We are past caring about the lukewarm and
namby-pamby equivocating of the DNC.
But for some reason, portraying Jesus as a
namby-pamby frat-boy-guru is fine."
In rugby, the wizards of Oz looked more like a bunch of
namby-pamby circus clowns as they trailed in last in the Tri-Nations series.
In This Present Darkness, Satan's minions set up shop in the psychology department of the local liberal arts college; the New Age cult is led by a professor who preys on intellectually curious students and by the minister of a
namby-pamby Protestant church who preaches moral relativism.
"It's not much of a secret that we have a general disdain for
namby-pamby beers."
OLD skool rockers Anthrax easily showed up
namby-pamby nu-metal bands like Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit for the impostors they really are.
But for early-'80s Hollywood, this melodrama about a married man leaving his wife for another man was quite bold, even if it plays
namby-pamby today.
This is no
namby-pamby performance, but one with a clear and assertive vision of pastoral life.
His adulatory verses ("Dimpley damsel, sweetly smiling") won Philips the nickname "
Namby-Pamby." He also wrote The Distressed Mother (1712), an adaptation of Jean Racine's play Andromaque.
Democrats were the
namby-pamby, goo-goo eggheads who thought hardened criminals could become good citizens with plenty of Prozac, hugs, and herb tea.
The only thing the New Museum challenges is our already thinly worn patience with their
namby-pamby response, otherwise known as "death by committee," whenever they manage to get too close to issues that count.
IT seems that even politicians are not allowed to describe illegal immigrants as a 'swarm' (David Cameron) or a 'marauding mob' (Phillip Hammond) without the hairy-fairy,
namby-pamby, liberal do-gooders objecting to these statements.
"I think they come back again later but 50s they all seem to be
namby-pamby, they don't seem interesting enough.
And there are no
namby-pamby bite-sized canapes on his menu, even his starters are huge - the crispy potato skins loaded with cheese and bacon are so big they might not fit into your hand.