headliny

Example Sentences

• "The president [Franklin D. Roosevelt] turned aside a query as to whether [Winston] Churchill seemed confident that Britain could win without American help with the observation that the question was “headliny” without having sufficient substance."
• "The welcome in N.Z. was deeply touching. I do think it wonderful to find such burning loyalty nowadays, and what a mental rest to find serious, well written newspapers. One had forgotten how vulgar ours have become, & it was quite a shock to return here to the headliny, gossipy, untruthful kind of writing."
• "On the other hand Elliott now plays down the relationship between his father and Lucy Mercer, which added a note of tasteless sensationalism in “An Untold Story.” This book [A Rendezvous with Destiny] is markedly more objective, less headliny than its predecessor."
• "Doak rung up a two-bagger, but his gardening in the alfalfa was not of the headliny variety."
• "The Opposite Sex, as Ring Lardner has nicknamed it or them, has drawn its share of competitive glory in other seasons. The advance has been steady and sure. And for the remainder of the summer, with the arrival of Mlle Lenglen and Miss Leitch, the female of the species will be about as headlinier as the male. In Suzanne Lenglen of France, and Cecil Leitch of England, those who esteem sport in any form will see the two most famous women stars that ever strode beneath the spotlight."
• "IT has been such a headliny week, what with [Nikita] Khrushchev and all, events moving swiftly, frenzied activity in a wide variety of fields, action and reaction, tests, blasts, notes and comments that nobody except the Alsop Brothers seem to be able to make head or tail of it in the modest compass of a small column."