Sentence examples for Mugwump from inspiring English sources
noun
An independent neutral politician, especially in reference to the 1884 U.S. presidential election.
Chicago prefers a "down" style for the names of political and cultural movements (anarchist, mugwump, abstract expressionism), but this is possibly due to the desire to have a sleeker and more modern-looking page, for the rule runs into hard cases rather quickly.
In the quaint and yet periodically relevant terms of the Gilded Age, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a captain of industry who turned into a Mugwump.
(Editor's note: according to Jacob's caption, that is; technically a mugwump is a person who remains neutral, politically – or a supporter of Grover Cleveland in 1884. At any rate, it's a great word).
Splice is a weird one; a Cronenbergian body-horror romp from Vincenzo Natali that occupies a strange space between the sexual scrunge of Shivers and Rabid and the surreal mugwump mutations of The Naked Lunch.
By George Packer In the quaint and yet periodically relevant terms of the Gilded Age, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a captain of industry who turned into a Mugwump.
A personal note in punctuation of this point: in 1984, Graham told me she had no patience with the mugwump congressman John Anderson's third-party presidential candidacy that year, in challenge to the languors of the Mondale-Reagan contest.
Really, though, Frank is closer to being an old-fashioned mugwump-style Progressive.
Doherty and Elliot performed with the short-lived rock group the Mugwumps before joining the Mamas and the Papas, whose cascading harmonies were featured in the hit songs "California Dreamin'" (1965), "Monday, Monday" (1966), and "Creeque Alley" (1967).
He encouraged reform-minded Republicans, commonly referred to as Mugwumps, to support the presidential candidacy of Democrat Grover Cleveland in 1884.
In the Presidential election of 1884, the Mugwumps, fed up with corruption at the city, state, and national levels, refused to support the Republican machine candidate, James Blaine — a move that may have tilted the race to the Democratic winner, Grover Cleveland.
Updated at 11.08pm BST 10.55pm BST Antique Americana Heading due east now on 12 towards those big red rocks, we had to stop … Mugwumps.
