(n.) A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggests his wealth exceeds the total worth of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who was attacked for his wealth throughout the campaign.
(2) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
(3) That's Mitt Romney, the man with a car elevator and multiple homes.
(4) 3.46am BST Here's the instant response from Ewen MacAskill , at the scene of the debate-crime: Barack Obama staged a strong comeback in his second showdown with Mitt Romney, with the president describing his Republican opponent as "offensive" in suggesting he was playing politics over Benghazi and portraying him as more extreme than George W Bush on social issues such as women's rights.
(5) 5.32pm GMT South Carolina governor Nikki Haley has come out... to introduce Mitt Romney?
(6) Republicans were supposed to learn from Mitt Romney but I don’t think they did.” Allegations of rigging were widespread, even though a vote has not yet been cast, but few were willing to predict what kind of backlash there would be.
(7) His move so close to the election is likely to draw fire from Republican critics, though a response to the announcement from presidential candidate Mitt Romney was notable by its absence.
(8) During the 2012 presidential election, Republican nominee Mitt Romney regularly liked to joke that President Obama wanted the US economy to look "more like Europe".
(9) Republican Mitt Romney, for example, raised $18.4m in his first three months of the 2012 campaign.
(10) 7.00pm GMT Fifth question : has the president had the discussion with Mitt Romney that he promised he would on election night?
(11) Mitt Romney's historic gaffe caught on video – published, with great timing, by the left-leaning Mother Jones magazine – in which he said that his campaign was writing off 47% of American voters since they "depended on government" handouts, was committed in an equally significant manner, as he delivered the remarks to a closed group of potential major donors in Florida.
(12) What the papers say The Economist (for Obama) "A man who once personified hope and centrism set a new low by unleashing attacks on Mitt Romney even before the first Republican primary.
(13) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
(14) Obama doesn't have much to say, and neither does Mitt Romney but after that Libya cock-up his brain is mush and he starts going on about two parent families – what?
(15) The Romney Family Table is available online and in bookstores now, and could serve as the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who likes Mitt Romney, or likes seeing pictures of someone else's happy, gorgeous family, or simply is determined to ensure that the Romneys don't just dissolve into obscurity.
(16) That would be strike out it seems, as Napoli foul-tips one into the catcher's mitt, the first strikeout for Matt Moore.
(17) But as Republicans grapple with how to respond to groups like Black Lives Matter, they risk inflicting the kind of harm that in 2012 earned GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney just 6% of the African American vote.
(18) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
(19) October 17, 2012 2.21am BST Oh, a bit of a to-do between Macho Mitt and Obama, over federal licenses and oil drilling, and Mitt's looking a bit Al Gore 2000 here, wandering around being all aggro and complaining about the rules.
(20) Where we already have the electoral numbers, our political vengeance has been merciless against the GOP; witness California after its electoral dalliance with anti-immigrant policies or Mitt Romney’s disastrous 2012 campaign .
Mitty
Definition:
(n.) The stormy petrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) But police described him as a "Walter Mitty character", a "Del Boy" who had eye-watering debts when arrested – he owed £8,000 in electricity bills alone.
(2) This time, however, the party has been made to look so absurd that even Farage has said he needs to professionalise his fledgling force and drive out the "Walter Mitty" characters damaging their reputation.
(3) It comes as Farage tries to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types after a stream of controversies.
(4) Mitty may be in his own little world, but he is not so disconnected from reality as to suggest a series of floods might be God's punishment for a change in the law allowing same-sex marriage.
(5) The letter's publication comes the day after Farage announced that he wanted to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types and create a "disciplined election machine".
(6) Not to the rogue Ukip officials and activists Farage was referring to, who have embarrassed the party with their off-message opinions – but to Walter Mitty.
(7) Nigel Farage says he wants to rid Ukip of its Walter Mitty figures .
(8) You would not have caught Mitty mocking a disabled student, asking him whether he was Richard III, as the MEP and Ukip member Godfrey Bloom did at the Oxford Union last week.
(9) James Bond, Star Trek , Batman , Star Wars , Fast and Furious , Thor and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty have all made use of Iceland’s stunning scenery, and the 20% expenses refund from the state.
(10) Farage's effort to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types comes after a stream of controversies, including the party's suspension of a councillor for blaming flooding on gay marriage and the ejection of MEP Godfrey Bloom following comments about women and sending foreign aid to "bongo-bongo land".
(11) O'Hagan portrays Assange as a Walter Mitty-like fantasist whose absorption with grand and unrealisable schemes prevents him from ever achieving anything practical.
(12) A Walter Mitty character with a bootlegging past in the US, Gavin Welby became the main figure in his son's life, especially after his divorce in 1959, when the boy was three.
(13) Ukip is yet to comment on Batten's remarks, which come after an effort by Farage to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types .
(14) It is also unlikely that Fox would have allowed "a Walter Mitty figure" to sit alongside him when he sat down for a social dinner with commander designate for Nato in Afghanistan at a Steakhouse in Tampa Florida.David Cameron said at prime minister's questions that he was waiting for the O'Donnell inquiry before deciding whether to sack Fox.
(15) So Farage is letting himself off too lightly when he announces that Ukip will now get a tighter grip on its candidate selection to keep out the Mittys.
(16) Among them were The Business Background of MPs (seven editions, 1959-80), Enoch Powell, Tory Tribune (1970), Lord On the Board (1972) and Sir Harold Wilson: Yorkshire Walter Mitty (1977).
(17) One friend said he was “eccentric to the extreme” and “bit of a Walter Mitty”, obsessed by palm-reading and known to sleep in his mum’s dressing gown and a fez.
(18) Nigel Farage's admission that Ukip has more than its fair share of Walter Mittys might look like the very latest in candour from the man who styles himself as a straight-talker, but it is in fact an insult.
(19) Walter Mitty's inner Walter Mitty is never rattled, however tight the corner; his peers marvel at his dauntless courage and are left breathless by the almost superhuman range of talents that real life never allows him to demonstrate.
(20) Police sources describe him as a "Walter Mitty character", a "Del Boy" who had eye-watering debts when he was arrested ‑ he owed £8,000 in electricity bills alone.