D Tansey, Stephen Tansey, 2004
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Confronting Tyranny: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics
Does all of this mean, however, that the term "tyranny" is in current usage merely
arbitrary, a kind of boo word to be Hung against those whom, for whatever
temporary or contingent reasons, we happen not to like, whom we don't get on
with or ...
Toivo Koivukoski, David Tabachnick, 2005
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Everyone Is NOT Doing It: Abstinence and Personal Identity
For these reasons among others, taboo is what linguistic philosophers would
refer to as a "boo word," one that comes with an almost immediate sense of
disapproval (Thody 1997, 4). Part of this scorn undoubtedly stems from the
association ...
8
American Slang: 2nd Edition
... but youcan shake your booty to it too— Macon Telegraph boo-word n phr
1990s A word or phrase that frightens: . . . his scholarly interests—traditional,
historical, and, to use a radical boo- word, Eurocentric—New York Times booze 1
n fey ...
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PCs All-in-One For Dummies
If you get the urge to check for yourself and go the spell-check route, Windows
Mail opens the dialog box shown in Figure 5-11. ' To substitute the boo-boo word
(Not in Dictionary field) to the Change To suggestion: Click the Change button.
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Making Sense of Tyranny: Interpretations of Totalitarianism
... render its application idiosyncratic and arbitrary'.' Are we, as Frederic Fleron
argued in the 1960s, faced with a concept that is little more than, as he puts it, a '
boo word' to be employed whenever we want to describe 'boo regimes'?2 Is there
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOO-WORD»
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boo-word is used in the context of the following news items.
Foodies made dining delicious for all of us
Once you use “elitism” as a boo-word in connection with food, you've joined the brigade that feeds the enemies of civilisation. There is nothing ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 14»
No Offence but...
'Offence' must not be allowed to become a boo-word with the capacity to get someone out of an argument. Imagine if Martin Luther, when he ... «Cherwell Online, Jul 14»
The Power Of Science And The Danger Of Scientism
For Pinker there really is no such thing as scientism, which, he claims, is "more of a boo-word than a label for any coherent doctrine.". «NPR, Aug 13»
How Science Can (And Can't) Fix Politics
The term “scientism” is anything but clear, more of a boo-word than a label for any coherent doctrine. Sometimes it is equated with lunatic ... «ThinkProgress, Aug 13»
The Scientism of Steven Pinker
But the “boo-word” version of the phenomenon — the scientism that makes entirely unwarranted claims about what the scientific method can ... «New York Times, Aug 13»
Malcolm: the middle says no
Abbott might be a boo-word in polite society, a shorthand for extremism, negativity and John Howard on steroids. The cold, hard reality, though, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 12»
The rich: Exactly what does the terminology mean?
"Bankers" has become a catch-all "boo-word" that can be seen on thousands of placards and letters pages. Many people imagine bankers to ... «BBC News, Nov 11»
Confused superpower
Some have suggested the word is merely moronic: a "boo-word" crudely employed to silence criticism. In a searching essay in 1990, French ... «The Australian, Sep 11»
The interaction between science and faith
However, we must be careful how we define “fundamentalism” as it is an easily abused boo-word. In my book a fundamentalist (in the ... «Network Norwich, Jun 11»
Cambridge Union declares classical music not irrelevant after all
I poured some sarcasm on that ideologically loaded boo-word 'relevance', and also on the idea that 'today's youth' are a strange alien life-form, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 11»
