How To Use Mencken In A Sentence
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Inspired by his hero H. L. Mencken, always on the lookout for hypocrisy, Thurman found it in the uneven way that color prejudice is applied to dark-skinned women.
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At the time of the first Kinsey study on sexuality, H.L. Mencken wrote, "All that humorless document really proves is (a) that all men lie when they are asked about their adventures in amour, and (b) that pedagogues are singularly naïve and credulous creatures.
Dirty talk? New sex survey's surprising stats
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Mencken remain inarguably correct in their assessment of the public's gullibility and appetite.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Season of the Witch
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(Wood had read H.L. Mencken's debunking of the American "booboisie" and, for a time, agreed with it.)
American Idol
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Mencken might have asked: How can one "radicalize" a Muslim when he is already "radicalized" by his creed?
The Rule of Reason
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But Twain, Howells, and James were jeeringly described by Mencken as " draft - dodgers ".
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It’s the story of a man-eating plant that eventually takes over the world, told in jaunty 1960s-style doo-wop, written by a little-known team called Ashman and Mencken who would eventually fade into obscurity after producing little-known Disney musicals like The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin.
It's Official
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Most people didn't recognize the quote, but Simpson was probably attempting to channel H.L. Mencken's line about government itself, which Mencken called "a milch-cow with 125 million teats" (the population of the United States at the time).
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Annoying Alan Simpson: The 310,000,001st Reason to Vote
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Henry Louis Mencken, American journalist, editor, critic.
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Whereas Twain on the warpath was a sharp shooting rifleman and Mencken laid about with the broadsword, Brooks's literary weapon is the tweezers.
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I've tried ‘Booblican’ for awhile, inspired by Mencken's booboisie, but it hasn't caught on.
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Henry Mencken, a resident of Metropolis, frequently walks past the monument on his way to work.
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PLAINTIFF'S ARGUMENT: Mencken argues that by placing a monument with a religious message on state-owned and -managed property, New Hudson establishes religion in violation of the First Amendment.
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PLAINTIFF'S ARGUMENT: Mencken argues that by placing a monument with a religious message on state-owned and -managed property, New Hudson establishes religion in violation of the First Amendment.
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H. L. Mencken, in his explorations into American linguistic usages once pointed out that ‘to get religion’ was an American coinage.
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At a rare soft moment in his life, H. L. Mencken was fetched by a novel penned by a madcap Englishman.
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Mencken was a controversial satirical journalist and pungent critic of American life.
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The material which eventually made it into Mencken's second chrestomathy was selected, revised, and annotated by Mencken himself.
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Henry Louis Mencken, American journalist, editor, critic.
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Mencken is the one who coined the word 'ecdysiast' in her honor, Abbott says.
NPR Topics: News
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The two decades mentioned saw articles and books by H.L. Mencken, who reflected a modern, mature view of language (and who coined the word ecdysiast for
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
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Against all odds, the Great Books joined the roster of postwar fads like drive-ins, hula hoops, and Mexican jumping beans … The Great Books initially scratched a cultural itch, but before long became synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and H.L. Mencken’s benighted boobocracy.
2009 February 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Tyrrell is best known now as an insane Clinton-basher, but he became sort of famous in the '70s by fancying himself the reincarnation of H.L. Mencken, writing a lot of Carter-bashing columns where he called everyone a "poltroon" or "the honorable" something.
Funditry
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Every normal man must be tempted at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. — H. L. Mencken.
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He was totally hipped on Mencken, knew quite a lot about him.
IN A STRANGE CITY
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Against all odds, the Great Books joined the roster of postwar fads like drive-ins, hula hoops, and Mexican jumping beans … The Great Books initially scratched a cultural itch, but before long became synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and H.L. Mencken’s benighted boobocracy.
2009 February 19 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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So distinct was her wit and elegant striptease, that H.L. Mencken coined the term "ecdysiast" to describe her high-class act.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door Theater Reviews: In Praise Of Patti LuPone, Gypsy, And South Pacific
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Mencken does not hold any religious beliefs and is angry that a monument owned and maintained by the state expresses support for particular religious beliefs.
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A few years before this, Swinburne's friend, the redoubtable equestrienne Adah Mencken, had complained to
'The Oxford Book of Parodies'
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The "booboisie," as Mencken often called them, have always been with us.
THE SCOPES TRIAL AND TODAY'S EVOLUTION BATTLES
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Sometimes a Mencken column went on for pages, and woe betide the subeditor who cut him.
Simon Jenkins: Half a Century After Mencken's Death, Opinion Is What is Riding High
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The wit of Mencken enlivened his age.
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Mencken argues that the Constitution does not permit the government to use its authority and resources to endorse or spread particular religious beliefs.
