• Current articles combine investigative reporting with a sensibility that is adolescent, male, and proudly boorish.

    NEWYORKER: The Bad-Boy Brand

  • He noted that mobile phones were only one potential source of boorish behaviour in the theatre.

    BBC: New York bans mobiles in theatres

  • Kelly's profile of the senator brimmed with booze, blondes and boorish fumbles on restaurant floors.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • That is not to excuse the boorish, thoughtless or vile activities of powerful men who should have known better.

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  • Whereas the Qassam Brigades once ruled the roost, Hamas's boorish interior minister, Fathi Hamad, now wants his own forces to do so.

    ECONOMIST: The Gaza Strip

  • That may have been the most diplomatic term ever used to describe the boorish, bellowing fans who inhabit what is often called the Bronx Zoo.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | New King In Town

  • IR So The Economist, masquerading as a pseudo-intellectual print medium, has shown its true colours as a boorish tabloid, with its reprehensible obituary of Diana, Princess of Wales.

    ECONOMIST: Diana

  • So, if Mr. Dimon is coming across as another boorish Wall Street fat cat, then the question is: Who will step up to the role of industry spokesman?

    WSJ: Writing on the Wall: The Next James Dimon

  • Olivier moves in what boorish Americans regard as civilised society.

    ECONOMIST: New fiction 2

  • Despite his one-time success, the Australian sporting public has never really taken to Lleyton Hewitt, largely because of his on-court petulance and a few well-publicised incidents of boorish behaviour.

    BBC: Just the Tomic

  • His victory came not so much because he campaigned brilliantly, but more because Mr Meciar lost his cool in a televised debate between the rounds, reminding voters what a boorish old bully he was.

    ECONOMIST: An upset winner of Slovakia's presidency

  • It's particularly boorish to communicate sensitive matters anonymously.

    CNN: Test your e-mail etiquette

  • Gareth Saxe is appropriately boorish as Chip Bohlen, the American CIA agent who intrudes upon the Russians' gathering with clumsy bonhomie, his not-so-subtle threats putting a face to the general feeling of U.S. government dominance.

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  • When he entered the Knesset in 1973 many thought him dull and boorish, and were surprised that he made a decent Speaker and, in 1980, a foreign minister with a genuine and knowledgeable interest in foreign affairs.

    ECONOMIST: Yitzhak Shamir

  • Sure enough, Mr. Hare's unhappy lovers embody England's latter-day class conflicts: Tom (Brian Mani) is a nouveau-riche Thatcherite entrepreneur with a boorish streak, while Kyra (Greta Wohlrabe) is a chastened idealist who has renounced her upper-middle-class background to teach poor children.

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  • To the contrary, I express a sentiment that I have heard from a vast number of women, who collectively have said that your recent article entitled "Don't Marry a Career Woman" was read with disgust, disdain, and pity for a group of people who could be so utterly insensitive and boorish in approving such slanderous filth.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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