("The poor — the slaves who really stoop under the burden of life — have often been mad, scatter-brained and cruel, but never hopeless. That is a class privilege, like cigars. Their drivelling literature will always be a 'blood and thunder' literature, as simple as the thunder of heaven and the blood of men").
While some find Shupen's views elitist, there is no denying that this revolutionary method of letting the people who make our entertainment know how soon and how often we have completely checked out of their unforgivable drivel will have far-reaching repercussions.
You've got a name tag, too, so tourists can mispronounce your name when posing their inane, drivelling questions.
Imagine if anyone else in public life said that a document they had put their name to, and called their own, was "drivel" and tried to avoid awkward questions by pretending that they had never read it.
No guns, no weapons of mass destruction, no robotic drones, none of the crap the wimpy egg-headed, blow-hard right wingers hide behind when puffing out their fat beer-gutted bellies and oinking their slobbering piggish drivel.
The voice he had in mind was Susan Sontag's in The New Yorker, who had denounced those writers outraged by the terrorist attack for what she called their "self-righteous drivel".
If his political characters tend to speechify a bit too prettily, speaking in theses and talking points, just think what pleasure it must be for a long-time Washington journalist to finally put decent words into politicians' mouths, rather than dutifully recording their usual pontificating drivel.
Her character struck a nerve with viewers familiar with such corporate drivel in their own working environments.
Most of them are illiterate, poorly imagined drivel, exploiting their readers' insecurities with an easy self-pity, a smattering of designer labels and a low-grade, cynical complicity.
Now, I don't even have to imagine; I just tune in to Diggnation, where two such creatures sit side by side on a sofa, drinking beer, staring at their computers and talking drivel.
