Citations:armchair

English citations of armchair

1950, The Listener, volume 43, page 137:
The most armchair of strategists can see that a serious and direct military threat to Commonwealth security as a whole in the Far East is improbable just now. Of the three great strategic bases the Commonwealth itself controls two, and the third ...
1984, Drama (journal of the British Theatre Association), page 50:
But Sir Michael never appears to have been much more than a very armchair kind of Socialist, even at the time of the People's Convention. The book is not fashionably revealing about himself.
(Can we date this quote?), Doug Van Pelt, Rock Stars on God, Volume 2, Lulu.com (→ISBN):
And it professes to be evil, which I think is a very armchair statement anyway. People are paying big bucks just to wear symbolism, because it's rebellion.
2016, John Greenacre, Ever Glorious: The Front Line Letters of the Crookenden Brothers, 1936-46, Helion & Company (→ISBN), page 162:
As far as I can see it is the Germans who are “tying up important forces” rather than we. We must get round somewhere. However no critic could be more armchair than I am or am likely to be for the next year, possibly for the rest of the war.
2016, Laust Schouenborg, International Institutions in World History, Taylor & Francis (→ISBN), page 51:
[…] : the sample of research 'should make it clear why only the most armchair of archaeologists dispute the existence of social evolution' (Marcus 2008: 254).

2006, Maria Carla Galavotti, Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 235:
... theories seem so distant from empirical corroboration as to bring doubts regarding their place in science; and lastly that there is a connection between the two issues, viz. they both engage more armchair than lab or field work, ...
2016, Martin Money, Sunshine and Ice Volume 10: Glittering Stars, New Generation Publishing (→ISBN):
Okay, fair enough, I'm more armchair than activist. I don't do placards or meetings. But I've given cash, I spread the word in print and, unlike many, I do bother to vote. It irritates me when people bang on about useless and corrupt politicians but ...