petersonian

Of or relating to Oscar Peterson (1925–2007), Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

The group’s peek-a-boo playfulness and heart-on-sleeve swingingness is a joy. So, too, are Galloway’s wonderful Hodges-esque soprano, Jones’ peppery Petersonian pianistics, and […]

Eric Reed was a curious choice as pianist, since his busy Petersonian attack is the antithesis of Lewis’s, but he acquitted himself with panache, interpolating a neat Erroll Garner passage into “La Cantatrice.”

Of or relating to Peter G. Peterson (1926–2018), American investment banker who served as US Secretary of Commerce from 1972 to 1973.

(See Guardian, 1/4/10, for Dean Baker's debunking of the piece's Petersonian economics.)

What about the debt load we’re supposedly imposing on future generations? This is another transparently Petersonian feat of sleight of hand, based on the assertion that while it’s we who incur the debt, it’s our children who will have to pay if off.

Of or relating to Jordan Peterson (born 1962), Canadian clinical psychologist, social critic, and internet personality.

2016 November 26, @PorphyCoon, “It's just a bad, ideological religion (in the Petersonian sense), not the old Christendom.”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 21 February 2022, retrieved 21 February 2022.

Peterson said several times on Thursday night that a healthy society needs debate, including between right and left. But it's hard to say what legitimate leftism might look like, in a Petersonian world.