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- n. The character or views of an old fogy; fondness for old or antiquated notions and ways.
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“But three kids, out of school and immediately bored, plus two teenaged houseguests, put the brakes on our budding old-fogyism in sharp order.”
“It is old-fogyism to be ignorant of that happiness-producing transformation which people everywhere are enjoying at this time.”
“It is easy to understand how important are such admissions when we recall how much this traditional view has been assailed, and how those who have held it have been accused of old-fogyism and lack of scholarship, and unwarranted clinging to antiquated notions just because they thought they were of faith, and how, lacking in true scholarship, seriously hampering genuine investigation, such conservatism has been declared to be.”
“The statesmanship of England pines for new blood, for ideas of the epoch, and the Russell old-fogyism will not do any more at all.”
“It is looked upon as a mark of old-fogyism, if not as an evidence of the absence of "spiritual religion!”
“Conservative tribune of the people, -- that he might be the realization of that hitherto hazy mixture of Radicalism and old-fogyism, of which we have lately heard from a political master, whose eloquence has been employed in teaching us that progress can only be expected from those whose declared purpose is to stand still.”
“But with this feeling of shame on one side, there was already springing up an idea among another class that Melmotte might become as it were a Conservative tribune of the people, — that he might be the realization of that hitherto hazy mixture of Radicalism and old-fogyism, of which we have lately heard from a political master, whose eloquence has been employed in teaching us that progress can only be expected from those whose declared purpose is to stand still.”
“Chamber of Deputies, "declaring that France was a victim of old-fogyism, and flattering themselves with the thought that they would infuse the vigor of youth into politics.”
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