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  • And in a robust combination of resilience and denial that is peculiarly, particularly boomerish, even happy and satisfied.

    Boom and Gloom (The Boomer Blog) 2008

  • If you're of boomerish vintage, you know that plenty of stoned debates about the meaning of the movie's strange conclusion followed its initial release (I know, I know: you didn't inhale).

    Marty Kaplan: Ice on Mars: Good for the Jews? 2008

  • I find the name-calling thing so ridiculously baby-boomerish of you.

    The new, practicing Catholic, Kate Millet Terry Nelson 2007

  • Recorded mainly on acoustic baritone guitar, without accompaniment, it features an array of baby boomerish standards, by the likes of Carly Simon, Burt Bacharach and the Beatles.

    NYT > Home Page By NATE CHINEN 2011

  • Recorded mainly on acoustic baritone guitar, without accompaniment, it features an array of baby boomerish standards, by the likes of Carly Simon, Burt Bacharach and the Beatles.

    NYT > Home Page By NATE CHINEN 2011

  • These essays are "a relatively new idea, and very baby boomerish," he says.

    NYT > Home Page By DWIGHT GARNER 2011

  • As with all things great and boomerish — the rock music of the 60s, the civil-rights movement, Rolling Stone magazine in its heyday — the magnitude of Chez Panisse’s achievements is tempered by a certain cloying self-aggrandizement.

    Cooking Up a Storm Kamp, David 2006

  • As with all things great and boomerish — the rock music of the 60s, the civil-rights movement, Rolling Stone magazine in its heyday — the magnitude of Chez Panisse’s achievements is tempered by a certain cloying self-aggrandizement.

    Cooking Up a Storm Kamp, David 2006

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