ooze

In stark contrast with the album’s bombastic, top-10 title track, the early version of “Born in the USA” featured on “Nebraska ’82” oozes with the pain, heartbreak and disillusion inherent in the song’s lyrics.

The history of the Labour Party oozes out of the valleys of south Wales, perhaps like nowhere else in the UK.

Then again, my mother never attempted to feed me, as my mate puts it, bowls of “yellow ooze with pink misery circles in it.”

She was into scary stuff, confident, magnetic, oozing charisma.

That grounding and perspective, so different from those politicians oozing ambition from every pore, may be Mahan’s best commendation for higher office.