| 单词 | fuddy-duddy |
| 例句 | For me, a writer of strong fuddy-duddy credentials, the sad dramatic irony really was too much. The Lost Virtue of Cursive 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z First seen losing a game of golf — a deliberate ploy to enhance business relations with two clients — Greville drinks too much and seems like a fuddy-duddy. Benedict Cumberbatch is a tense & meticulous spy in Cold War thriller "The Courier" 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z And it all pretty much makes sense to me, which is rare; being old, and a bit fuddy-duddy, I sometimes wonder what the hell is going on in Doctor Who. TV review: Doctor Who; The Thick Of It 2012-09-30T11:00:02Z Instead, it unfolds like a series of fuddy-duddy gags—trying to escape a maddeningly chatty fellow hiker or facing off with a hungry bear—played for cheap chuckles with no emotional payoff. Top 10 Worst Movies 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z She designed the spirit to pique curiosity of younger drinkers who think of genever as too fuddy-duddy, she told me. In the Netherlands, a foray into cocktail history 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z “It was used to say ‘these fuddy-duddy old local painters, we should leave them and embrace the more cosmopolitan French painters.’ ‘Scenes of Solitude’ from Hudson River School Artists 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z But the ultimate survivor was Bach himself, considered something of a fuddy-duddy by his clever, forward-looking sons and deemed a peerless, timeless genius by the 21st century. Critic’s Notebook: Bach at One and Pipes at One at Trinity’s St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-10-07T20:05:50Z An ex-employee who sued Google for age discrimination produced internal emails dissing him as an "old guy" and an "old fuddy-duddy". The Internship: how cinema sold its soul – but didn't get paid 2013-07-01T14:45:37Z I am not talking in a fuddy-duddy way about this. Nadine Gordimer advocates book over screen for the imagination - and Africa 2010-05-30T22:13:00Z But the film’s emotions are so carefully calculated that Mr. Brown’s transformation from fuddy-duddy to free spirit — and his sticky kumbaya speech at the end — fail to convince. ‘Paddington,’ an Adaptation of Michael Bond’s Books 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s not just that the teacher, played charmingly by Austin Pendleton, is a caricature of a fuddy-duddy. Review: Raising a Joyful New Voice in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy’ 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z He is no longer the fuddy-duddy who loses at golf to enhance relations with a business client, and drinks too much, but an unlikely spy who takes his frustrations out on his family. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Fuddy-Duddy: The only fuddy-duddy element to your question is using the term “fuddy-duddy.” Carolyn Hax: When a table for two doesn’t include you 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z An inflexible, academic reactionary fuddy-duddy who lacks the imagination to see beyond the author’s intentions, who doesn’t recognize all “the holes and issues” that Ms. Paulus and Ms. McDonald and Suzan-Lori Parks do. ArtsBeat Blog: Stephen Sondheim Takes Issue With Plan for Revamped 'Porgy and Bess' 2011-08-10T16:12:09Z Why will your fuddy-duddy composer friend get upset if you invite him over to drink a couple bottles of vodka with you? Style Invitational Week 1172: Pieces of ‘Pie’ 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Included were some tweed suits, almost fuddy-duddy in length and proportion, and in their plainness, Western-looking. Karl Lagerfeld Presides Over a Chanel Rodeo in Dallas 2013-12-14T00:35:04Z Despite increasing pain, he retained his fuddy-duddy sense of humor. George W. Bush’s ‘41: A Portrait of My Father’ 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z By giving the Beatles an MBE and inviting them to No 10 he made stuffier Tories like Ted Heath look fuddy-duddy and himself in touch with the zeitgeist. When politicians go pop – the perils of trying to appear 'in touch' 2012-12-18T14:30:01Z I'll console myself that I'm not turning into a middle-aged fuddy-duddy by recalling the example of the eternally young Shakespeare. Character development counts in bringing plays to life onstage 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The famously slick Tom Ford tuxedo-clad super spy invented by Ian Fleming now wearing the fuddy-duddy fabric most often associated with 1970s literature professors? This Bond Wears Corduroy 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z As for María, there is something tired and clichéd about a Mexican woman’s being deputed to help a British fuddy-duddy embrace narrative spice. ‘Book of Love’ Review: Lust (Eventually) in Translation 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Your fuddy-duddy mum doesn't get it; you know best! Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z So the idea that jazz is fuddy-duddy music that grandma and grandpa listen to is one I’m trying to dispel. To know Bowie, Kendrick and Gaga, you have to know your jazz: “There is an artisan movement going on in music now just as there is in food” 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Second comes the flash of unexpected delight — surprise that an old fuddy-duddy cocktail your grandparents drank could taste so good. You May Sound Silly, but Don’t Be Afraid to Order a Grasshopper 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z I’ll tell you what I think — and this is going to sound fuddy-duddy; I’m getting old — but this does seem to be what is happening now. Talking with Kristen Chenoweth: Little package, big voice (and opinions) 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Richard Martin says: "It was the 60s, the government wanted to be modern and thrusting, it wanted to get rid of old fuddy-duddy stuff." The family that bought the King's bed for £100 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Few Britons now recoil at the prospect of King Charles III, even if he sometimes seems more a fuddy-duddy uncle than a national patriarch. Charles Ascends to a Role He Has Prepared for All His Life 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z “She’s always very smartly turned out but appropriate for her age. Not so fuddy-duddy as she used to be.’ Camilla at 75: Duchess of Cornwall marks milestone birthday 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z It was doing most of its testing on machines made by its fuddy-duddy non-tech competitors. Theranos’ greatest invention was Elizabeth Holmes 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The 69-year-old Anne, who is 14th in line to the British throne, described herself as “the boring old fuddy-duddy at the back” to royal expert Katie Nicholl for Vanity Fair’s latest issue out on Wednesday. Princess Anne urges younger royals to ‘go back to basics’: ‘Please do not reinvent that particular wheel’ 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Liberal Democrats tend to see it as a fuddy-duddy concern that obstructs ambitious new programs; the Republicans under President Trump have shed the fig leaf of fiscal rectitude in favor of all-out tax-cutting. Opinion | The coronavirus is a reminder that Fed independence is vital 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “People assume it’s this fuddy-duddy world,” Greenwood says. Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood: 'Instead of cocaine, hook me up with a recorder group!' 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Dream movie moment: Cora, who sometimes seems a few scones short of a tea tray, wises up and leaves fuddy-duddy Robert for a dashing London financier played by Hugh Grant. ‘Downton Abbey,’ the movie, opens soon. Here’s a quick catch-up guide. 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Goto, a self-proclaimed "fuddy-duddy" priest, believes the robot will help reach the younger generation to help overcome pain and ease suffering, the goal of the Buddhist religion. Robot priest added to 400-year-old Buddhist temple in Japan: 'It will grow in wisdom' 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z And is labeling Seger “a fuddy-duddy” simply for playing his own catalog of well-loved, deeply felt and melodically indelible songs anything but raw ageism? Calendar letters: These are professionals doing their jobs 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z “Something professional, but not too fuddy-duddy,” she said. ‘We Don’t Do the Black Friday Madness’ 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z It’s understandable that companies might shy away from the word’s fuddy-duddy baggage. Minivans are the future of transportation — just don’t call them minivans 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z By splattering on pattern, or adding details like rhinestones or ribbons, the brand injects wit into the world of fuddy-duddy knitwear. This Exuberant Cardigan is the Ideal Antidote to Office Air Conditioning 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Ditch the fuddy-duddy clamshell, Apple seemed to say, and use touchscreens and high-resolution tablet cameras and stylus pens instead. Apple leans on multimedia to convince schools that iPads are better than Chromebooks 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The professor is a combination of a fuddy-duddy and a dandy with an expertise in extremely anti-social behavior. Cumming: important to portray gay character in time of Trump 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z In the words of the Mirror’s fuddy-duddy chairman, where the Mirror offers vegetables with the odd pudding thrown in, the Sun waves a bag of sweets. A new play explores the genesis of Britain's titanic tabloid 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z But at the risk of sounding like a total fuddy-duddy, there is shockingly little portrayal of actual academics and not much in the way of campus culture other than football and the marching band. Set at a black college,'The Quad' is a campus drama that borrows heavily from Shonda Rhimes 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z I’m not an old fuddy-duddy, but this particular misuse of the languagegoogle.com has always irritated me. Grammar Lesson on the Upper East Side 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z I’m trying not to be a fuddy-duddy here. Majors vs. Slams: A Minor Tennis Debate 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z However, painting Clinton as a fuddy-duddy does not strike me as a smart move. Republicans’ wishful thinking: Enough already 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The biggest gainers in the past year are fuddy-duddy utilities. A bull market record that doesn't feel like it 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z What if Bush’s emotional range had been just slightly broader, enough to get him past fuddy-duddy anguish and to dignified outrage? Cruz and Kasich (and the G.O.P.) Give Up on the Northeast 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z