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  • It's a tired, bad, old-fogeyish piece.
  • "It used to be old-fogeyish, " he said of the color.
  • Now Spielberg, the ultimate success story from the generation known as the Movie Brats, is sounding slightly fogeyish.
  • In Sarasota, many Older Persons fill their time doing volunteer work, performing in community theater, becoming active in local politics or otherwise flitting about in a decidedly un-old-fogeyish way.
  • While Guinness points out that he can be an " old-fogeyish " snob _ he seems disappointed that a salesgirl at a Tower Records in London hasn't heard of Richard Rodney Bennett's Percussion Concerto, and worse, suffers from bad diction _ it's clear to the reader that he also possesses a wonderful gift of enthusiasm.
  • Kala ( voiced by Glenn Close ) is still his ape mom, Kerchak ( Lance Henriksen ) is still the fearsome king ape, Tantor ( Wayne Knight ) is still the elephant, Jane ( Minnie Driver ) is still the bosomy squeeze, Clayton ( Brian Blessed ) is still the blowhard rival and Professor Porter ( Nigel Hawthorne ) is still Jane's fogeyish, well-meaning pop.
  • A review of the book in " The Guardian " claims " the argument it makes is important and original " but says that " in places it is also unfair, light on evidence and repetitively polemical . " It also claims the book " relies too heavily on setting up straw men, " and finds that while the authors are pro-welfare and anti-unfettered business, their " dislike of the capitalist fixation with youth culture . . . comes close to a fogeyish distaste for youth culture itself " and they " sound as nostalgic as any conservative newspaper columnist for the world before the 60s . " Additionally, the review claims the authors focus too much on North America, ignoring the " more paternalistic and less fashion-fixated " capitalism and non-commodified dissent in other parts of the world.