Example sentences for: nixonian

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

  • But the alarmist headline was a Nixonian trick--Nixonian in the sense of that president's notorious declaration, while prices were soaring in the early 1970s, that "we have slowed the rise in the rate of inflation."

  • Journal editorial-board member John H. Fund opines that many of John McCain's longtime GOP associates from Arizona--many of them now less-than-adoring of the senator--could have predicted McCain's Nixonian reaction to Monday's mildly critical NYT story (he accused the Bush campaign of "planting" the story in the Times to smear him; see yesterday's TP).

  • That's especially striking in view of Crowley's flagrant (oh, let's just say it, Nixonian ) stonewalling on the matter.

  • At a time when Clinton is being compared to Nixon, the report would be designed to make Starr look Nixonian.

  • The answer, I think, is that there has always been a Nixonian streak in Bob Dole, by which I mean a part of him which feels shut out of the closed circle of the Eastern establishment.


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