kabuki

• “Vogel deserves a medal for writing two pages on this without one use of the word "kabuki.”

  The Huffington Post: HUFFPOST HILL - Much-Needed White Guy Enters 2012 GOP Primary

• “I agree with the theories that it would make a lot of sense if this was all kabuki from the start.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stupak Conundrum: Why Did the Stupakites Change Their Positions on the Health Care Bill in Exchange for a Meaningless Executive Order?

• “Of course not, well maybe to the point of engaging in kabuki theater to convince the gullible Democrats that Alito and Roberts were just umpires and not activists from the bench …”

  Think Progress » Lieberman satisfied by prospect that Obama nominee could make Supreme Court ‘slightly less liberal.’

• “I mean this looks like -- I use the expression kabuki dance, to talk about rather well-orchestrated nonsense, but is this just another kabuki dance brought to you courtesy of the Bush administration?”

  CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2008

• “In American politics this protest is the type of thing that is sometimes called a kabuki dance, a show of passion and interest that everyone knows is staged and that nobody, even those claiming to be outraged, takes seriously.”

  Japan’s war guilt

• “I guess in kabuki there’s often an inaka girl and a machi, or city, girl.”

  August 2006

• “Since the word kabuki is believed to derive from the verb kabuku, meaning "to lean" or "to be out of the ordinary", kabuki can be interpreted as "avant-garde" or "bizarre" theatre. [”

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• “The confirmation process has been called a kabuki dance as opposed to being a real look at the nominee," said Kinports, who clerked on the Supreme Court.”

  Penn State Live

• “We spent most of our days — and nights — performing a kind of kabuki, pretending to do work for bosses who must have known that they had no work for us to do.”

  Why Goldman Always Wins

• “Outside the Senate chamber, Mr. Steinberg shook his head when asked about Schwarzenegger's "kabuki" comment.”

  The Wall Street Journal: In Sacramento, Debate and Theatrics but No Budget

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