Darth Vaderian

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1. Resembling or characteristic of the fictional character Darth Vader.

   (What the heck is this “gun lobby” anyway? Am I it or is it some sort of Darth Vaderian conspiracy that manipulates the minds of innocent legislators?)

   1989 February 13, Kevin Harris, “Odd correlation”, in The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash., page B2, column 5

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   Though crowded and dwarfed by Darth Vaderian upstarts such as the Equitable Life Building across from it, the 17-story Candler Building on Peachtree remains alone in its 1904 stylishness.

   1990 March 11, Bud Collins, “The changing winds of Atlanta”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 237, number 70, page A3, column 3

   Now that the “wall” has become a souvenir to be mounted on a plaque or picture frame and the lien between good guys and the “Evil Empire” with all its Darth Vaderian images is becoming more of a blur, there is evidence that those out there who live to protest something, anything, are getting desperate.

   1990 August 12, Tom Barberi, “Barberi!”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 240, number 120, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 2B, column 2

   His [Oliver Stone’s] acceptance speech on September 17 concluded with the following lines: […] How can we possibly win against the overwhelming force of this government of the future, this Darth Vaderian empire?

   1995, James Riordan, Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, pages 246–247

   They spring up only after you have clicked the right-hand button on your mouse, a secret that is revealed by a message to that effect several seconds after you have been left staring at this Darth Vaderian screen.

   1998 September 3, John J. Fried, “Forgetting to back up data? FileSitter automatically does it for you”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 170th year, number 95, page F2, column 4

   And therein lies a very troubling reality about the Orwellian — perhaps even Darth Vaderian — measures increasingly employed by marketers of today’s mega-media products.

   1999 May 1, Katherine Monk, “Empire of hype”, in The Vancouver Sun, page E1, column 3

   Synonyms: Darth Vader-esque, Vaderesque