Voorbeelden van fogey

• But this again is the reaction of an old fogey, for whom an opera like this can only be a national disgrace.

• I am sorry that that feeling is not shared by my colleagues here—that phalanx of distinguished fogeys, young and old.

• I am rather an "old fogey" in these matters.

• We are turning out some of the biggest bunch of old fogeys in the western world.

• I cannot help thinking that this attitude towards the cinema is partly because a great many old fogeys do not like it.

• He must know that the combined forces of bureaucratic inertia, backwoodsmen, backwoodswomen, and old and young fogeys could delay the changes for years and years.

• After all, it is probable that we are regarded simply as just a lot of old fogeys who do not like these things very much.

• It is very silly to ask every generation to moderate itself and palliate with old institutions and old fogeys when what is needed is modernisation.

• I would rather he a young fogey than an old fogey.

• Those two judges involved are not old fogeys.

• It is the battle of the young fogeys.

• Is it to be left to an old fogey sitting somewhere, who may rouse himself from sleep and form the idea that a certain banner would incite the public?

• The magazine coined the phrase young fogey in 1984.

• He previously has been identified as a young fogey.

• Wilson has a reputation, gained early in his career, of being a young fogey.