Sentence examples for bah from inspiring English sources
Fortunately your more balanced leader on Mr Ackermann did not state the same position ("The trials of Josef A", January 7th).Mitja MüllerBremen, GermanyHappy unionSIR – I take issue with the religious right wanting to ban gay marriage and I believe that we should all be in favour of same-sex nuptials ("Bah, humbug", December 24th).
(He did the same, in retirement, on "Forbes on Fox", where his "Bah! Overvalued!" kept TV audiences alert).
Somalia calling Ho ho ho Reprints Related items Discovering the truth about Santa Claus: The travellers' taleDec 20th 2005 The politics of Christmas: Bah, humbugDec 20th 2005Of course, Christmas has to grapple with the fundamental uncertainties affecting all modern industries.
Maybe David Paterson, New York's governor, is onto something with his soda tax after all.Nadiya Pustovoytova finds that some Ukrainians are able to turn a profit by targeting the thrifty.And the recession elicits yet another "bah humbug".
For instance, with sounds such as "bah" and "dah", the "b" and "d" sounds are succeeded by the "ah" after an interval of roughly 40 milliseconds.
A sheep bleats the rhythm bah bah.— By Ernst Toller (1893-1939) Translated from the German by Peter Appelbaum .
Similarly, the wit in a throwaway line about Stephen Rattner funding a think tank which may hire Mr Clinton relies on the knowledge that (1) Mr Rattner, the big pooh-bah of Lazard Freres, is a major Martha's Vineyard party-giver; (2) Mr Clinton is a major Martha's Vineyard free-loader; and (3) the two of them have been scratching each other's back for years.
My personal festive movie moment – for the sheer grace and mischief of its bah-humbuggery – is the scene in Joe Dante's just-reissued Gremlins (1984) in which the heroine, Kate Phoebe Catess), explains why she doesn't like Christmas.
MUCK OUT AT SPITALFIELDS CITY FARM Given the smells and the sounds – it's all quack-quack, oink-oink, bah-bah round here – emanating from Spitalfield City Farm (Buxton Street, E1 5HJ; 020-7247 8762; spitalfieldscityfarm.org), you'd be surprised to learn that you're less than a mile from the Square Mile.
His voice rising like an escalator, he scat-sang, "Du-bah, da-bah, du-bah, da-bah, du-bah, da-bah, dah".
McCaughey is the former policy worker who, in a transformation worthy of Cinderella, became the Lieutenant Governor of New York in January; Ross is an investment banker, Democratic fund-raiser, and cultural pooh-bah.
