This is worth remembering today, when political correctness is usually diagnosed as a leftwing complaint – an overdose of right-on trendiness causing spontaneous outbreaks of Winterval and "trigger warnings".
The IOC's decision to fast-track slopestyle's admission to the Olympics was almost certainly prompted by a desire to capitalise on snowboarding's growing trendiness.
Similarly, while the job-creation scheme otherwise known as the Royal Air Force is braced to lose about 7,000 people, independent analysts reckon that 14,000 could go without any reduction in effectiveness.The trendiness is apparent in the fashionable obsession with American theories that may not be easy to adapt to British circumstances.
Such dumbing-down is self-defeating, they say: studies show again and again that a broad, rich and balanced curriculum, far from distracting from the basics, is actually a prerequisite for high standards in them.The independent team are particularly scathing about their rival's "areas of learning", in which they detect a deplorable educational trendiness.
There may turn out to be a trade-off between trendiness and sheer size.
A long-term Labour activist, he choreographed Tony Blair's glossy if sterile party conferences and produced political broadcasts.Too cool for schoolBy the late 1990s he was associated with (or implicated in) "Cool Britannia", a label attached to a government bid to promote the country's supposed trendiness.
JASON BAPTISTE notes:If you spent the money on an original iPod in 2001 on Apple stock ($499), you would have $14,513.78 today.But without those white earbuds, how would you have signalled your trendiness?
Then you'd be richer and thinner, with no lost trendiness.
But as the 20th century gave way to the 21st, Benetton lost its way: it failed to "tap into trendiness," reporting generally flat revenues between 2001 and 2006.
It was probably the trendiness of the viol that attracted Sir Andrew Aguecheek to the instrument.
But for all these strenuous attempts at trendiness, there's something stolidly old-fashioned about the place: it's the mullioned windows, perhaps, or the long service table that dominates the middle of the room.
