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Example sentences for: armchair

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A major reason the Gore campaign is so garrulous is that they are top-heavy with armchair generals who want to retain their credibility with the press in case the vice-president loses.
Second, disagree as one might with the highhanded approach taken by the Oakland Unified School District, the linguistic challenge confronting urban schools defies armchair comprehension.
She, like Blitzer and every other armchair pundit, watched the interview on television.
Matisse famously said that a painting should be like a comfortable armchair.
Vladimir Nabokov's taxonomies of Latin American butterflies, long disparaged as armchair entomology, turn out to be top-drawer science, according to a recent article in the New York Times . In the 1940s, the émigré novelist held a part-time job at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and published the first attempted classification of an obscure group of blue butterflies known as Polyommatini . For years, Nabokov's study attracted more attention from literary critics than from scientists.