Some traders and other market experts, however, played down the impact on the market of what they irreverently called the "misleading indicators."

She irreverently calls it "impregnation," and admits she's waiting for a man with a well-stocked wallet, confiding that she has never had a boyfriend with money.

Ethel rebelled, and much preferred the "rabble," as Joe irreverently called his troop of ladies, never losing her delight in Regent Street shops, the parks at the fashionable hour, and the evening shows in full blast everywhere during the season.

Take, for example, an early nineteenth-century sheepherder named Cleofes Apodaca and the scruffy sheepdog he irreverently called Pendejo, which, translated loosely, means "idiot" or "fool"--or, translated more literally, means "pubic hair."

The visit of the American whom the newspapers irreverently call "the Mysterious Arthur," and who uses an assumed name when he registers at a hotel, was unannounced, as always.

Dresden irreverently calls it Shagnasty.

He had fallen into the pose that Capiam irreverently called the 'harper attitude'.

The gilded lady on top represents the goddess of victory, but locals irreverently call her 'Gold-Else'.

By day, Albert C. Wiltshire is a no-nonsense chief executive running the Brooklyn Navy Yard with a powerful grip - his staff irreverently calls him Darth Vader.

Venners, the 'Son of Fred' to quote the title of his autobiography, came from a council estate in Dagenham or Corned Beef City as he and his street-pals irreverently called it to taste fame, fortune and hero-worship.