Sentences with phrase «good spin doctor»
You would think that with all of the millions of dollars they waste on the campaign, they could hire a good spin doctor!
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Italy's excuse that the crucifix is part of its national heritage is typical Italian spin - doctoring to make sure the symbol stays up and to make sure they stay on good terms with Pope Benny.
The formulas are by now well known: In an age of sound bites and spin doctors, we are unable to make real choices between policy alternatives.
11:49 - George Eustice, the Tory MP who used to be Cameron's spin doctor in chief, bugs the now very long - winded Ian Davidson for being part of the «better late than never» group of Labour MPs who belatedly opposed New Labour's plans to join the euro (Labour Against The Euro, you see).
Towler is known in SW1 as a resilient and good - humoured spin doctor who once hauled a candidate off the beach in Margate.
They have an army of so - called «analysts» whose job it is to surf the internet 40 hours a week to put together misleading documents, half - baked statistics and spin - doctored «white papers» justifying an endless flow of tax dollars to their members and the well - heeled execs who run them.
The well - to - do backgrounds of both Corbyn and his chief spin doctor, Seamus Milne, adding weight to the suggestion.
He also said that Thornberry's new special adviser, the notorious spin doctor Damian McBride, would be «brutal» and that this was a good thing.
Lead singer of the Grammy - nominated Spin Doctors, best known for their album Pocketful of Kryptonite
It's good to be reminded once and a while that yes, it can be better in reality and not just as some spin doctors trite song.
Ever since Alastair Campbell and Damian McBride left Westminster, British politics has been sadly lacking a good old notorious sweary spin doctor.
«Gordon Brown has «good days and bad days» but is coming to terms with losing power, ex-Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell said yesterday.
Norman Tebbit evolved quickly from backbench hooligan to heavyweight, Peter Mandelson turned out to be an effective minister as well as spin doctor.
Aspiring spin doctors would do well to take notes on the use of vague blether and insinuation to smear opponents.
This can include a doctor, a naturopath, your best friend, a healer, a spouse, or a friend from your spin class who is like - minded and «gets» you.
But theres good news, whatever your level of obsessive compulsive behavior: Over the last decade or so, a flurry of research (some with high - tech imaging tools that let doctors peer into the brains of people with OCD) has yielded a better understanding of why some peoples disturbing thoughts and odd habits spin out of control.
Orson Welles got the most mileage from it (including a radio spin - off that recast the swinish Harry Lime as a good - natured rogue), a renown I find difficult to fathom, given the superb ensemble work by Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli, Bernard Lee, Wilfred Hyde - White, and a doctor who pronounces his name VINK - el.
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Scathingly satirical director David Gordon Green riffs on the similarly titled 2005 documentary about ugly gringo political spin doctors gaming the election in Bolivia, a country best known for its powdered exports.
Anagrammatically - named Doctor Who spin - off Torchwood, starring everyone's favorite man - of - the - fifty - first - century (read: Doctor Who's comedic way of saying «willingly has sex with most things») Captain Jack Harkness — a hero for being the only man who ever made fun of the Daleks» favored grating, obnoxious word of choice — is coming back for another season, dubbed «Torchwood: The New World,» after last year's successful and unique Children of Earth mini-season, which saw Captain Jack leaving Earth in the finale, as well as leaving us to wonder if the show would return.
They know books are time machines that can slow the Earth's spin with a well chosen phrase or even make their doctor's office wait or subway commute whiz by.
There isn't really a way to spin that into a good thing at this point; the doctor has given his diagnosis, and there's no treatment that can save you, my poor, beleaguered console.
He is trying to use legalisms and the best partisan lawyers and spin doctors to get him off the legal hook.
The best part was when you had the clip art image of the doctor spinning right in the middle of the screen... and left it spinning for five minutes while you and opposing counsel were called up to speak to the judge.
I knew that I had something to offer to those who were to believe in me, and I knew that I would earn a good living being a professional operative in an otherwise non-professional talk -»em - up bullshit - baffles - brains spin - doctor business.
Good advice, but, be very careful that you do not try to be a stereotypical party politician, employing «spin doctor» methods of twisting and misrepresenting the actual truth of any given situation.