duddies

At the risk of aligning myself with the fuddy-duddies on the panel, I'm not convinced that their critics do understand the rigors of the jobs those panelists have.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

But the bull market we had the last two decades gave the illusion that these basic principles are only for the fuddy-duddies, and stocks have only one way to go, and that's up.

Meena Cheng - An interview with author 2010

In sum and without subtlety, he speaks ill of all journalists and of all newspapers, to the extent that he even misses the fairly civilized old fuddy-duddies like Angelo Rinaldi and Michel

Marie-Laure Delorme: Provocation and Silence in Public Enemies Marie-Laure Delorme 2011

At the risk of aligning myself with the fuddy-duddies on the panel, I'm not convinced that their critics do understand the rigors of the jobs those panelists have.

Old Think from New Publishers 2009

Now, just imagine if someone came along and said, you know, all these old strictures are just the work of fuddy-duddies, rules imposed by people who don't understand the contemporary bridge-building impulse.

Bridge Building and Sacred Music 2009

These books are light larks that take frivolous young protagonists and force them under some pretense into country houses alongside older, eccentric fuddy-duddies: a Bright Young Woman's version of a common P.G. Wodehouse conceit.

The Pursuit of Laughter 2010

Rather than siding with these fuddy-duddies, we should instead embrace this shift in student work habits.

Kembrew McLeod: A Modest Free Market Proposal for Education Reform Kembrew McLeod 2010

Those who are temperent are labeled 'wouzers' and laughed out as old fuddy duddies or fundamentalist crackpots little better than tyrants in Middle Eastern dictatorships ..... with only 10-15% of the population observant Christian, we fight a very difficult battle.

Charity Begins At Home 2008

We have been told to stop taking art so seriously, to stop being reactionary fuddy-duddies, to get with the program, to soak up the vibes, to accept "Hair" as a work of liberation.

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N' Roll 2010

Rather than siding with these fuddy-duddies, we should instead embrace this shift in student work habits.

Kembrew McLeod: A Modest Free Market Proposal for Education Reform 2010