That song was on “Musicology,” a comeback album that found Prince playing the fuddy-duddy, scorning hip-hop. Prince and the Competition 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z He was a very modern man, not a fuddy-duddy at all.. Blistering barnacles! Tintin is back – with added swearwords 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The old fashioned fuddy-duddy HR department is changing. Geeks Arrive in HR: People Analytics is Here 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The biggest gainers in the past year are fuddy-duddy utilities. A bull market record that doesn't feel like it 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Moxy is the chain’s attempt to be hip and sleek and boutique-y while also operating as the chain parent of fuddy-duddy workhorses like the Residence Inn. Marriott’s new millennial-aimed hotel room: Stylish, cheap and smaller than 200 square feet 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Part of that just makes me a fuddy-duddy, biologically. OkCupid's Christian Rudder On Human Experiments And Getting Ugly People Dates 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z In some galleries, the fuddy-duddy human viewer is fighting a lonely and losing battle with the hordes of smartphones, tablets and selfies that besiege the most celebrated exhibits. Unthinkable? Take no photographs in art galleries 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I asked two experts, namely my two mascot-adoring, elementary-school-aged kids, about the court’s fuddy-duddy observation that “safety always can be ensured simply by handing the food to the customer.” A Swing And A Miss By The Missouri Supreme Court 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z He thinks “happy-clappy” charismatic worship is also becoming more common, even in some quite fuddy-duddy churches. The power of prayer 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Beyond the fuddy-duddy concern about the “dignity” of the presidency, traditional media folks are defending their own turf. Fox News has an “Angry Grandpa” freakout: Obama is making them irrelevant 2014-03-12T18:07:00Z Alfred, a benign fuddy-duddy, responds to Eva’s seductive aggression with nervous chuckles. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Happy,’ at the New Jersey Repertory Company 2013-06-22T01:29:45Z Mr. Hoving, who had recently left the parks post, responded quickly, calling Mr. Reed a “fuddy-duddy.” Henry Hope Reed, Architecture Historian, Dies at 97 2013-05-03T01:41:09Z Call me an old-fashioned fuddy-duddy if you will. What Seattle Times sports readers are saying 2013-01-26T02:53:42Z There are three German sides in the last 16 of the Champions League this year and fuddy-duddy Dortmund played Manchester City, exemplar of British-style market forces, off the park. The beautiful game embodies everything that's bad about Britain 2013-01-13T00:06:11Z I don’t want to sound like a fuddy-duddy. Obama in 2000: “Pervasiveness of guns in this country contributes to violence” 2012-12-17T19:18:00Z In a column for Automotive News, Larry P. Vellequette risks getting labeled as a cranky old-fashioned fuddy-duddy by calling for a halt to the arms race for more and more video screens in cars. Auto Screen Overload: Is There Too Much Tech In Cars? 2012-08-08T18:35:21Z As The Times wrote in an editorial, mediating his dispute with Mr. Hoving, “sometimes it is the one fuddy-duddy who has the principles to stick up for what is right.” Henry Hope Reed, Architecture Historian, Dies at 97 2013-05-03T01:41:09Z Freed of fuddy-duddy Building Societies Commission rules, it would be able to borrow on the wholesale markets and embark on a lending spree. Co-op Bank: it's time to go back to the mutuals 2012-07-20T06:30:04Z The really annoying part of this is, he was derided for being an old fuddy-duddy. It's poor farming, not the poor badger, that spreads disease 2012-07-14T23:06:19Z So how is it that risk concerns suddenly feel so fuddy-duddy? Risk On: Was 2008 Just a Bad Dream? 2012-02-27T00:19:55Z The amiable fuddy-duddy playing little politics in Washington became a gentleman of war. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z It's a funny old fuddy-duddy game, but I love it. Players show gratitude for sponsor exemptions 2011-12-27T17:11:12Z “I know we’re supposed to be admiring the spunk of it, but I’m the fuddy-duddy, I guess,” he said, before seeming to regret his words. Nocturnalist: A Garage Is All Aglitter for Art?s Sake 2011-10-08T02:27:26Z He added, however, that in his view as a self-described “Constitutional fuddy-duddy,” the argument for finding legal rights based on sexual orientation is not as compelling as racial rights under the equal protection clause. News Analysis: The Federal Courts: Movement Is Seen on Gay Rights Issues 2010-09-22T02:18:00Z When Victorian reformers invested in public parks and libraries, as well as enshrining the post office as a local hub, they were being hard-headed, not fuddy-duddy. Post offices can kickstart Labour's radical agenda | Jackie Ashley 2010-03-21T21:00:00Z And now he was like the others in the party—an amiable fuddy-duddy. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Tony Blair and Gordon Brown talked excitedly about “transforming” Whitehall and its fuddy-duddy ways. 2010-01-21T10:37:00Z You can lead your class all you want to with your silk-lined manners and your fuddy-duddy book-talk! The White Linen Nurse Peacock But, I don't propose to marry my daughter to some old fuddy-duddy. La Tontine |
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