Times-isms quotes

All the prose that's overwrought ® : actual quotes from the 'New York Times'

I used to worry that my TiVo thought I was gay.
    --David Carr 

Saturday night's flurries were lovely but really just an amuse-bouche in meteorological terms.
    --Charles Isherwood 

Fox doesn't smell like team spirit. It is a Randian territory of lone saviors (Jack Bauer, John Connor, Gregory House) bushwhacking through impending catastrophe with the weaponry of a singular genius.
    --Ginia Bellafante 

On the one hand, they said, the new president's apparent enthusiasm for science, and the concomitant rise of "geek chic" and "smart is the new cool" memes, can only redound to the benefit of all scientists, particularly if the enthusiasm is followed by a bolus of new research funds.
    --Natalie Angier