Citations:Voldemort

English citations of Voldemort

Noun: "an evil, harmful, or widely feared person or thing"

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• 2004, Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, Spring 2004, page 58:

  Bush may believe his Ashcroft-lite religiosity, but the evil lies in how he being used by the Voldemorts of corporatism, wealth, Big Media, and Big Oil.

• 2006, John Feinstein, Last Dance: Behind the Scenes at the Final Four, Little, Brown and Company (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  All was forgiven. Not so in Kansas: he became the Voldemort of the Plains.

• 2006, Mary Lou George, Spirit, Bookstrand (2008), →ISBN, page 116:

  […] I swear to stay absolutely sober until the Voldemort in the library is defeated.”

• 2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

  In March 1940, in the “midnight of the century” that marked the depth of the Hitler-Stalin pact (or in other words, at a time when civilization was menaced by an alliance between two Voldemorts or “You-Know-Whos”), George Orwell took the time to examine the state of affairs in fantasy fiction for young people.

• 2009, Matthew Latimer, Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor, Three Rivers Press (2009), →ISBN, page 225:

  He'd turned out to be less a Voldemort than a Boris Badenov chasing Rocky and Bullwinkle.

• 2009, Wendy Leigh, Patrick Swayze: One Last Dance, Simon Spotlight Entertainment (2009), →ISBN, page 72:

  And in the wake of his father's tragic death, drink became one of the leitmotifs of his existence, the Voldemort of his soul against which he would be compelled to battle on almost a daily basis.

• 2011, Kevin O'Leary, Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life, Doubleday (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  I'm often called the Mean One, the one to be feared, even the Voldemort of Capitalism.

• 2011, Scott M. Tyson, The Unobservable Universe: A Paradox-Free Framework for Understanding the Universe, Galaxia Way (2011), →ISBN, page 139:

  The prospect that physics is inconsistent throughout the time and space of our universe is the “Voldemort” of science.

• 2012, G. M. Malliet, A Fatal Winter, Constable & Robinson (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  […] Oscar has been called the Voldemort of Fleet Street by both friends and enemies. He was apparently ruthless in all his business dealings.'

• 2012, B. J. Mendelson, Social Media Is Bullshit, St. Martin's Press (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  If you asked me to identify a Voldemort in the myth of “social media,” it would be these people, and not guys like Gary Vaynerchuk.

• 2013, Michael Cornfield, "Twelve for 2012: Consequential Choices by the Obama and Romney Presidential Campaigns", in Campaigning for President 2012: Strategy and Tactics (ed. Dennis W. Johnson), Routledge (2013), →ISBN, page 229:

  He dared not mention the name of George W. Bush, the Voldemort of American politics.

• 2013, Robert H. Lustig, Heather Millar, & Cindy Gershen, The Fat Chance Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes Ready in Under 30 Minutes to Help You Lose the Sugar and the Weight, Hudson Street Press (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Fructose is the Voldemort of the metabolic syndrome pandemic: stealthy, ever-present, and bad for the common good.

• 2014, Richard M. Perloff, The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics in a Digital Age, Routledge (2014), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  They are the Darth Vader, the Voldemort of contemporary politics, “the electronic equivalent of the plague” (West, p. 70; see Figure 15.2). Few aspects of modern politics generate as much criticism as negative political commercials.

Verb: "to subject to a prohibition on naming directly"

• 2018, Elle Kennedy, The Chase, Elle Kennedy Inc., →ISBN:

  “We don't speak Daphne's name in this house,” Kaya explains to me. Jee-zus. One measly stomach pumping and poor Daphne gets Voldemorted? The Kappa Beta Nu chapter of Briar University is evidently a lot stricter than the Brown chapter.

• 2018 September 10, Gretchen McCulloch, “Welcome to Voldemorting, the Ultimate SEO Dis”, in Wired‎^[2]:

  Voldemorting is the anti-SEO, the anti-keyword, and the anti-hashtag. It transforms your subject from a single mass into an ungraspable swarm.

• 2021, Roni Loren, Yes & I Love You‎^[3], Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:

  You two Voldemorted the sexual tension between you. You took the power out of it. Like, hey, we both have pants feelings for each other. Let's stop pretending we don't and deal with it so we can stop being so freaked out about it.

• 2021, Nicholas Carah, Media and Society: Power, Platforms, and Participation‎^[4], SAGE, →ISBN:

  Voldemorting is the tactic of not mentioning the name, keyword, hashtag or handle you are talking about because you don't want them to know you are talking about them.

Verb: "to whoosh" (like Voldemort in the movies, etc)

• 2015, Alex Wheatle, Liccle Bit, Atom (→ISBN):

  McKay was still shaking his head but Jonah was nodding. 'Step with me,' Manjaro insisted. I stood up. Manjaro placed a hand on my shoulder and smiled. Something cold Voldemorted through every artery in my body. We started walking.