| 单词 | namby-pamby |
| 例句 | “I won’t have this namby-pamby, wishy-washy nonsense about not hitting people who deserve it. A good thrashing is what’s needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z You don’t do infrared reconnaissance and maintain a civilian arsenal in some namby-pamby tree house. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They were drawn to him because he wasn't a namby-pamby, goody-two-shoes ... Obituary: "J.P. Patches," Seattle's beloved TV clown 2012-07-23T01:42:03Z This book is strewn with lines like, “I was not much of a warrior,” “the sight of guns, never mind touching them, made me cringe” and “I have always lived in my own namby-pamby land.” Books of The Times: ?Sometimes There Is a Void? ? By Zakes Mda ? Review 2012-01-05T21:44:22Z I had a couple of namby-pamby aunts who always gave me book tokens, a present almost purposely designed to remind me how thick and illiterate I was. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z They were typically bland and namby-pamby and completely noncommittal, in the plausibly deniable dishonest way horoscopes are written. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Guess what? Newspapers have published fake news for ages. 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Small and large both have benefits. Saying we need both isn’t some kind of namby-pamby, can’t-we-all-get-along compromise. Small vs. large: Which size farm is better for the planet? "He thought we were turning science fiction into something namby-pamby, losing its roots," Moorcock says. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z No namby-pamby gesture, this, the administration of the granulated powder ought to be aggressive; a heap is most desirable. | Provence Rises in Midtown 2010-12-28T21:00:20Z Mr. Gemignani’s “Buddy’s Blues” was stylistically namby-pamby, and Ms. Baldwin’s “I Remember” merely sweet. Music Review: Isn?t It Rich? Isn?t It Loud? Xylophones for Sondheim 2010-11-21T22:51:00Z But his "real stories" are out, and Rushdie and Carter's "posh namby-pamby gossamer" is in, not to mention the fact Prys has been left completely incapacitated by a stroke. Meeting the English by Kate Clanchy – review 2013-05-25T13:30:01Z Beware of the deadliest kind of review there is, such as this one — the namby-pamby assessment, a middling blah and whatever for a high-profile TV series. Review | The real mystery of HBO’s ‘The Outsider’: Why isn’t it better? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z They may be starved of live gigs, this may be the first HM concert in the area since Motörhead two years ago, but the Colwyn Bay rock brigade is no namby-pamby, pusillanimous collection of punters. Saxon: 'Metal fans are the most loyal in the world' – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-01-16T12:54:39Z He quotes Lillian Hellman griping to Pete Seeger about “We Shall Overcome”: “What kind of namby-pamby, wishy-washy song is that?” Books of The Times: Sing It Loud: Changing the World With a Song 2011-04-28T16:23:27Z The FBI is criticized a number of times for its namby-pamby approach to interrogations of terrorism suspects. Surprise! Newt Gingrich’s thriller ‘Treason’ features a bumbling female president 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z June was no namby-pamby, but she could be quite a disciplinarian, Ms. Billingsley said in an interview in 2000 for the Archive of American Television. Barbara Billingsley, TV?s June Cleaver, Dies at 94 2010-10-16T21:30:00Z Nettle soup may be hip among foodies and celebrity chefs but for the hard nuts here there'll be no namby-pamby boiling to remove the stingers. This week's new events 2012-06-29T23:05:32Z It’s the Protestant-ethic default setting in American philosophy, which rejects all societal or structural arguments as namby-pamby socialistic nonsense: Every individual chooses freely whether to be thin and rich, or fat and poor. Katie Couric vs. Big Food: She’s a “strong feminist,” but not an “activist” 2014-05-06T22:59:00Z Felonies that fall under a category beyond namby-pamby white-collar transgression hardly faze the wives, either. Critic?s Notebook: Marriage With Challenges 2011-07-08T22:55:49Z “He had no idea how deeply I would resent being made to utter namby-pamby Plante-speak like a dummy on his knee,” she wrote in The Guardian. With a Friend Like Him, They Didn’t Need Enemies 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z There's nothing more likely to infuriate a hard SF fan than confusing their rigorous, scientifically grounded genre with the namby-pamby made-up magic of high fantasy. Being male is not a prerequisite for hard SF 2012-08-07T11:18:42Z “We need a food czar who’s tough, not these namby-pamby bureaucrats that don’t really want to ruffle any feathers.” Bariatric Surgery at 16 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z The tackle was brilliant and set the tone for a proper game of football and not this namby-pamby interpretation of what modernists think the game should be. Who would Arsenal be crazy to let go? Garth Crooks' Team of the Week 