Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule. Julie Burchill
More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun. Eric Alterman
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature. Lafcadio Hearn
If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that. Dwayne Johnson
There is still nothing on the proverbial scoreboard. John Motson
