There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin […]

If ‘aardvark lover’ has that syntactic structure, then it determinately means “lover of aardvarks.

'Cause you do not get to win, shitbird. We do!

In the end, NBC needed Savannah Guthrie's performance to justify their decision: Was [President Donald] Trump's counter-programmed town hall just a ratings ploy, or would it pass journalistic muster?