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Viewers are led to believe that, by refusing to get the shot, they're getting one over on those namby-pamby Democrats. Fox News treats its viewers as fools with latest vaccine disinformation campaign 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z She said her party suffers from "people who have been namby-pamby, lie down and allow the Democrats to walk all over them." QAnon and evangelicals: Republicans baptized in crazy 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z In Wisconsin, where the Republican-controlled state Supreme Court forcibly ended Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' stay-at-home order, one business decided to move past this namby-pamby "personal choice" rhetoric and openly ban customers from wearing masks. Trump's moronic war on masks is working — with his base. Will the whole nation pay the price? 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z “Quid pro quo” is a namby-pamby, wishy-washy way to describe the crime President Trump clearly committed in his dealings with Ukraine. Opinion | Enough with the Latin. What Trump did was bribery. 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z To hear the president tell it, in the real world – never mind those namby-pamby idealists with their heads in the clouds – this is how people actually behave. History belies Trump's cynical stance on foreign election assistance 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z That sort of self-doubt is rare in politics, where it’s treated as weakness, too namby-pamby. Victor Estrada paintings play out like landscapes of a dream world 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Appeals for unity sometimes come off as namby-pamby. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z He lamented the “namby-pamby” of his fellow politicians. John Kasich Is Back in New Hampshire. It’s Not for the Foliage. 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z But Mr Johnson explained that the president was not one for "namby-pamby" discourse or afraid to "ruffle feathers". In a hurry? Here's what you need to know this morning 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z He said that Mr Trump was not "namby-pamby" about expressing his views, adding: "Maybe he'll ruffle feathers - there's no question that maybe some feathers were ruffled." US ambassador hopeful for Trump UK visit 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z The American people are sick and tired of a namby-pamby politician who is politically correct. 'He's anti-left, anti-PC, anti-stupid': Trump supporters in their own words 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Schumer prefaced the rollout of A Better Deal by saying: “In the past, we were too cautious; we were too namby-pamby. This is sharp and bold.” Finally, Democrats are looking in the mirror. That's reason for optimism | Thomas Frank 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Trump is too namby-pamby to look Sessions in the eye and say, “You’re fired.” Opinion | The worst is yet to come 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z I won’t be namby-pamby about it and say I don’t miss all that money. Merv Adelson, Las Vegas Developer-Turned-Daring TV Producer, Dies at 85 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “I wasn’t the chairman of the House Budget Committee to deliver us to the first balanced budget since man walked on the moon by playing namby-pamby,” he said, answering a question on Chinese currency manipulation. Kasich outlines iron fist, velvet glove foreign policy doctrine in South Carolina 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Not to sound namby-pamby about this, but I’d say yes — and no. $20 Diner: Four Sisters Grill, a streamlined version of Vietnamese cooking "I think he's a little on the namby-pamby side. I just don't think he's got the guts." Tribune poll: Rauner, Quinn in dead heat 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z It just sounds a bit namby-pamby, doesn't it? Welcome to Nap Club, the home of more focused, efficient workers 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z So now they’ve converted his sharp challenge to American society, and co-opted his radical vision into a kind of namby-pamby “We are the World” universalism that bypasses a challenge to their particular ideas. How we get Dr. King wrong: “We’ve deliberately dismembered him,” Michael Eric Dyson tells Salon 2014-01-20T12:45:00Z “O.K., I’ve made snoring noises. What’s not disputed is he got a large dose of sedative. We’ve gotten namby-pamby to the point that we give murderers sedatives before we kill them.” Ohio Execution Using Untested Drug Cocktail Renews the Debate Over Lethal Injections 2014-01-17T01:34:09Z Critics generally view positive thinking as namby-pamby nonsense. The Best Self-Help Books You've Never Heard of 2013-10-24T10:50:24Z Sure, some of the language is just namby-pamby massaging of the message. GOP “autopsy” dismembers the party 2013-03-18T18:24:00Z In the short-term, as the women of the Senate would say, there’s no time for more namby-pamby dilly-dallying. Would More Women In The Senate Mean Less Gridlock? 