“If you send him here, to this la-di-da school, he’ll forget who he is and be afraid of his own people.”

"At the risk of sounding la-di-da, this is, truly, my Proustian madeleine."

And then, la-di-da, they’ll go back to pretending this is a normal presidency rather than a runaway train.

There is a preposterous la-di-da in trying to use philosophy to make sense of Mr. Trumpov—even dragging in, as I intend to do, the greatest of the pre-Socratic Greeks.

Mrs. Stahlbaum, laden with la-di-da airs and graces, needs a drink before her party guests arrive, and yet she truly loves her children.