So I think a lot of histories, a lot of schools or fields of history begin with a kind of boosterish phase. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Others are less boosterish, including Juan De Lara, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California who's studied the logistics industry in the region. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Everywhere the author turns his gaze — from bumper stickers that boast about "my kid the honor-roll student" to boosterish "employee of the month" awards — Mr. Best sees a proliferation of prizes that seems to arise from a desperate desire to exclude fewer and fewer people from the winner's podium. ❋ Sam Schulman (2011)
Of course, America's small-town papers aren't all crusaders; on the contrary, many are little more than boosterish advertising vehicles whose motto might be lifted from Harold Starr, the editor of the Herald-Star in Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon. ❋ Daniel Akst (2011)
To help make the case that Newark was the ideal locale for the 13th Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Festival, which begins Thursday and concludes Sunday, self-proclaimed poetry lover Lawrence P. Goldman put together an unabashedly boosterish proposal for the foundation's board of trustees. ❋ Joanne Kaufman (2010)
They take a boosterish, let's go get 'em approach to rallying their new staffs, which falls flat, he says, because technical people aren't motivated that way. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was a civic-boosterish, quaint and warm affair. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"There was a proto-blogosphere that stopped being boosterish in the popular press and that led to the professionalization of exploration." ❋ Unknown (2010)
At the risk of sounding boosterish, it so happens that a great many of America’ s unsung domestic prisons also routinely abuse inmates, Guantá namo-style, are unable or unwilling to prevent inmate rape, employ long-term, sustained solitary confinement which gives waterboarding a run for its money, and in actual practice are often beyond the rule of law. ❋ Chase Madar (2010)
But Brinkley also says that Luce's most crucial influence - during what Luce himself memorably called The American Century - was his magazines 'boosterish promotion of an upbeat, abundant American way of life. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Key line: "the drift toward hovering, boosterish parents who want to gratify their child's every impulse will churn out more narcissistically disordered people." ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
It's complete with a presidential video, photos of Vice President Joe Biden (who oversees the recovery effort), and a "recovery blog" on which administration officials post boosterish stories about "exciting" recovery successes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Despite Liu's reputation for writing "patriotic" stories, his depiction of military research is not at all boosterish. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I found this section amusing:I will often say, in as cheery, boosterish, and cheerleading a voice as I can manage, "My wife and I discovered the truth of the Church's teaching on contraception, and after a while we just had to join the one body in the world that was telling the truth about it." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Alagna stumbled on opening night and the Italian press, usually so boosterish with great Italian institutions like La Scala, grumbled the next day -- much like the American press grumbling about the Iraq report, which had plenty of time to warm up and had been deliberately held until after the election and its vote of no confidence in junior Bush. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Thompson didn't buy the boosterish optimism of the postwar years and neither, apparently, did his many readers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
To everyone but the execs who ordered it up, the video is boosterish noise. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Cut to the boosterish mayor of Columbus, Ohio, who proposes that the explorer "reflects all the things that are good and right and decent and honorable about our country." ❋ Unknown (2008)
