nabob

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• This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise! Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
• Many bloggers and online commenters have called the animatronic baby "creepy" and "freaky" -- Technabob even ran a post about the clip with the headline The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• ‘One would expect such deportment from scalawags, but not you noble nabobs of Wall Street,’ wrote Cannell.
• Nabobs, who for years had been purring about back areas in expensive cars, dressed up like movie-kings, were suddenly debussed and dismantled. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919
• In the same ratio, the camels which composed their train were fifty, sixty, seventy, and eighty; the size of their oriental pearls was distended till they almost got to the egg of the ostrich: but as a bulse of diamonds sounded well for a Nabobess, the exact quantity contained in a bulse was increased only in the same proportion with the rest of the eastern importation. Substance and Shadow; or, the Fisherman's Daughter of Brighton
• She is happily married to an Irish nabob, Eamon, whose Midas touch makes even his goyishness forgivable.
• Despite what the funding nabobs think, the works that define our film culture to the world outside are the ones that are the most unorthodox.
• It's a good thing the young'uns have scared the nasty nabobs that run the labels with their high jinks.
• They were defended as affording opportunities for new non-landed interests - brewers, bankers, nabobs - to obtain representation.
• Now that the series has been pencilled in for another 10 years, perhaps the GAA nabobs might consider giving the manager's job to the one man who deserves it the most.