Word: animus
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This faith has not protected him against attacks by his Baptist brethren. In fact, his minister friends have been startled by the degree of pious animus directed at him from some conservative pulpits since his election. The Rev. D. James Kennedy, pastor of the 8,000-member Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whose religious broadcast is carried on 360 television stations nationwide, earlier this year cited a tabloid account of Clinton's alleged affair with former Arkansas cabaret singer Gennifer Flowers as an indication of the President's moral delinquency. "If his wife cannot rely upon...
...over the Post ran aground, he struck a deal with Hirschfeld to share ownership. After this liaison went asunder, the bankruptcy court on March 12 turned over the paper to Hirschfeld, who promptly axed Hamill. Within hours, the mutiny was under way. The cause of the Post staff's animus toward its new chief was twofold. One, Hirschfeld fired 72 employees. Two, he once spat on a reporter from the Miami Herald, a first-rate newspaper, so there's no telling what he might do at a paper like the Post...
...Sessions to pay back taxes for using his chauffeured limousine for commuting to the office and to refund nearly $10,000 for a wooden fence installed by the agency around his house. At a 90-minute Saturday press conference, Sessions defended his record and blamed the report on "an animus, an anger, an animosity by Mr. Barr for Mr. Sessions...
...Andalus," which runs through Sept. 27, is the first large-scale attempt to supply American art lovers with a sense of this vanished and brilliant culture. Given the ignorant animus against the Arab world in America, it is a valuable show, and its massive catalog is the best introduction to Spanish Islamic civilization ever set before a general audience by a museum. If the show itself, with its 120-some items, seems a little thin to the casual eye, this is due to the extreme paucity of works of art that have come down to us from the Hispano-Islamic...
...indigenous peoples still clinging today to their pockets of underdevelopment -- regarded the earth and all its creatures as alive. Nature was a whistling wind tunnel of spirits. With the rise of a scientific, clockwork cosmos and of missionary Christianity, with its message of man's dominion and relentless animus against paganism, nature was metaphorically transformed. It became dead meat...