betes

We all have our own betes noires, mine being Clive Tyldesley, who is a fine commentator in many ways, meticulously prepared, rarely faltering in player identification, spotting player movements and so on, but spoils it with his compulsion to fill every available second with the voice of Clive Tyldesley.

Feeling the tug and pull of nonstop talk | Martin Kelner 2011

President Obama's masterfully written, artfully delivered recent speech in Cairo was filled with precisely what the Muslim world had been waiting to hear: an intelligent, respectful American leader calling for normalized relations with the Muslim world, including former 'betes noires' Iran and Syria, cooperation, and genuine US support for democracy and human rights.

Eric Margolis: Obama and the Muslim World Eric Margolis 2010

I see one of my self-appointed betes noir is up to his old tricks again, relentlessly beating up some poor sucker who makes the mistake of responding to his trolling.

It's life, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain 2008

President Obama's masterfully written, artfully delivered recent speech in Cairo was filled with precisely what the Muslim world had been waiting to hear: an intelligent, respectful American leader calling for normalized relations with the Muslim world, including former 'betes noires' Iran and Syria, cooperation, and genuine US support for democracy and human rights.

Obama and the Muslim World 2010

But a lot of Logan's betes noires are my betes noires, whether it's Woolf or Jackson Pollock or the Duke and Duchess of Windsor or whoever.

Any Human Heart: William Boyd on telling the story of the 20th century Elizabeth Day 2010

President Obama's masterfully written, artfully delivered recent speech in Cairo was filled with precisely what the Muslim world had been waiting to hear: an intelligent, respectful American leader calling for normalized relations with the Muslim world, including former 'betes noires' Iran and Syria, cooperation, and genuine US support for democracy and human rights.

Eric Margolis: Obama and the Muslim World 2010

Am I wrong or have you neglected several of the betes noires of those who propose “waste, fraud, and abuse” as the source of high U.

Health Care Waste, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

President Obama's masterfully written, artfully delivered recent speech in Cairo was filled with precisely what the Muslim world had been waiting to hear: an intelligent, respectful American leader calling for normalized relations with the Muslim world, including former 'betes noires' Iran and Syria, cooperation, and genuine US support for democracy and human rights.

Eric Margolis: Obama and the Muslim World 2009

Politicians used to be right up there with priests and businessmen as hippie betes noires, but a couple of years back all of Washington was fessing up to having "experimented" with marijuana.

Twenty-Five Years Later, We're Still Living In Woodstock Nation 2008

Stormy, snobby Rosebery comes across as a more modern and human person than his better-known betes noire, Gladstone and Disraeli – more, indeed, like a less-driven Churchill, but with much sounder instincts for foreign policy.

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