Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity." ❋ RJ (2011)
The other spectre that haunts liberal economics – other than the lingering unhappiness that its happy-clappy consumerism generates – is the broaching of planetary boundaries for survival. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The chilly halls, crusty old dons and whiff of decaying empire were a far cry from sunny, happy-clappy San Francisco. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Surely you can join Tatchell and Cohen and other decent people in condemning Ken Livingstone for his happy-clappy association with the Muslim fundamentalist cleric, Yusuf al-Qaradawi? ❋ Unknown (2011)
ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity." ❋ RJ (2011)
This is the happy-clappy voice of Google's PR operation, a vast exercise in passive aggression designed to prop up the perception that Eric, Larry and Sergey really, really, really, don't want to do evil. ❋ Unknown (2010)
This will bring happiness...not happy-clappy happiness but ultimate, eternal happiness. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And not to get all happy-clappy but it celebrates how opposing teams can bring out the best in one another and earn each other respect. ❋ Glenn Dunks (2009)
Humanist doesn't mean happy-clappy--there's tragedy and pain, but the underlying sentiment is one that does not invoke despair, at least not in my cynical brain. ❋ Kate (2009)
Graham Kendrick, composer of the most loathed of all happy-clappy hymns, “Shine Jesus Shine”, has been named by Quentin Letts in a new book as one of the 50 People Who B*ggered up Britain. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Wellie Park Hotel was pretty nice, if a bit weird in having the function room hired out for, variously, a Pro-Wrestling match Friday night, a wedding reception the next night, and a happy-clappy Evangelical Christian revival on the Sunday morning. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)
As recently as April, the environmental agenda was a progressive's happy-clappy laundry list: A windfall profits tax, plans to sue OPEC, and even some price-gouging investigations of the oil-industrial complex. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As such they, like the nasty Rahm Emanuel, are to be welcomed as bringing a reassuring touch of reality to the precious Obama and his happy-clappy constituency. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Spare me the happy-clappy, "I'd like to teach the world to sing ...", "all you need is love", guff. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The crackdown fits into a nationwide backlash against the excesses of 1960s "happy-clappy" liberalism, as a conservative Dutch member of parliament recently put it. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Once again, Hitchens presents us with a cacophony of insults happy-clappy Sunday “Churchianity”; weirdos and creeps etc. rather than the rationality of which he claims to be a champion. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The issue that shook well gently rocked middle England's readers was the introduction of ''happy-clappy services'' by the Vicar of St Gregory's The Reverend Jerry Bird who discovered the hard way that churchgoers, like all British folk, can be a traditional and militant lot when they are pushed that bit too far. ❋ Peter Troy (2007)
