Words similar to name-dropping

Example sentences for: name-dropping

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Or the constant name-dropping: my old roommate, Stinky, is the papal nuncio.
In his best core-curriculum name-dropping style, Will compared Miss Manners on the civilizing power of social convention to Plato, Burke, Lincoln, Metternich, the Founding Fathers, and Pope Pius IX.
The most apt description of Ellis' achievement comes from Rhonda Lieberman in the Village Voice , who says that in this portrait of "post-macho," name-dropping, Prada-clad male models, Ellis "captures a cultural moment of radical dandyhood."
The tone is uneven: Dunne jerks from moralistic pronouncements on O.J.'s guilt to smarmy name-dropping with the ease of an evangelical hack.
The etiquette expert doesn't want to be mistaken for a Tory stick-in-the-mud--she's all-American, she's egalitarian, she's up-to-date--but she's become a self-important, name-dropping crusader in the civility wars herself.