2013-01-04T16:08:35Z The difference is that Dr Abe is not using namby-pamby X-rays and gamma rays to mutate her crop, as is the way in most other countries. Salt-tolerant rice: Nuclear-powered crops 2012-05-03T15:00:45Z Gabrielle was a Greuze, without that painter's namby-pamby softness; so fair a thing that the hours almost turned laggard on their plodding way to gaze at her. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Ford is going instead with “Lane Keeping System,” without any namby-pamby qualifier. Digital Domain: Lane-Keeping Systems Aim to Nudge Drowsy Drivers 2012-01-21T22:09:03Z Being a good daughter sounds namby-pamby and Sunday-schoolish, but being a good son, when you happen to be a girl, sounds just fine. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z That message said: don’t bother us any more with your namby-pamby sensitivities. How Low Can We Go? 2011-11-11T10:00:37Z There was nothing priggish or puritanical about Martin, nor anything namby-pamby that suggested wings and halos and hymns. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z But Hester, as she often said herself, “was no namby-pamby girl.” The Girls of Central High at Basketball The Great Gymnasium Mystery 2011-11-04T02:00:20.757Z This namby-pamby attitude brings all the author's trouble to naught, and instead of a philosophic lesson and a philosophic frame of mind, they deservedly gain nothing but the satisfaction of a vulgar curiosity. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z “You aren’t half such a namby-pamby coxcomb as you were when I first came to London at Christmas.” Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z Be not a golfer at heart or a namby-pamby person hanging to the game, and their contempt is rarely hidden. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z I should think that Mr. Reed would have about as much respect for a namby-pamby novel as he has for a wishy-washy politician. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, October 1893 2011-07-30T02:00:16.467Z The whole bunch of you is too namby-pamby for me. The Rover Boys on a Tour or Last Days at Brill College 2011-05-24T02:00:14.887Z "I'm glad he's come over, for though he's rather a namby-pamby sort of individual, he's not bad company." A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z Longer hours, harder work, greater discipline and far fewer namby-pamby social benefits. Osborne's swipe at bankers and jet owners is diverting, but not much use 2011-03-27T00:05:59Z None of your namby-pamby literature, Goswyn, but a bright, witty book. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z Nor the namby-pamby one who cuddled her with kisses and called her beatific names, until in childish indignation she wrathfully rebelled. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z One of those namby-pamby parties with a dinner-plate behind her head? Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z She’s no namby-pamby, Miss Sissy kind of a girl; but a good fellow——” “I cannot allow you to talk that way about one of your young lady friends,” declared Mrs. Belding, with heat. The Girls of Central High on Track and Field The Champions of the School League 2010-12-27T03:00:15.633Z They wanted to line their silk pockets with yet more cash and namby-pamby things like laws were not going to get in their way. Insider trading is rife in the City - and will be for a long time to come 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z This is a compact SUV, but there's nothing namby-pamby about its capabilities. 2007-07-18T18:14:00Z He didn't show sufficient mournfulness, at first, when the Fort Hood shootings took place, and he was namby-pamby about the possibility that the shootings were an act of jihad. 2010-01-07T20:25:00Z The old man has feeling left in him; and the mother doats upon her namby-pamby boy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 There is nothing of namby-pamby sentimentalism in Miss Addams’s idea of the peace movement. The Modern Woman's Rights Movement A Historical Survey It is the weakest of all the tales, and verges dangerously upon the namby-pamby. Maria Edgeworth It seems to me that lads thus trained, as far as my experience goes, never did turn out well, unless they were namby-pamby creatures, milksops, in fact, rather than men. Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself False and namby-pamby melodrama, on the other hand, is fully as detrimental to dramatic art. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The incident and the phrase do manifestly tend to the namby-pamby. Life of John Keats Captain Forrest, her brother, was one of the popular men of his regiment, who years before had become enamoured of and would marry the namby-pamby though pretty daughter of the old post chaplain. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. Her uncle would indeed have laughed if that namby-pamby word had escaped her. Shirley Puny, delicate, namby-pamby men she despised, and always gave them a cut with her sharp tongue. