Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
Any character can find an audience and work if you have passion for that character. You might have to just scrape off the dirt and the barnacles and pull it out and highlight it.
That's just so many financial barnacles to stick onto a bankrupt company. They're going to get scraped off.
Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.
I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.