fads

It will not fall a victim to those undisciplined and disproportioned enthusiasms which we call fads, and which are a peculiar feature of English and North American civilisation.

Cambridge Essays on Education Various

Report Abuse Both Myspace and Facebook, and for that matter twitter, are short term fads.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

There is the additional problem of the fashion that conceived of the liturgical text exclusively as a source for "people's music" -- as interpreted by folk fads from the 1970s -- rather than serious art.

New Music with Catholic Texts 2009

Hollywood always moves in fads, but this one is definitely big.

Sunday Discussion: An Overflow of Comic Book Movies?! « FirstShowing.net 2008

In fact, calling westerns fads is an even bigger sin!

Sunday Discussion: An Overflow of Comic Book Movies?! « FirstShowing.net 2008

Snyder uses his “instant pre-plays” of the most probably future to distinguish short-term fads from long-term trends, and to separate conventional thinking from strategic thinking.

Renown Futurist to Speak in Austin, TX on May2, 2002 | Impact Lab 2002

Or perhaps he forgot to read the bloody memo, because he claims that ultrabooks and tablets are both short-term fads that apparently are going nowhere.

Gizmodo Jesus Diaz 2011

It's important to try and determine whether some of the patterns from this season are trends or just short-term fads, he said.

North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - Top Stories 2009

The bull market that followed established a new way of doing business that benefited from short-term fads and

Forbes.com: News John E. Girouard 2009

many videos have been created on the same topic, in particular UCG often, it is not clear which was the originating video that started the phenomenon there is a substantial view count on the individual videos not subject to fashion or short-term fads interest for a sub-community mostly has spawned an active community, possibly with their own website

ginger's thoughts » What is a proper “viral video”? 2008