Meaning of me-too-ism | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“I believe⟳ [Dean] Rusk has abdicated. Rusk merely follows [Robert] McNamara. It is McNamara who is calling the shots in South Vietnam. [...] The South Vietnamese program⟳ is McNamara's program⟳. I am not interested in Rusk's "me-too-isms" in regard to it.”

“On each occasion, trying to distil an essential essence from all the me-too-isms which make⟳ every major insurance broker seem alike.”

“But I would like⟳ to say⟳ to you that, while the 1970’s were very much the age of the me-too-ism, of I’ve got mine, of all of the conflicts in this country, and while the 1980’s are very much an era of great change⟳ in our society, with new technologies and new opportunities, the 1990’s will be the era of creativity.”

“[T]he solutions were almost exclusively the product of half-understood ‘me-too-isms’ based upon what they felt the competition were doing.”

“On the other hand, the growth of national consciousness, the awareness of a specific cultural and aesthetic past, a new sensitivity to the individual’s own⟳ visual experience⟳, and, in many years, an active contemporary artistic creativity have⟳ created a world that can no longer be satisfied with aesthetic or critical me-too-ism.”

“Distracting, diverting, trivialising, story telling, one-upping and ‘me-too’-isms make⟳ light⟳ of children’s problems and imply that if something is too hard, we should avoid⟳ it.”

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