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This case, so clearly outrageous, was a natural.
When his book "Outrageous!" was released, Barkley, a famous prattler, discovered that he couldn't take the heat, either, and famously announced that he had been misquoted.
Don't make the mistake of believing that her house "was a Roald Dahl sort of place," she writes, "and that Daddy, curmudgeonly and outrageous, was still at the core a comic figure".
Sure, ghostwriters have something to do with this, but at least "Outrageous!" was about Charles Barkley — a controversial N.B.A. Hall of Famer who played with and against some of the league's all-time greats.
Outrageous was the word used by Damien Hopley, the chief executive of the Rugby Players Association RPAPA), who sits on the Professional Game Board, the body which is reviewing the World Cup campaign and which received the three reports.
"Most outrageous" was the use of second-amendment as a verb, "to kill (someone) with a gun, used ironically by gun control supporters", followed by "God view", the "display mode used by ride-sharing service Uber providing employees with real-time information on all users".
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How outrageous is it?
Being "outrageous" is now the norm.
Even the outrageous is carefully reconfigured as normalcy.
Its sense of the outrageous is tepid at best.
Especially when what was once outrageous is now merely corny.
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