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart He did not share that unlucky taste for the namby-pamby by which Wordsworth annoyed his contemporaries, and spoilt some of his earlier poems. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The average man has a horror of being considered a namby-pamby, religiously weak, wishy-washy, so-called Christian. Carmen Ariza "It's namby-pamby of me," he had said to himself. Changing Winds A Novel Agitators who live by agitation will always agitate, and only a few namby-pamby Radicals ever thought otherwise. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The veriest sophomore ought to be "rusticated" for such conceited phrases as "beautiful budburstiness of bosom,"—"her twin eyes shone forth liquidly lustrous"—and innumerable expressions in the same namby-pamby dialect. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 There are times, of course, when this moralising tendency leads him to the regions of the namby-pamby or sheer prosaic platitude. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) She was sick of such namby-pamby sentimentality; and then they were so untrue to life. Our Bessie She was not at all weak or namby-pamby, but she was a universal peace-maker. Frances Kane's Fortune You cannot," says Miss Edgeworth's Lady Davenant, "satisfy yourself with the common namby-pamby phrase, 'Ladies have nothing to do with politics.' History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III It is really refreshing to meet with such a work as this in these degenerate days of namby-pamby novels, so enervating to mind and morals. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier So, now, thanks to your namby-pamby knuckling under always, it's business first, last, and all the time—and marriage just nowhere. Making People Happy Not the namby-pamby model that all human boys detest, but a right-minded, right-mannered, healthy, wealthy, and wise young Roman of the second century of the Christian era. Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times They are all familiar, and some of them childish; which last circumstance probably suggested to Pope the invention of the word namby-pamby, in order to designate the infantine style which Ambrose Philips had introduced. Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Ruth Fielding was not namby-pamby, although she was far from quarrelsome. Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers Put your plucky little mother in a side-saddle and she'd make two of you—ten of you—twenty of a puny, namby-pamby, conceited young idiot like you! Stingaree The idea of a broken heart had always seemed to Winn namby-pamby. The Dark Tower Why did you make us walk in front, namby-pamby so, Papa dear? Dorothy's Travels No, I am not namby-pamby, and this is not empty talk. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War None of this namby-pamby stuff," he had once been quoted as saying; "if you got enemies, don't tease 'em—show 'em who's running things. The Penal Cluster It's a namby-pamby sort of scene, and that suits her. Renée Mauperin The presence of the latter class might be ex26plained by the absence of the former, for namby-pamby cannot exist along with a healthy sense of the ludicrous. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions But girls prefer to be martyrs and go about 'letting concealment prey upon their damask cheeks' and all that namby-pamby nonsense. The Governess The little namby-pamby, white livered, zephyr clouds that is so divine an' useless, might float forever an' not even make a shadow to hide men from the sun. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills "Any blind bat could see that you wanted to be nasty, in spite of your namby-pamby airs." Miss Pat at School Furlong, who intended to annihilate Murphy with an indignant repetition of the provoking question put to him, threw as much of defiance as he could in his namby-pamby manner, and exclaimed, "I vote for Egan!" Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Two things, however, are matters for very serious disappointment: the surprising paucity of musical composition displaying the national sense of humor, and the surprising abundance of purest namby-pamby. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The editor is said to have been Ambrose Phillips, whose name and style combined to produce the word ‘namby-pamby.’ Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series I'm sick of all this puling trash And namby-pamby rot,— A Pegasus you have to thrash To make him even trot! