nicey-nicey

But maybe the Democrats played it all too gently and nicey-nicey.

One victim described how he went from being "nicey-nicey to monster."

But the "nicey-nicey honeymoon period," as she described it, would last barely a year.

Everybody knows Chelsea produce their best football when in turmoil, and it is all too nicey-nicey at the moment.

He may be nicey-nicey now, but once inside those ropes he'll want to rip my face off."

Up to now, there have been nicey-nicey modifiers used to describe David Duke.

So let's don't be putting it all on no thirty-five, forty, fifty years ago like everything is so nicey-nicey now.

Educational campaigns, indeed all attempts at prevention, have been too stupid, useless, lily-livered, and nicey-nicey to accomplish much of anything.

In the age of snark, a "car crash" interview generates many more column inches and tweets per minute than a standard, nicey-nicey one.

Listen, I hear there are calls for the PM to play nicey-nicey, if he's to have even a snowball's, against Dave?

'Nicey-Nicey Magazines' Not everyone thinks that the quality of the existing food magazines is as good as it could be.

"I don't find any of them very interesting; they are all nicey-nicey magazines and they never say what's wrong," said the food critic Mimi Sheraton.

These days they come through academies all nicey-nicey, you're really looking for a dog, somebody who is going to sit there in defensive midfield and do a job.

H.I.V. is scary, and all attempts to curtail it via lily-livered nicey-nicey ‘prevention’ tactics have failed.”

Broad gave a concurring account of his cricketing education: "I went over as a young kid, public-school cricket, all nicey-nicey....

He and others also wondered whether Cnet will be too nicey-nicey to continue Mr. Leff's practice of deleting posts not squarely addressing food.

Their contribution will be keenly awaited – three years ago, Lord (Maurice) Saatchi warned that Mr Cameron's "nicey-nicey" approach was not working.

I mean they come in here to make a pinch or something that we can do just as good and they act so goddam nicey-nicey like they don't want the credit.

It's not that Mr. Mitchell is mother-hennish or nicey-nicey; he's a bit remote behind his lopsided smile, and too kinetic to get stuck for long in personality mires.

It earned a bit of a makeover over the last season, when it tightened up the name and introduced some competitors that were in it to win it, not just play nicey-nicey.

Seven Kings of the Empire had borne the name, and most of them had been good Kings--if not always "good" men in the nicey-nicey sense of the word.

Nicey-Nicey If you grew up in the 1950s, as I did, it's nearly impossible to watch the rise of the Internet without thinking back to the rise of television, way back when.

I've never known anybody in the business who gets it, from a man, only from Rosy Palm and her five sisters, sometimes, and if none of us do, how could some straight nicey-nicey get it?

Gingrich's departure from his freshly cultivated nicey-nicey image is largely unexpected and brings snickers from consistency mavens: "Was that the new old Gingrich or the old new new Gingrich?"

Further unlike our modern nicey-nicey view of a God the old testament God is just as well as merciful, and there is never a claim to niceness (he puts his own son to death, for goodness sake).