"What with this war and all, wouldn't you think that stinker would call me up to see if I was dead or alive?" View Article By David Remnick By Jelani Cobb By Jia Tolentino By Sam Knight.
By one of his counts, "The Gallery" was actually his ninth novel; he wrote one pretty much every summer, first at Andover, then at Harvard, then at Loomis, books that even his friends conceded were unpublishable — nasty, nihilistic and narcissistic things populated with characters his own agent once called "stinkers".
The presence of a car on our turkey list is not a condemnation of the vehicle, because thanks to improved manufacturing and higher standards few cars these days can be called complete stinkers.
I have an awful feeling I called the CO a stinker – it was one of those religious arguments about whether the popes had mistresses.
Most of the time it is verbal, apart from David Storey who walloped the Guardian's Michael Billington after he called Mother's Day a stinker.
Charles Spencer, writing in The Telegraph about a production at the Young Vic in 2008, called the play "an utter stinker" with "glib Marxist sermonising". Obviously, I don't agree, though I think Brecht sets up a straw man of goodness – a "Saint Never-to-Be," as one of one of the characters sings.
This latest bond — to be called Proposition 1 — will replace the former stinker, which was saturated with fatback to attract legislative votes as sleep-deprived lawmakers and then-Gov.Arnold Schwarzenegger bargained all night.
Drew Fetherston, reviewing the movie for Newsday, called it "claptrap" and that "action is all that this NBC stinker has to offer".
1158 - WI 152-4: A stinker of a delivery from Bresnan slips out of the hand, and is remarkably not called a wide.
In case you missed it, The Sun called Cameron's deal "a steaming pile of manure", "a derisory offer" and "a stinker" that's "an abject defeat on immigration".
