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Of all the blunders Trump has made pursuing his Iran obsession, his failure to
intervene to help stop Syria’s civil war is surely the most puzzling (Guardian, 31.08.2019).
Ross Douthat is more worried about the implications of Biden's age for his potential
presidency than about his gaffes on the trail (NYT, 19.09.2019).
Комментируя негативные по их мнению действия и речи политиков,
журналисты нередко прибегают к использованию многочисленных синонимов слов
“ерунда”, “глупость”, “пустая болтовня”, “уловка”, “подделка”, “обман”:
This sham of a Queen’s speech could prove the end for Boris Johnson … Folderol,
hokum and flapdoodle – the usual absurdities of the Queen’s speech rigmarole were
reduced to their ultimate fatuity on Monday. As she named those 26 never-to-be-enacted
bills engraved laboriously on goatskin vellum, they might as well have been scribbled in
ballpoint pen, these electioneering geegaws and giveaways, embellished with
thumbscrews on crime and migration … Black Rod summoned the Commons to hear the
end of austerity, but that’s almost as much sham humbuggery as all the rest … For
political skulduggery, a bill forcing voters to turn up with passport or driving licence will
exclude the poor and the young… (Guardian, 14.10.2019).
By persuading the Internal Revenue Service that such drivel is educational, it is
legally considered a charity, it didn’t have to pay federal taxes (LA Times, 14.10.2019).
These no-dealers have no answers, only bluster, while EU negotiators are led by a
clear-cut rule book we helped draw up – but that’s all mumbo jumbo now (Guardian,
12.06.2018).
Not a scintilla remains of that “one nation”, “healing” and “bringing the country
together” guff he talked in the leadership campaign (Guardian, 26.09.2019).
Now Joe Biden's BROTHER is accused of sleaze: James Biden 'promised
healthcare firm the former vice-president's cancer initiative would promote their product'
(Daily Mail, 26.09.2019).
Значительное место занимают также существительные, описывающие
насилие и разрушения в экстремальной форме: massacre, rampage, carnage: