Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet DRIVEL

Definition av DRIVEL

1. dravel, struntprat
2. drägel, saliv
3. (ålderdomligt) dåre, idiot
4. (ålderdomligt) tjänare

Exempel på hur man kan använda DRIVEL i en mening

• For example, he is offered the opportunity to edit a deceased scholar's unpublished manuscripts; however, when he eventually has a look at them, he feels uncomfortable, realizing that the man's writings are worthless drivel.
• Time described it as a "very deliberate and closely controlled film graced with a slow, severe beauty that makes its quiet edge of panic all the more chilling", whereas Jay Robert Nash in The Motion Picture Guide declares it a "useless piece of drivel about an obnoxious group of teens".
• In his 1974 novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Meyer's Watson claims that this entry, as well as three others from the Case-Book ("The Mazarin Stone", "The Three Gables" and "The Lion's Mane"), are forged "drivel".
• Stephen Morris wrote the lyrics to "Cries and Whispers" and "Mesh," earning Morris the scorn of critic Julie Burchill ("Sixth form drivel").
• Howard Thompson in his review for the New York Times wrote: "The nudity is no match for the bareness of the dialogue's drivel and the dogged tone of waste and ennui that pervade the entire film".
• In George Orwell's Burmese Days, the main protagonist, James Flory, associates the magazine with mediocre crassness as he thinks about the other British at the European Club: "Dull boozing witless porkers! Was it possible that they could go on week after week, year after year, repeating word for word the same evil-minded drivel, like a parody of a fifth-rate story in Blackwood's? Would none of them ever think of anything new to say? Oh, what a place, what people! What a civilization is this of ours—this godless civilization founded on whisky, Blackwood's and the Bonzo pictures!".
• Shelby County commissioner Tami Sawyer said the school's anti-LGBT rhetoric ("hateful drivel") should be viewed in light of the school's history of racial segregation.
• Her column was criticized by the scientist running trials on AZT, as "sensationalistic drivel of half-truths and noncritical journalism that sells tabloids" and could lead to people avoiding life-saving treatment with AZT.
• While some may receive encouragement from the content, many a learned listener will hear a typical confirmational drivel that soaks most of Christian radio.
• Reports in newspapers typically referred to the hijackers as "radio hooligans broadcasting drivel, rudeness, vulgarity, uncensored expressions, and trashy music".
• This is supposed to be the cause of his epithet Clafrog, though this term literally means "scabby" or "leprous"; there has evidently been some confusion with the similar-sounding Glyfoer or Glafoer, meaning "drivel".
• In another negative review, Larry Printz of The Morning Call opined that the use of multiple producers and musical styles "smacks of desperation", describing the album as "mediocre drivel".
• " Tom Milne of The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "Fulsomely cradled in slow motion and caressing dissolves, sprinkled with cultural references to Dante and idealistic philosophies, indulging much lachrymose drivel about first love and its irreparable loss, this Son of Love Story similarly tries to prove that the spirit of romance is not dead and proceeds to administer a cruel coup de grâce.
• Still, after a summer of half-baked patriotism and simpering romantic drivel, a film with no pretensions comes as a relief.
• A Smash Hits journalist put the blame entirely on Anderson for making the album "entirely unlistenable"; he jokingly described his lyrics as "the kind of 'cosmic' drivel that gets hippies a bad name", and felt that the "tuneless" melodies were written by just coming up with notes and pitches at random.
• Ian Gittins of Melody Maker was critical in his review, describing the album as "some kind of dismal nadir", "sheer drivel" and "risible guff" which "plumbs some spectacularly sad depths".
• We still bristle at the press release drivel and regurgitated guff but city guides have died a death.
• Michael Mann of the University of Pennsylvania criticized Peterson for "poisoning the minds of so many influenceable people with his pseudo-intellectual and pseudoscientific drivel, drivel that is being weaponized in the right-wing assault on science and reason" and described him as "a central cog in the denial machine".
• com gave Exit 33 a one out of five, calling it "cliché-ridden torture porn drivel" that suffered from repetitiveness, poor acting and flat characters.
• The socialist newspaper The Tocsin was scathing of Carrington's design, describing it as "blatant jingoism": "It is a clumsy tawdry picture, over-balanced with heavy decorative stage scenic effect, and inspired by Kipling's drivel on the Old Queen and the Young Queen".

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