Word: boorishness
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...alone to the Senate hearings. That'll get the people on your side. The senators will be boorish, prodding, inconsiderate. Good. React. Show pain. This is Anita Hill II. The public will blow up at the Senate and embrace you, ending the "Hillary issue" once...
Sinatra, a five-hour CBS mini-series about the pop-music legend, sounded unpromising from the get-go. The Chairman of the Board's life story has been too public and too troubling -- fights with reporters, alleged Mafia ties, stories of boorish behavior -- to be much good as myth, and network TV doesn't have the stomach for a real expose. Especially not in a movie produced by Sinatra's own daughter Tina...
...Hebrew Bible portrays Philistines as boorish warriors, the opposite of Israeli heroes like David and Saul. And the word "philistine" has entered into common usage to describe a person who lacks an appreciation for intellectual and aesthetic matters...
...Babe was. To maintain sympathy for a figure who never "develops" in the customary dramatic sense (let alone morally or intellectually), he nicely balances force-of-nature rambunctiousness and a shadowed befuddlement about the mysterious requirements of civilized behavior. His Ruth is vigorous and vulgar but somehow not boorish, poignantly sweet-spirited at times but never self-sentimentalizing...
...themselves and were indifferent to the ^ suffering and destruction they caused to achieve their ends. Hard as it is to realize it, Bullock writes, "the key to understanding both Stalin and Hitler is . . . that they were entirely serious about their historic roles." In private they were boring and boorish. The mistake their political enemies and would-be partners repeatedly made was to underestimate the men and the extremes to which they would...