viragos

Latest from Radio 4's manic emailing viragos, touching on loneliness, breast cancer and homelessness.

Sue Arnold's audiobook choice | reviews 2011

In this she was quite unlike the rest of the girls and women of the Folk, who were born viragos.

CHAPTER X 2010

It made her wonder if such extreme kindness in men brought out the worst in their women, turning potential pussycats into cruel viragos.

One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

It made her wonder if such extreme kindness in men brought out the worst in their women, turning potential pussycats into cruel viragos.

One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

The contemporaries of half our fiercest viragos of fifty, may assure you that, at fifteen, they were all softness and sweetness.

Camilla 2008

She's got her sights set on Hillary Clinton, and it's going to get ugly, with the hurling of dangerous words like viragos and cathexis and — my personal favorite — "sycophantish":

Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007

Aside from the stylish Huma Abedin, there's definitely something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign -- sometimes to her detriment, as with the recent ham-handed playing of the clichéd gender card.

Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007

"Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."

Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007

Both shows depict “real” women as little better than bitchy, competitive, backstabbing viragos obsessed with their looks and incapable of conversation topics that run deeper than their own lip gloss.

"Crowned": The CW's Beauty and the...Eek! 2007

Between the towering fashion models, overachieving career viragos and basketball-player-sized transsexuals, there are more oversized chicks with giant trotters per square mile than anywhere else in the world.

Brava for Big-Footed Broads! 2007