Gandalfian

So toxic is the federal government these days that the House Minority Leader's master strategy for becoming Speaker rests on a Gandalfian plan to effectively halt all new regulations by putting them to a congressional vote (the almost-cleverly titled REINS Act).

Daniel Cluchey: In Defense of "Big" Government 2010

Considered by most on the right with a mystic, nearly Gandalfian awe, idolized even during his own terms and more broadly so after his passing.

Big Union Targets Swing States With Massive Obama-Not-Muslim Mailer Blitz 2009

Alain Galtier, a Frenchman with a splendid gray beard and a Gandalfian air, has occupied an open-air workshop here for the last five years, making stained-glass-and-papier-mâché windows and lamps for the hotel.

The Grateful Living 2007

Alain Galtier, a Frenchman with a splendid gray beard and a Gandalfian air, has occupied an open-air workshop here for the last five years, making stained-glass-and-papier-mâché windows and lamps for the hotel.

The Grateful Living 2007

Now Hy, of course, Gandalfian type that he was, liked to call his employer of last resort a yellow brick road to lasting "inflation control" -- which comes to the same thing, doesn't it?

Stop Me Before I Vote Again 2010