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.) "There! why couldn't you have done that in the first place, without acting such a namby-pamby farce, I'd like to know?" The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans By and by, we have a piece of namby-pamby 'to the Small Celandine,' which we should almost have taken for a professed imitation of one of Mr Philip's prettyisms. Early Reviews of English Poets Few better services can be done than to banish namby-pamby trash from juvenile literature, and to substitute for it what is healthy and jolly and interesting. The Nursery, No. 169, January, 1881, Vol. XXIX A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers And you're actually trying to sell your namby-pamby stuff on my top floor? On With Torchy There is nothing of the namby-pamby, I mean, in his solicitude for the soldier's welfare, nothing to make him unpopular with his brother officers, nothing that makes even the youngest subaltern a little contemptuous. The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' The average sceptic wanted to know how I explained the namby-pamby note in the Gospel, the connection of the creed with mediæval darkness and the political impracticability of the Celtic Christians. Orthodoxy Too many school children 'see' as immediately 'through' the namby-pamby attempts of the softer pedagogy to lubricate things for them, and make them interesting. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals She is a weak, namby-pamby creature, and I'm sick of the sight of her white face. The Wharf by the Docks A Novel Oh, had it pleased the gout to take The reverend Croly from the stage, Or Southey, for our quiet's sake, Or Mr. Fletcher, Cupid's sage, Or, damme! namby-pamby Poole,— Or any other clown or fool! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Of course," he assented cheerfully, "I knew she wasn't namby-pamby. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment What will any reader or auditor, out of the nursery, say to such namby-pamby as "Lines written at the Foot of Brother's Bridge?" Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals It's not that; that is, I think, rather a namby-pamby feeling. Father Stafford Here, as I soon learned, and was glad to learn, was no namby-pamby scribbler of the old happy-ending, pretty-nothing school of literary composition. Twelve Men Collins' callow namby-pamby died and gave no sign of the vigorous and original genius which he afterwards displayed. The Function of the Poet and Other Essays Nothing is more remarkable about Mrs. Browning's work than the absence of that trite and namby-pamby elegance which the last two centuries demanded from lady writers. Varied Types This pleased her, won her confidence—if, already, that had not been done by his frank face, in spite of his fancy clothes and her assumption that he was a namby-pamby weakling. In Old Kentucky Others said he was a "namby-pamby" without brains or wit. Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work My "dignity" was placed in a strait-jacket and, in a namby-pamby way, I was taught to play ALONE. Rescuing the Czar Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated As a rule, the namby-pamby Christians stay away from such places; or, if they come, they float off to Saratoga or some more kindred climate. Four Girls at Chautauqua I said—"to get a namby-pamby way of writing—what a reviewer calls painfully kind?" Father Payne This "foreigner," it seemed, was not so weak, was not so namby-pamby as his class had been described to be. In Old Kentucky I am afraid she is rather a namby-pamby person," he thought, "with nothing but her beauty to recommend her. Fenton's Quest How can those girls, who give evidence of no more thought than is evinced by their namby-pamby chatter, call their existence living? From a Girl's Point of View But the women of '52 and '53 were not of the namby-pamby sort. Reminiscences of a Pioneer After a deal of namby-pamby Platonism, the girl, as Mr. Bulwer says, "goes to the deuce." Famous Reviews No namby-pamby everyday living of dishes and dusting and meals and babies for me. Mary Marie Tombs in his sing-song namby-pamby University voice was concerned to get information. Mr. Standfast "The Land of Oz is ruled by a namby-pamby girl who is disgustingly kind and good," he continued. The Emerald City of Oz The average sceptic wanted to know how I explained the namby-pamby note in the Gospel, the connection of the creed with mediaeval darkness and the political impracticability of the Celtic Christians. Orthodoxy If namby-pamby still leads to distinction, Mr. S., like Ambrose Phillips, will be "preferred for wit." The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 Ah, but when I sing Electra—Thaïs—the real me—no namby-pamby Marguerite—no pearls—that's how I feel about Thaïs—as if she were a great opal full of fire. Star-Dust I'm no genealogist—and sends me Irish cheese, and Iceland moss, for my breakfast, and her waiting gentlewoman to namby-pamby me. Tales and Novels — Volume 06 I know what you are thinking," he said; "that I am too neat and tidy—too namby-pamby to do anything in this country. With Edged Tools What will any reader or auditor, out of the nursery, say to such namby-pamby as "Lines written at the Foot of Brother's Bridge"? The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 The statues are there, but are modern, of the namby-pamby school, and of the original tomb possibly a crocket and a cusp may remain. