| As a Warholian spoof of branding, publicity and media underwritten by Marxist and semiotic theory, it is all wearingly clever and depressingly obvious. |
| He dropped into a half-sleep in which thought continued but not wearingly. |
| Potential candidates declare their modernising credentials by turning up tieless in television studios where they spout wearingly familiar slogans about change and the need to reconnect with the voters. |
| It is wearingly self-indulgent in the way its author recounts every strategy, replays every achievement, extols every ally. |
