Word: antagonistic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fact, with communism gone as an historical antagonist to the Church, there may be more room for social activists and the Roman hierarchy to seek solutions together. It seemed only natural this week for the Pope and Brazil's leftist president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a longtime ally of the liberation theology movement, to agree on making a central priority of shrinking of the gap between rich and poor, and challenging the "mercantilization" of human beings in an age of globalization. Benedict, on Friday, led the canonization ceremony in Sao Paulo for the first-ever Brazilian-born saint...
...college student, though, the unfairness of the SAT is not the real antagonist of the book—after all, the SATs are behind us. It was Noah’s story that was truly frightening—the tale of college loan payments, not knowing what to do next, and wishing it were as easy as filling in a few bubbles with a number two pencil...
...content. Originally, he loathed an off-screen character named Osama, a "rich, oily guy who acts all holier than thou," but when audience interest waned, he seamlessly retargeted his ire at "Saddam," whose unflattering pictures he posted for all to see, and occasionally invokes the name of a third antagonist, Kim, whom he finds "funny-looking." Many viewers acknowledge they have now conflated the multiple villains in their minds; in the words of one, "Lonelyboy43 has so many bad guys on that show, it's hard to keep track...
...Polk, he was almost too childish to be taken seriously as a power to rebel against, with a boozy swagger and jovialness that implies a sense of invulnerability and which is gradually chipped away over the course of the play.Instead of Richard, the character who defined the action was antagonist Bolingbroke. Played by Daniel R. Pecci ’09, who gave the character a pugnacious and intimidating air, Bolingbroke was seemingly ready to get into a fight at any moment. Banished and disinherited within the first couple scenes of the play, he assembles an alliance of the many lords...
...will make it impossible for Nicholson ever to forgive. But her decision to resign, like her interview last week, was first and foremost a rare show of honesty. Forgiveness, she reminds us, is not something you can turn on like a tap. At its purest, setting both victim and antagonist free, it is truly a miraculous gift...