middle-of-the-roadism

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Noun
  • But what's really cool is how the movie brings those story lines together in a narrative filled with intriguing twists, gnarly kills, heroic sacrifices and a slew of nifty new Predator designs.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 7 June 2025
  • Readers of my deals stories will know that the sacrifice for these freebies is historically poor trade-in valuations compared to U.S. pricing.
    Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • If there’s another deficit, as seems likely, candidates who spent the past year preaching frugality will fare better than those pushing profligacy.
    John Seiler, Oc Register, 31 May 2025
  • As many early retirees know, a little frugality can shave years off the timeline.
    Joseph Drups, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Oldman’s face, set in brooding concentration, evokes a pained, vaguely incredulous mortification, which builds to a bitter, almost paralyzing ruefulness.
    Houman Barekat, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Hong again employs the long table-time takes that have witnessed the mortification of so many drunken characters, this time skewering Donghwa.
    Nicolas Rapold, Deadline, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Role models for digital moderation, much less asceticism, are in short supply.
    Jack Butler, National Review, 11 May 2025
  • Departments & Columns The Week The Week NR Editors Tariffs will either inaugurate a new era of asceticism or opulence.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • But the biblical term for self-denial – inui – has another meaning.
    Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The Ford Focus Electric, with its appealing, Euro-hatchback lines, lacks the frumpy feel of self-denial often associated with electric cars.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
Noun
  • Was this an austerity measure (less fabric) (but also, more fabric, due to the lack of nudity)?
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 24 May 2025
  • Significant austerity measures aren’t an option because it doesn’t get elected in D.C.
    Jesse Pound, CNBC, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • For many users, the old-school self-discipline pitch has lost its shine.
    Shannon Carroll, Quartz, 3 June 2025
  • Your willpower is at its maximum, so use this time to tackle tasks that require a lot of self-discipline.
    Luciana Paulise, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Still, progressive proponents of the ERA demanded that some legal loophole must exist to circumvent those restraints.
    Sarah Bedford, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
  • Intense hostility all around means that for now, neither Russia nor China is even willing to sit down to discuss nuclear restraints, in treaty form or otherwise.
    Matthew Bunn, The Conversation, 6 June 2025
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