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc He could never, like Scott, have let the precise picture of the swan on "still Saint Mary's lake" slip into the namby-pamby "sweet Saint Mary's lake." Milton Indeed, what man would not, if possessed of any independence of mind, strongly oppose such namby-pamby methods? Poems Chiefly from Manuscript Neither Boers or natives understand our namby-pamby way of playing at government; they put it down to fear. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal What is there for him to do but sit around in namby-pamby fashion and be fussed over and coddled and cheered up! The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love Helen blushed, for she was conscious that, wrong or right, namby-pamby, little missy, or not, she had hitherto satisfied herself very comfortably with some such thought. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Germany was delighted with that doting, childish art, an art of brutes let loose, and mystic, namby-pamby little girls. Jean-Christophe, Volume I If such came now, would the body of the nation strive to stand against them, or fall in the dust, and be kicked and trampled, sputtering namby-pamby? Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War No attempt is made to render him namby-pamby. My Life and Work Why, in the name of all that's namby-pamby, doesn't he pop the question, like a man, and have done with it? A Terrible Secret There's that namby-pamby Miss Nancy of a white-face, Stribbles, who, the other day, when Mad Jack's back was turned, ordered me to hand him the spy-glass, as if he were a Commodore. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War Let it not be supposed, however, that we are speaking of a namby-pamby tale of the luxuries and successes of what is called "high life," for this book has nothing of that character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 I'll buy any theatre in New York where you try to present your namby-pamby play. The Cinema Murder Piety is not a namby-pamby sentiment; it is a great intellectual force. The Warriors She is not one of your namby-pamby girls, whom you could dress up and put under a glass case to look at. Marguerite Verne To tell you the truth, the stuff was of very unequal merit; there was a lot of very second-rate rhetoric, and some nearly namby-pamby verse. A Modern Utopia There's been no namby-pamby dealing with the Huns in the bridge- heads where they've held control. Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs There never was a Denny meal without at least two kinds of meat, and one cup of coffee always, more frequently two—no namby-pamby Postum effects, but the genuine "black-drip." Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness No soul is finally held by the indefinite, or the namby-pamby. The Warriors And there had been a good earl, as is always the case with such families; but even his virtues, according to tradition, had been of a useless namby-pamby sort. Castle Richmond Your call to the rejection of the namby-pamby and the wishy-washy is of course inspiring. Pragmatism The coal-heaver whose hand the dramatist grasped thereupon returned to his friends with the report that the candidate had a good grip, that there was nothing namby-pamby about him, for all his dude clothes. Half a Rogue Some of them say I will have a weak, namby-pamby Sunday-school sheet. In His Steps The brute who gets the uttermost farthing out of the toil of his wage-slaves is more a friend to us and our cause than any namby-pamby Socialist, such as the late Dukeling of New Wanley. Demos There was a maudlin, missish, namby-pamby sentimentality about them which disgusted her. The Last Chronicle of Barset Ingres stands between the Imperio-Davido-classical school of French art, and the namby-pamby mystical German school, which is for carrying us back to Cranach and D�rer, and which is making progress here. The Paris Sketch Book I am the more pleased, as I would rather have been well attacked than have been handled in the namby-pamby, old-woman style of the cautious Oxford Professor. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Some authors, who shall be nameless, are, I know, accused of depicting the most feeble, brainless, namby-pamby heroines, for ever whimpering tears and prattling commonplaces. Roundabout Papers He witnessed a performance—not too namby-pamby—of Punch and Judy. The Longest Journey To hear that namby-pamby woman, who is about as capable of understanding you as an old cat, talking about your being firm! Stepping Heavenward Collins' callow namby-pamby died and gave no sign of the vigorous and original genius which he afterward displayed. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 He styled it “an ingeniously absurd poem, with an ingeniously absurd title, written in a strange, namby-pamby sort of style, between the weakest of Shelley and the strongest of Barry Cornwall.” Adventures Among Books She wanted ever so much to get up in the world, and yet namby-pamby men of better social station than herself did not attract her at all. The Financier, a novel And they were not namby-pamby oaths, or mere expressions of indecency. The Sea Wolf |
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