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In some senses, boomerism is marked as US, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
enthusiastic
BOOMERISM + NOUN
american
PREP.
than
ADV.
then
noun
A 19th century movement which campaigned for the extension of the American frontier.
Boomerism, then, was the most recent expression of the westering American spirit.
Yet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida's Gold Coast.
An optimistic form of American capitalism that focuses on one industry.
So I side with the mystics and think that the mechanists are caught in the boomerism of American hypercapitalism and are simply hawking their wares. In this unreflective boomerism of American hypercapitalism, one has to hype one's project to attract venture capital.
А camp of techno-optimists rebuffs A.I. doomerism with old-fashioned libertarian boomerism, insisting that all the hand-wringing about existential risk is a kind of mass hysteria.
The behaviours and attitudes of baby boomers.
Be warned against the tendency to build your young lives around anti-boomerism. In the end, it will be you that gets hurt, not the boomers.
Examples include: Bob Hope providing a queered alternative to World War II mythologies of maleness (something already addressed by Steven Cohan); Ierry Lewis's manic “femininity” as a reaction to 1950 sexual conservatism (as explored by Frank Krutnik); John Belushi embracing the runaway consumption of 1970 maleness; Bill Murray displaying the evolving cynicism of disillusioned baby boomers; Adam Sandler depicting a childish rage as a rejection of boomerism; and Ferrell often performing lampoons of previous generations of machismo.
Boomerism, then, was the most recent expression of the westering American spirit.
WiktionaryYet if the boosterism of the “dollar decade” had a sounder basis in reality than did the boomerism of the 1880s, there was ballyhoo in generous measure all the way from the Mason-Dixon Line to Florida
WiktionaryThe hyper-masculinity, optimism and enthusiastic boomerism of the American frontier moulded the young Briton's character.
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In some senses, boomerism is marked as US, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.