wankery

• “I figure the best way to realize the absurdity of wankery is to take part in it, and now that I’ve taken part in it, I can see how absurd it is and will continue to be.”

  But…

• “I had to look up the word 'wankery' because it sounded as though it might be rude and that would be so unlike you.”

  Where is Nick Clogg?: He Has

• “Enough with all this self-aggrandizement wankery bullshit.”

  Simon & Schuster: Get Laid or Die Trying

• “I think it's a wankery term invented by literati types who are too embarrassed to admit they're reading and/or writing fantasy.”

  Of work and epihpanies

• “Pretensions to classical education turn wonkery into wankery.”

  Matthew Yglesias » By Request: An Egyptian Gaza?

• “And of course, the reality is that even granting your Luntzian/Gingrichian wankery, even focusing obsessively on the worst (genuine) abuses of the past combined with modern fantasies peopled with ‘Sopranos’ actors or whatever, unionization is giving “people the chance to opt out of the working class altogether”; indeed, it was one of the major factors in creating widespread postWWII prosperity and a burgeoning middle class.”

  Matthew Yglesias » McConnell’s Middle Class

• “Regrettably, the otherwise terrific banjo-rocker "Anywhere" and another track or two are marred by guitar wankery and bombast on the bridges.”

  The Washington Post: Album review: Sara Evans's 'Stronger'

• “If women are targets or "pie" or "gullet" -- this writer is a wad of wankery, tacky ejaculate, unwittingly revealing what makes him screech and wee wee.”

  The Huffington Post: Carol Muske-Dukes: The Rules According to a Fraternity "Cocksman"

• “To wit, are all these threats of violence actual threats, or does their contingent nature make them instead pure partisan internet tough-guy wankery?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Slaughter Solution constitutional?

• “Since skylarker complained about my Spider-Man review as being "spoilery," I suppose I'm going to have to put the majority of this review under some wankery lj-cut.”

  Day in the Life of an Idiot

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