| 单词 | lunatic fringe |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslunatic fringe lunatic fringe n. a minority group of adherents to a political or other movement or set of beliefs; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > party or faction > [noun] > a factionary or partisan > body of > minority lunatic fringe1913 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > minority group lunatic fringe1913 Wee Frees1953 1913 T. Roosevelt Hist. as Lit. 305 There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement. 1936 Economist 4 Jan. 3/1 Dr. Townsend has now left all his rivals behind in competition for the votes of the lunatic fringe. 1945 ‘G. Orwell’ in Polemic i. 41 The lunatic fringe has even contrived to be simultaneously pro-Russian and pro-Nazi. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) iii. 59 Most of the paintings are imitations of other paintings, either conscious or unconscious, ranging from primitives and false primitives to the latest lunatic fringe. 1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 21 May 15/4 Five [letters]..refer to his ‘plug-ugly tactics’, the ‘lunatic fringe’ brand of anti-communism. 1958 Times 9 Sept. 9/3 The lunatic fringe of society, to which only too many irresponsible hoaxers here and in America belong, finds the telephone its best friend. 1968 Guardian 12 Dec. 9/1 Lunatic-fringe Utopians call for something entirely new. 1969 Observer 23 Nov. 25/3 Views like these, as anyone who has listened to a few conversations on the verandahs of suburban Kingston will recognise, aren't lunatic fringe. 1970 Observer 11 Oct. 32/3 Both sides..have what you might call lunatic fringes; on the middle-aged right there are those who would lynch anyone with long hair, on the young left..there are those who refuse to state their case rationally. 1973 D. Ramsay Deadly Discretion 175 Antique shops were magnets for the lunatic fringe. < as lemmas |
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