Example sentences for: clift

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  • "Charming rogue, closer to Huck Finn than Satan," dissents Eleanor Clift.

  • "Storm-trooper tactics," says Al Hunt ( Capital Gang ); "Overstepped the bounds," complains Morton Kondracke ( The McLaughlin Group ). Newsweek 's Eleanor Clift ( McLaughlin Group ) sees a supreme perversity--Starr is the one suborning perjury, she charges.

  • No, it isn't, says Clift, who doesn't think Americans are overly upset by sex-related cover-ups.

  • Except for Eleanor Clift (PBS's McLaughlin Group ), most pundits think the Bush interview was--in the words of William Safire (NBC's Meet the Press ), Bob Novak (CNN's Capital Gang ), and Margaret Carlson ( Capital Gang )--"gotcha journalism."

  • Saddam is now "better off" (Al Hunt, CNN's Capital Gang ), having divided the allies (Steve Roberts, CNN's Late Edition ) and gained "a new international legitimacy" (Paul Gigot, NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ). The return to the status quo ante has politically isolated the United States (Gigot; John McLaughlin, The McLaughlin Group ). Second prize was awarded to Russia, for insinuating itself into the dispute and re-establishing its power base in the Middle East (Eleanor Clift and Pat Buchanan, The McLaughlin Group ). William Safire on NBC's Meet the Press moaned that the week's events marked "the beginning of the Baghdad/Moscow axis," in which the impoverished Russians would rearm the Iraqis in return for oil.


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