fillips

People of Amis's generation and mine have known this downhill prospect for Britain all our lives, despite the occasional fillips and salvations promised by the new Elizabethan age, Harold Wilson's promised white heat of technology, North Sea oil and financial deregulation.

Cursing one's homeland before fleeing overseas, Martin Amis, is a cliche 2011

His personal contribution was to promote the bill's modest market fillips as epic virtues that lesser minds couldn't grasp.

Professor Cornpone 2011

Leslie's father, Roger, also a writer, read poetry to the children at night and was generous with hugs and fillips of praise.

Stories of Fathers and Daughters Alexandra Styron 2011

But an enormous amount of effort goes into lobbying for tax laws, and politicians often reward favored constituent businesses with little sweetheart fillips to the tax code.

Should we get rid of the corporate income tax? Dylan Matthews 2010

Not so much fillips of grace -- an angel appearing in a slum, perhaps -- as, oh, everyone in a dark, gritty, noir-ish setting having actual little angels and demons, one on each shoulder, advising him.

theme and world-building marycatelli 2010

Like with Bill Clinton before him, it has been Obama's accommodations to the right, while taking the left for granted, that have fueled the rightward drift in Washington politics, where "health care reform" metamorphosizes into private health insurance industry preservation, with big fillips to anti-abortion nuts and a freeze on domestic spending along the way.

Chicago Tea Party Rally Draws Rightwing Kooks -- and Counter-Protesters 2010

Like with Bill Clinton before him, it has been Obama's accommodations to the right, while taking the left for granted, that have fueled the rightward drift in Washington politics, where "health care reform" metamorphosizes into private health insurance industry preservation, with big fillips to anti-abortion nuts and a freeze on domestic spending along the way.

Andy Thayer: Chicago Tea Party Rally Draws Rightwing Kooks -- and Counter-Protesters 2010

Like with Bill Clinton before him, it has been Obama's accommodations to the right, while taking the left for granted, that have fueled the rightward drift in Washington politics, where "health care reform" metamorphosizes into private health insurance industry preservation, with big fillips to anti-abortion nuts and a freeze on domestic spending along the way.

Andy Thayer: Chicago Tea Party Rally Draws Rightwing Kooks -- and Counter-Protesters 2010

In C+C, the two work more like dee-jays than musicians, layering disparate sounds, borrowing fillips from other records where it feels right.

Disco Keeps Stayin' Alive 2008

Some of these essays are mere autobiographical fillips; some are semi-sinister trickster tales that mix truth and lies; some are heady considerations of the successes and failings of contemporary literature.

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