Examples of parlor game in a Sentence
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The parlor game of global South leadership also pulls focus from the real challenges facing small and medium-sized states.
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Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
At its most petty and oversimplified, the fascism question became yet another way for the left to play one of its oldest parlor games: progressives accusing other progressives of being useful idiots for centrism.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
Married guys gather at someone’s house to play a parlor game, drink beer and talk.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
Instead of the dour, moralistic tales that were considered appropriate nursery fare at the time, Dodgson served up absurdist takes on Victorian England’s polite tea parties, its eccentric dons, its gossipy news stories, its popular poems, songs, dances, and parlor games.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2024
In every generation, some novelist attempts to write one, to the chagrin of critics and scholars, who tend to find the concept at best a middlebrow parlor game and at worst exclusionary.
—Ryan Ruby, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
Projecting the future of economic growth is, unfortunately, more than a parlor game.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
Advertisement The Savoyard in this play is Tiberius Spriggs, a foppish 1920s-era theater critic who invites five unsuspecting theater folks and fans to his London flat for a murder-mystery parlor game.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
The pop-culture charade — a Beltway parlor game — finds Politico imitating lowbrow tabloids, like that Us magazine feature showing media stars shopping so readers will think that celebrities are just like them.
—Armond White, National Review, 8 Sep. 2023
Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024
At its most petty and oversimplified, the fascism question became yet another way for the left to play one of its oldest parlor games: progressives accusing other progressives of being useful idiots for centrism.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
Married guys gather at someone’s house to play a parlor game, drink beer and talk.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
Instead of the dour, moralistic tales that were considered appropriate nursery fare at the time, Dodgson served up absurdist takes on Victorian England’s polite tea parties, its eccentric dons, its gossipy news stories, its popular poems, songs, dances, and parlor games.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2024
In every generation, some novelist attempts to write one, to the chagrin of critics and scholars, who tend to find the concept at best a middlebrow parlor game and at worst exclusionary.
—Ryan Ruby, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2023
Projecting the future of economic growth is, unfortunately, more than a parlor game.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
Advertisement The Savoyard in this play is Tiberius Spriggs, a foppish 1920s-era theater critic who invites five unsuspecting theater folks and fans to his London flat for a murder-mystery parlor game.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
The pop-culture charade — a Beltway parlor game — finds Politico imitating lowbrow tabloids, like that Us magazine feature showing media stars shopping so readers will think that celebrities are just like them.
—Armond White, National Review, 8 Sep. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1854, in the meaning defined above
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“Parlor game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parlor%20game. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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