If Sinclair’s characters seem to lack agency or a certain kind of Rooseveltian pluck, if they seem unresponsive or passionless, well, that’s the point. From Wordnik.com. [Realism in Fiction] Reference
So no Rooseveltian realignment for Obama, just Clintonian regression. From Wordnik.com. [James Pinkerton: One Year Later: Gerald Ford Will Always Be President] Reference
Rooseveltian? despot lilacs discuss pygmy! oddity vines … Thanks!!!. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Thank You For Being A Friend] Reference
He was still Rooseveltian in his views toward dealing with the Soviets. From Wordnik.com. [Lucius D. Clay: An American Life] Reference
But Mossadegh had discovered and managed to thwart this Rooseveltian plot too. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons From The Philippines Insurrection And Our Overthrow Of Mossadegh, Part II.] Reference
But England also has a prime minister, who acts as a Rooseveltian policy leader. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Rooseveltian proportions, there will be no economic recovery for everyday people. From Wordnik.com. [David A. Love: Absolute Corruption Is the Rule in America] Reference
Does Obama have Rooseveltian levels of courage and moxie to be something special?. From Wordnik.com. [Why I'm Kinda Fonda Obama (And More So Each Week)] Reference
The President has a Rooseveltian opportunity, columnist Frank Rich wrote this weekend. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Flanders: The F Word: Learning from Roosevelt(s)] Reference
If you're staying awhile, take your pick of Rooseveltian Civilian Conservation Corps cabins. From Wordnik.com. [State Parks are Hidden Gems for Hunters and Fishermen] Reference
The same specter haunts millions today, but there's no Rooseveltian leadership to address it. From Wordnik.com. [Systemic Failure: Capitalism "Lays an Egg"] Reference
Barack Obama is not yet playing a Rooseveltian role, though as the crisis deepens, he may yet. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Kuttner: The G-20 Conference -- Thin Air at the Summit] Reference
So yes, we will hear Rooseveltian outrage, but the question is what kind of policies will he support. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2002] Reference
Yet Obama must adjust swiftly on other fronts as well if he is fully to update the Rooseveltian legacy. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of Two Fine Roosevelts] Reference
Civilian Conservation Corps has been abandoned and cannot be revived because it is a Rooseveltian idea. From Wordnik.com. [The University and the Republic] Reference
It took more than an under-slung jaw and a rugged Rooseveltian determination to refuse this great honor. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of The American Legion] Reference
True deregulation aims at greater competition, while European (and Rooseveltian) corporatism dampens it. From Wordnik.com. [Target: Intel, and Competition] Reference
This Rooseveltian and Churchillian language is empty unless there is a real danger from a prospective foe. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-02-01] Reference
Speaking of Thursdays, if the nation wants a really Rooseveltian intervention, it should have Thanksgiving this Thursday. From Wordnik.com. [The Good Bad News] Reference
The difficulty is that the logic of these provisions is not very different from that of Rooseveltian socioeconomic rights. From Wordnik.com. [The Audacity of Barack Obama] Reference
Ronald Reagan relied on actor's skills, sternly facing down enemies without ever having to swing the Rooseveltian big stick. From Wordnik.com. [James Mulvaney: The Three-Legged Lap Dog Fires Back] Reference
In August, 1915, an incident occurred which set the contrast between the Rooseveltian and Wilsonian lines of thought in bold relief. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
Dennis Kucinich called for a Rooseveltian-like WPA for the country, a full service economy, cancelling NAFTA, and protecting workders. From Wordnik.com. [Christine Pelosi: Live from Virginia, President ...] Reference
But recreation of another Rooseveltian period of 1932 to 1940, with a new set of rules for intricate financial institutions, is not enough. From Wordnik.com. [Gary Hart: Turning Disaster Into Opportunity] Reference
Short and stockily built and looking every inch a fighter, he gives you the impression of possessing tremendous, almost Rooseveltian vitality, with. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
That doesn't seem to faze Weld, who is married to the great-granddaughter of Teddy Roosevelt and has a Rooseveltian exuberance about life in the arena. From Wordnik.com. [A Bare-Knuckled Brawl] Reference
McCain has spent much of his life and career trying to guide America through a complete recovery from Vietnam, championing a Rooseveltian buildup of U.S. might and prestige. From Wordnik.com. [Worlds Apart] Reference
He was, in Rooseveltian nomenclature, a "pussyfooter.". From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.] Reference
Governing in this way would make him distinctly un-Rooseveltian. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist] Reference
So, what Obama is doing is closer to Rooseveltian than Keynesian. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
Rooseveltian enthusiasm he writes that the Germans consider it a crime. From Wordnik.com. [Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View] Reference
At his news conference on Wednesday, he struck a decidedly Rooseveltian note. From Wordnik.com. [ArchivesBlogs] Reference
However, he could reprise the Rooseveltian bolstering of the social contract. From Wordnik.com. [Dissident Voice] Reference
There's been no Rooseveltian realignment for Obama, just Clintonian regression. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Rooseveltian policy, did not carry it on to the satisfaction of its originator. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the United States] Reference
Rooseveltian in its imagination, it seems the GOP angst over 2012 is now solved. From Wordnik.com. [The American Spectator] Reference
These capitalists have passed through the burning fires of Rooseveltian trust-busting and. From Wordnik.com. [The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind] Reference
But I'd respectfully suggest that he will learn more about the Rooseveltian executive style in the book's sequel. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
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