emperor-has-no-clothes

Does Australia have a middle ground between the choose-your-critter supermarket wine and an emperor-has-no-clothes shiraz?

The state of Australian wine – and Landmark Australia | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

The rest of us are left with that uncomfortable emperor-has-no-clothes feeling: that there's an inside joke we're not quite cool enough to understand, and if we just keep quiet and laugh at the right moments we'll be accepted by the right crowd.

Linda Flanagan: Why Is Exit Through the Giftshop Nominated for Best Documentary? Linda Flanagan 2011

The rest of us are left with that uncomfortable emperor-has-no-clothes feeling: that there's an inside joke we're not quite cool enough to understand, and if we just keep quiet and laugh at the right moments we'll be accepted by the right crowd.

Linda Flanagan: Why Is Exit Through the Giftshop Nominated for Best Documentary? Linda Flanagan 2011

The rest of us are left with that uncomfortable emperor-has-no-clothes feeling: that there's an inside joke we're not quite cool enough to understand, and if we just keep quiet and laugh at the right moments we'll be accepted by the right crowd.

Linda Flanagan: Why Is Exit Through the Giftshop Nominated for Best Documentary? Linda Flanagan 2011

Surely the BP debacle is the kind of emperor-has-no-clothes moment that ends up meaning something.

John McQuaid: Will the BP Fiasco Change U.S. Politics? Don't Bet on It 2010

Also includes roughly an equal number of people who simply don't have the fortitude to become disillusioned, who cannot stomach an emperor-has-no-clothes epiphany; yes, they listen to talk radio and ignore other sources, but that's a means to an end, not the cause of their more-or-less willful self-delusions.

Bush Ties Record Low Of 25% In New Poll 2009

But the most delicious criticisms Epstein levies are those directed at Levitt, and Epstein minces few words here, declaring Levitt's celebrated research as "truly of the emperor-has-no-clothes" variety.

Review of Gene Epstein, Econospinning 2008

Mendelsohn closes on the hopeful note that the reception of "The Book Against God" and the frequently dropped emperor-has-no-clothes charge it raises against Wood's criticism might lead the critic to write a Revised Standard version of his agenda.

Epilogue 2007

This election is turning out to be an emperor-has-no-clothes moment for the Bush administration's Middle East policies, and deservedly so.

10/25/2006 2006

The more the press examines the premise behind Arizona's SB 1070 law, the more it looks to be one of those "emperor-has-no-clothes" stories.

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