Word: alarmistic
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...that he has got it precisely backward. Tabloid shows like A Current Affair and America's Most Wanted may be guilty of many things, but glorifying criminals is hardly one of them. With their sensationalistic re-creations of lurid crimes, tear- jerking interviews with bereaved family members and relentlessly alarmist tone, the tabloids have, more likely, helped foment the nation's law-and-order frenzy. If anybody deserves blame for romanticizing on-the-run killers like Stone's protagonists, Mickey and Mallory (or freeway fugitives like O.J. Simpson), it isn't TV but rather Hollywood films from Bonnie and Clyde...
Patrick Chung's Crimson editorial, "Stealing Quebec; Jacques Parizeau Is Acting on a Phony Mandate" (Sep. 20, 1994), depicts an alarmist and inaccurate image of the post-election situation in Quebec and Canada...
...been more than two years since I read that letter, and I've learned a great deal in the interim. Although its wording was alarmist and a bit extreme, I've discovered through my own experience that the letter was by and large correct in its assessment of Harvard...
...last week with a show of defiance noteworthy even for them: a declaration of a state of siege, an attempted political assassination, a brutal assault on Haitians waiting in line to apply for political asylum in the U.S. and a threat to close down local press organizations that report "alarmist news." They finished the week by ordering their Justice Ministry to prepare a case charging Aristide , with treason for supporting foreign intervention to restore him to power...
That lack of exposure to nations outside the world according to Marx might, in the most alarmist view, cause him to gamble disastrously on the nature of his adversaries and his chances of winning a war. At the very least, analysts believe, he seems sure to try to consolidate power by not antagonizing the military...