The multi-award winning singer told his fans that "beautiful Venice is indeed sinking, but not as fast as the boorishly bigoted Brugnaro".
The book was among 49 titles to be banned in schools by Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, prompting a backlash from residents, Italian authors and even Sir Elton John, who told his Instagram followers that "beautiful Venice is indeed sinking, but not as fast as the boorishly bigoted Brugnaro".
"Beautiful Venice is indeed sinking, but not as fast as the boorishly bigoted Brugnaro".
Louis Luyt was best known as the boorishly fractious South African rugby boss who briefly won kudos for the Springboks' 1995 World Cup victory, but soon fell out with the rest of the rugby world, his own players and with Nelson Mandela.
Over time, he became "arrogant and contemptuous, he could act boorishly and unprincipled," the former captain said.
She was the guest of honor on a cruise ship that spent a night circling New York Harbor — and was, I suppose, doing what President Bush later would boorishly characterize as "replenishing the old coffers" after leaving office.
For children, especially, Carroll's stories are appealing because they seem to operate according to a special logic that adults (quite boorishly) refuse to accept.
The chief lobster-render and cigar-chomper boorishly grabs a waiter by the arm: "Hey waiter, bring us a bottle of your very best Champagne".
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton have been political figures all along, from their Arkansas days to Washington — fair game, as it were — but did what they could to keep their daughter out of it (and Rush Limbaugh arguably got the worst of it when he boorishly went after her on his show).
They admitted they had behaved boorishly, but insisted they had not insulted any tourists.
On court, he occasionally careens from appealingly edgy to boorishly rude.
