Example sentences for: fallovian

How can you use “fallovian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The word popped out: Fallovian . Could I have been witnessing the birth of an eponym--as wondrous a sight in its way as our recent glimpse of an island-in-the-making off the coast of Hawaii?

  • The 1996 elections had no sooner sloughed into despond than I came across the following sentence in an election-eve wrap-up by Michael Lewis in the New Republic . "There is no denying," Lewis wrote, in the finale to an antic "Campaign Journal" series that saw him parting the crowds around various presidential entourages with the prosthetic assistance of a television Steadycam on his shoulder, "that I was excited by working alongside Ted Koppel, driven less by a Fallovian desire to inform the public than a lust to become rich and famous."

  • Which leads us to what has inspired Culturebox's news-peg-less rant (in the best Fallovian tradition): the juxtaposition in the past weeks of two pieces of cultural reportage, U.S.

  • And Fallovian ? In this case, the contextual evidence suggested that Michael Lewis' coinage fell into the class of eponym known as a "derivative"--in this case, derived from a name, that of James Fallows, editor of U.S.


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