routineer
Americannoun
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Origin of routineer
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The routineer with his taboo does not see this, so he attempts the impossible task of obliterating the impulse.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
Political inventors are to-day largely unconscious of their purpose, and, so, defenceless against the distraction of their routineer enemies.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
The difference between the shallowest routineer and the deepest thinker appears, to the latter, trifling; to the former, infinite.
From Maxims for Revolutionists by Bernard Shaw
The routineer in a panic turns to the taboo.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
At this point the whole routineer scheme of things collapses, there is a period of convulsion and Cæsarean births, and men weary of excitement sink back into a newer routine.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
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