| The knee-jerk reaction is to dismiss such training as faddish and of dubious value. |
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| Needless to say, after more than a decade of internecine strife, all this faddish Conservative unity is somewhat fragile, not to say illusory. |
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| We are not a people beholden to faddish diets, hung up on tofu, soya, sushi or colon-cleansers. |
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| The strong appetite for a piece of Ireland was often shallow, faddish and dishonest. |
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| Some analysts fear it might still be overexposed to the faddish and underperforming technology sector. |
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| He once had a faddish private client who insisted on egg-white omelettes, to be cooked without butter or oil in the pan. |
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| This is because I'm flighty and align myself constantly with faddish moral causes. |
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| All of the early cites for the expression are clustered around 1888-1889, when sports writers and others began using it in a rather faddish manner. |
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| There has been more recently, perhaps because it's more faddish to have a research program on organic or sustainable farming. |
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| Eli's no-nonsense style helped ensure that team members recognized their leaps in logic, dubious assumptions, and faddish buzzwords. |
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| It was his initiative, long before it was a topical or faddish thing to do, to support the abolition of landmines. |
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| Today in Western cultures, acupuncture is often seen as recent and faddish. |
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| Society has become well kept pets whose only pleasure is derived from home entertainment systems, flashy cars and faddish clothing. |
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| Kaye says that while faddish taxidermy is still with us, it has taken a slightly different shape. |
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| She hurries down to the electronics store to buy the faddish new Nokia phone but when she gets there the salesman says that the next shipment will only arrive six months later. |
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| But interest among the young in general later fell back, in some cases because they realised that the church offered hard, ascetical discipline rather than faddish, feel-good mysticism. |
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| There's nothing faddish about this school. |
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| Often, too, social communication overlooks what is genuinely new and important, including the good news of the Gospel, and concentrates on the fashionable or faddish. |
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| The simple cup of char has been replaced by a range of faddish cafes which serve frothy cappuccinos, lattes and expressos. |
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| This term may strike you as odd, or even faddish. |
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| Worse, promoting new ideas aimlessly can create faddish cycles: each new idea has a brief shelf-life, after which it is replaced by another short-lived idea. |
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| Unfortunately, some ETF providers have a bad record of launching new ETFs in faddish corners of the market, a practice that tends to encourage investors' worst instincts. |
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| During 2000 Hasbro refocused its long-term strategy on promoting its core brands and de-emphasizing its reliance on faddish product. |
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| Concerns center on the company's ability to successfully reduce its reliance on faddish toys while enhancing the performance of the core brands. |
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| It protects against faddish enthusiasms and schemers of all kinds. |
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| But faddish Los Angeles stuck with the Tower and Monty's in Westwood plus a few top-floor hotel restaurants while just about all the others faded away. |
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| Without belittling the X Games, it's sort of faddish,'' Usher said. |
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