boomerish

comparative more boomerish · superlative most boomerish

1. Characteristic of a baby boomer.

   Where “1999” proposed an apathetic solution to the problem of the oncoming apocalypse—dance!—in “America” Prince sees dystopia and offers nothing but what he sees: No solutions, no boomerish optimism, he's just a camera.

   2013, Touré, I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon, page 66

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   He identifies a lot with the Buster attitude, but when it comes to management style, he tends to be very performance-oriented, very Boomerish. He fixes his eyes on the goal, and sometimes he's hurt his relationships with people in that process.

   1996, Tim Celek, Dieter Zander, Patrick Kampert, Inside the Soul of a New Generation, page 143

   A Howard Beale for the Instagram era, he’s here lashing out on behalf of boomerish power lunchers who believe in a woman’s right to a safe abortion and oppose police brutality but are too scared to admit how enraged they are by a generation of absolutist woke whiners.

   2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times