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How To Use Finger-pointing In A Sentence

  • MO 'BITTER BLUES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' MO\ 'BITTER BLUES'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Clarence Thomas\' autobiography, is a vivid and dramatic display of obfuscatory finger-pointing which is why it probably should be ignored. ' MO' BITTER BLUES
  • I thought you might as well hear it from me first (although I gather a certain Austrian gentleman has been circulating a rumour about it!) as I can foresee some finger-wagging, not to mention finger-pointing. C is for Coursebook (by Lindsay Clandfield) « An A-Z of ELT
  • What they have done, however, is turn the sleepy municipal bond industry into a caldron of backbiting and finger-pointing.
  • Officers won't be finger-pointing and nannying but having some banter with the teenagers.
  • I think these are issues in which finger-pointing is really an easy reaction.
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  • However, finger-pointing is not going to solve what is an incredibly complex issue.
  • There is no need for us on the right to wring our hands about the finger-pointing that is happening in the media.
  • The latest in a series of hearings scrutinizing for-profit higher education also produced the most intense partisan finger-pointing to date and new data claiming many schools are a revolving door of dropouts and new recruits. For-Profit Colleges Hit Again In Senate Hearings
  • They're not interested in being nasty or finger-pointing or political.
  • But now with one quality control fiasco after another, it seems like finger-pointing for misdirection from the real problem. Smug Ugly - Anil Dash
  • There is a lot of name-calling and finger-pointing at the expense of issues.
  • The commission's report will prompt finger-pointing in various directions, to little purpose.
  • What struck me most, however, given my day of finger-pointing, screwed-up faces and unreceptive ears, was how the speaker came to explain Pollock's work in the simplest of terms.
  • There has been speculation and finger-pointing, controversy and confusion.
  • they want all the finger-pointing about intelligence failures to stop
  • If not, you can expect more finger-pointing about who is to blame for the inaction.
  • The much-anticipated finger-pointing began after the home loss - with players griping about the way teammates complain to the officials, playing time and chemistry.
  • In my high school, I was the target of much finger-pointing and whispering as I walked around the campus.
  • Meanwhile, among partisans of the losing candidate, there is the consolation of finger-pointing.
  • Given the fragile and unbalanced global recovery, countries should resist the temptation to engage in finger-pointing or blame shifting.
  • And as a result of all of them not appearing to have the requisite "leadership" qualities and skills to engender trust, confidence or respect, they have deteriorated to sniping, finger-pointing and warning us of the dire consequences should their opponents be elected. Mark Goulston, M.D.: Electorate 2010 -- "Cynics 'R' Us"
  • I know there's going to be a lot of investigations down the road, a lot of finger-pointing.
  • There's no fussing, no fist-pounding, no nay-saying, finger-pointing, whining or otherwise ungentlemanly or unlady-like conduct to be noted.
  • As we used a few or our own fingers to point out yesterday, there is no lack of finger-pointing on behalf of this administration.
  • On the school bus, though, Nina and Zina chafe under the teasing and finger-pointing about their foreign accents and clothes.
  • We oppose the practice of finger-pointing among countries or strong-arm measures to force other countries to appreciate currencies," he told reporters last month. Geithner delays report, sidesteps China currency policy
  • And Washington could not have chosen a worse moment than now for a paroxysm of finger-pointing.
  • Despite distrust and finger-pointing by mob members, the explanation was accepted by Licavoli. Kill the Irishman
  • [w] hat has still to be digested is a romanticism that no amount of ideology finger-pointing will allow us to evade, a romanticism that undertakes a reflection on the relation of historical knowledge and aesthetic understanding" (SU, 60). Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence
  • Attention to such matters has led to both sloppy filiopietistic triumphalism and much uninformed finger-pointing. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • Nature decided to put an abrupt end to our finger-pointing conspiracy theorists' dialogue, when a deafening fart emptied from the anus of someone soundly asleep downstairs.
  • Anyone who reads this newsgroup can see at a glance what's wrong: finger-pointing and recriminations dominate the discussion.
  • In the year that gave us BP's Gulf oil spill and the presumed end of the prolonged healthcare reform battle, my mind is tingling over the newest finger-pointing saga that has been unfolding among venture capitalists and "super angels" in Silicon Valley. Pedro L. Rodriguez: Michael Arrington: Persona non Grata? Behold 'AngelGate'
  • Those of a cynical nature are saying that President Obama's and Vice President Biden's remarks early in the week about the "whining" from the Left are merely setting up a finger-pointing exercise for the aftermath of the midterm election -- the White House shifting blame, in other words, beforehand. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [141] -- Rahm's Exit Contest Winner Announced
  • And Washington could not have chosen a worse moment than now for a paroxysm of finger-pointing.
  • This is a time for recrimination and finger-pointing!
  • I'm used to the use of scapegoating and demonization and finger-pointing as a mechanism to divert or distract from problem-solving. Weingarten for the Union Defense
  • Internal bickering and finger-pointing plagued the team after it was eliminated from the World Cup.
  • Fragmentation of rule writing, supervision and enforcement led to finger-pointing in place of effective action.
  • CNN's Brianna Keilar reports on the finger-pointing between the major players involved in the Gulf Coast oil spill. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
  • During submissions on penalty, the prosecution said the company had a 'slapdash' approach to maintenance, had shown no remorse and embarked on a finger-pointing exercise during the trial. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • Though monumentally long, it rarely drags, and today feels less like a finger-pointing exercise than a penetrating study of human nature.
  • And I must say the name-calling and finger-pointing and blame asserting is not constructive.
  • John, the finger-pointing has really been going on for quite a few days, though.
  • The finger-pointing and the blaming, perhaps that's a defense mechanism on Gary's part.
  • The nation needed to be united in its determination and could not afford to surrender to finger-pointing.

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