(1) The veteran presenter got off rather lightly compared to Channel 4 youth host Terry Christian described on a 1991 live show by Lydon, not inaccurately, as "a very tedious … typical Manchester gobshite".
(2) The gobshite-y, the clueless, low-neck T-shirt-wearing millennial dickhead who “wanders bemusedly around the world”.
Mores
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Example Sentences:
(1) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(2) Family policies, together with changes in corporate labour practices, can reinforce changing mores, leading to greater (and more effective) female workforce participation.
(3) The mores that encouraged consanguineous marriages had the lowest final lethal-gene frequencies.
(4) "Social mores have moved on from the way in which we were brought up, with the values that we had.
(5) Peter Hyman, Blair's former speechwriter turned teacher and the coalition's most high-profile convert yet, plans to open a non-selective, all-ability, innovative comprehensive in the East End of London in 2012; while Sajid Hussain, the Oxford-educated son of a Kashmiri-born bus driver, hopes his King's Science Academy in Bradford will enable students to navigate their way through the strange mores of the English elite .
(6) Deep changes in mores and in the way infants are cared for occurred in the second half of the XXth century.
(7) At first Sabry was just talking to his friends, posting idiosyncratic yarns or musings that gently push at social mores.
(8) Charney has long defended risque advertising and a promiscuous lifestyle, with both his design aesthetic and his sexual mores harking back to the California of the mid-1970s.
(9) Because of the licence fee, the BBC has always had to think more profoundly than commercial broadcasters about how its output fits with contemporary mores.
(10) But she is against this law, because if a woman is raped, she will be treated worse than the man who raped her.” The intensity of the so-called “black protests” has proved tricky for Law and Justice, which presents itself as the guardian of traditional values in a country beset by liberal notions of multiculturalism, relaxed social mores and restrictive political correctness, but which remains mindful of the risks of alienating mainstream public opinion.
(11) Eight mores officers under investigation have been placed on administrative leave and have had their security clearance suspended.
(12) Normalising the more hardcore activities of pornography is a danger of the access, affordability and the anonymity of online sexual content, she says, but it's impossible to extract the internet's unique impact on the changing sexual mores when so many other media and corporate factors are at play.
(13) In peacetime, however, they resonated with a new generation of radicals – though he was not at ease with all the mores of the 1960s.
(14) Another Nigerian admirer of the novel spoke of its depiction of sexual mores and asked if there was any hope for progress in the assumptions about "gender relations" in Nigeria.
(15) Follow-up analyses of variance (ANOVAs) revealed a difference between anesthetists and community health nurses on one factor (parental sexual mores).
(16) The knowledge which geneticists have gained and will gain in future will raise numerous legal and ethical problems which will have to be debated and resolved within the parameters of the prevailing boni mores.
(17) A drug-oriented society promotes drug treatment of illness but responds with restrictive legislation and mores when faced with serious drug abuse by the populace.
(18) And, if we're being blunt, Peggy is a considerably more sophisticated, funnier and insightful about comparative social mores.
(19) Although just 100 miles from Delhi, the village is cut off from the hustle and mores of modern life.
(20) Educational efforts must address women and bisexual men who do not perceive themselves to be at risk for HIV infection and should be specifically designed for the mores of different racial and ethnic groups.