Example sentences for: clintonesque

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  • Our editor suggested to me yesterday that it's a somewhat Clintonesque marriage--Tony has a mistress whom he fucks rather joylessly and with whom he never has an actual conversation, but he's really dependent on his wife (although unlike with our president, you have the sense that Tony screws around mostly because that's what mob bosses are supposed to do rather than out of real need).

  • The WP is good on the particular politics of Clinton's Social Security proposals, saying that it is classically Clintonesque in that it preserves the program's size but only by accepting something that was anathema to earlier Democrats--partial privatization.

  • This is not a completely untenable proposition, since, as Shesol demonstrates, toward the end of his life Kennedy began to experiment with some uncannily Clintonesque gestures, such as financing urban renewal through market-based public-private partnerships.

  • At times, Lewinsky's dexterity is eerily Clintonesque.

  • Ed Bryant, R-Tenn., tries to get her to implicate Clinton in subornation of perjury--particularly in a Dec. 17, 1997, phone call and a Dec. 28, 1997, meeting--she repeatedly foils Bryant's plan not with lies but with Clintonesque verbal tricks.


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