tail-waggingly love

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  • And by the way, just as these politicians flattered, overlooked, and cosseted Murdoch in desperate pursuit and defense of their own self-interest -- the way schoolyard victims are obsequiously and tail-waggingly respectful to schoolyard bullies -- so too did both the Labor and Conservative parties coddle the indigenous Murdochs of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria.

    Adam Hanft: Murdoch's Arab Summer; We Always Knew, Now We Know Adam Hanft 2011

  • And by the way, just as these politicians flattered, overlooked, and cosseted Murdoch in desperate pursuit and defense of their own self-interest -- the way schoolyard victims are obsequiously and tail-waggingly respectful to schoolyard bullies -- so too did both the Labor and Conservative parties coddle the indigenous Murdochs of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria.

    Adam Hanft: Murdoch's Arab Summer; We Always Knew, Now We Know Adam Hanft 2011

  • Blogging Tory Jabba the Roy knows how to deal with that pesky deficit emphasis tail-waggingly added:

    Yes, Doc, that'll solve the problem. CC 2009

  • But then the weirdness begins emphasis tail-waggingly added: "There's been death threats on me ... it's just been awful, absolutely awful," Ms. Holmes said in an interview yesterday, breaking down several times in tears.

    Dear Shona: No one cares what you "believe." CC 2009

  • It's embarrassing when you can blow holes in someone's arguments using their own words emphasis tail-waggingly added:

    Although actually reading it would make for a better argument. CC 2009

  • To no one's surprise, Twatsy Mullethead stops by and makes an ass of himself all emphasis tail-waggingly added:

    Ah, the Twatsiness of it all. CC 2009

  • Apparently, the RCMP possibly might have hindered in some non-specific way the potentially questionable activities of allegedly bad people who perhaps were considering doing us something remotely resembling harm emphasis tail-waggingly added:

    Qualifiers! Get your weaselly qualifiers here! CC 2009

  • The unintentional hilarity emphasis tail-waggingly added:

    Ah, the Adrian-flavoured irony. CC 2009

  • You're forgetting the middle part emphasis tail-waggingly added:

    The lies, the lies, the glorious lies. CC 2009

  • Oh, look ... reality emphasis tail-waggingly added:

    Just because it bears repeating. CC 2009

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  • Candace Bradshaw was as cute as a puppy and just as tail-waggingly eager to please the men who had put her in office and who now profited from the five-to-two decisions the board usually made under her chairmanship. --Margaret Maron, Death's Half Acre. New York, Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group USA. First eBook Edition, August 2008.

    April 27, 2011

  • Ooh, this is perfect for one of my lists...

    April 27, 2011