Sentence examples for fruitcake of from inspiring English sources

This was such a fruitcake of a game that it's difficult to get my head around anything right now.

Carrie is a maddening fruitcake of a woman but her comic timing gives her the necessary spark of appeal.

"The Three Weissmanns of Westport" is a dense fruitcake of apposite references: I spotted Louisa May Alcott (Annie "is too fond of books.

But Mr. Velasquez-Manoff's ambitious compendium of data and supposition — a great dense fruitcake of a book whose 680 endnotes, the author notes apologetically, refer to only a minority of the 10,000 studies he consulted — spins it all out in the most positive possible way with an energy, eloquence and desire to believe that is both breathtaking and a little scary.

If resolutions are supposed to be about making some kind of change in your life, then mine were the "fruitcake" of change -- a holiday tradition that is not taken seriously and easily discarded.

Minnie, feverishly gift-wrapping packages in an unnamed department store, receives a Christmas bonus of fruitcake instead of cash.

The speeches of the orchidaceous playwright are never fruitcakes of bons mots.

Next came that slice of stale fruitcake "Helen of Troy" (1956), with Rossana Podestà.

In other areas you're just sort of looked on as some kind of fruitcake for fussing about it too much.

James C. Dobson, one of the most prominent evangelical leaders on the right, accused Mr. Obama last week of employing a deviant reading of Scripture and a "fruitcake interpretation of the Constitution" to justify his theology and world view.

Yes, you have to get those tins of fruitcake to your loved ones, but mail them.