fogeyism

The Coens are way too quirky to be considered symbols of old fogeyism.

Dear Academy Award voters: Why don't you like Christopher Nolan? Jen Chaney 2011

In a moment of calculated fogeyism yesterday, Obama lamented that "with iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know how to work -- information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation."

You can't just say no 2010

Audrey would have been appalled by this and subsequent antics had she not been captivated by the sheer incongruity between the premature fogeyism displayed by Doug when his fly was closed and his capability for the outrageous act when it was open.

The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008

Then I shake my head and change the channel to History or The Learning Channel to prove my old fogeyism.

New releases, 19 July 2005 2005

I'd guess that Simon himself was experiencing the all too typical drift from youthful idealism to middle age premature old fogeyism that his hero, Moses Wine, seemed to be suffering, with the same sense of self-disenchantment and regret that Wine has.

The Big Fix 2005

I'd guess that Simon himself was experiencing the all too typical drift from youthful idealism to middle age premature old fogeyism that his hero, Moses Wine, seemed to be suffering, with the same sense of self-disenchantment and regret that Wine has.

Lance Mannion: 2005

First and last there was a quantity of grinding detail which, like the embittered old fogeyism of the Blaines College trustees, had not appeared on his rosy prospect in the Maytime preceding.

Queed Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

There is an element of old fogeyism in Mr. Kaurismaki's sensibility, a stubborn loyalty to vinyl records, celluloid film, vintage dresses and other old-fashioned modern stuff.

NYT > Home Page By A. O. SCOTT 2011

According to Newman, with whom Hislop has written TV series, a film and radio programmes, as well as countless jokes for Private Eye, his fogeyism is reflected in his attitude to sex.

The Guardian World News Stephen Moss 2011

More seriously, if you believe Live 8 did not touch a chord or three with young people who were never in a million years going to get behind some church-led old-fogeyism, you're living in cloud cuckoo land.

British Blogs The Guardian World News 2010