Potterism

They're up against what we agreed to call Potterism -- the Potterism, that is, of second-rate sentimentalism and cheap short-cuts and mediocrity; they stand for brain and clear thinking against muddle and cant; but they're fighting it with Potterite weapons -- self-interest, following things for what they bring them rather than for the things in themselves.

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

My best reading has been William James 'Letters; and that which amused me most a new novel, entitled Potterism, by Rose

Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin Knight Lane 1892

Add to it the ill-starred influence he had always attempted to exert over Johnny and Jane (he had, even in Oxford days, brought out their worst side) his quarrels with Oliver in the press, his unconcealed hatred of what he was pleased to call 'Potterism'

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

I believe that I may be the only literate or semi-literate in the world not planning to stay up to midnight tonight to achieve possession of the latest Potterism.

Definition of a minority jhetley 2005

That just shows, Jane, how infectious a thing Potterism is.

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

The others were scrupulously fair in not attributing to them, because they happened to be Potters by birth, more Potterism than they actually possessed.

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

'That church,' he said, 'is the most unpleasant piece of Potterism I have seen for some time.

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

Personally, I can forgive Potterism everything but that.

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

And, as I have said, the whole incident is only mentioned to illustrate how Potterism lurks in secret places, and flaunts in open places, pervading the whole fabric of human society.

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919

It is the Potterism in all of us which at every turn checks and drags it down.

Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract Rose Macaulay 1919