Word: boorishness
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...code was instituted after Rashid Nurgaliyev, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, admitted that police have a "sometimes boorish attitude" toward citizens, and that the "moral education" of his officers "is far from ideal," Russian news agency Interfax reported...
...This now seems to me a little extreme, but then I saw it as getting in touch with another culture. When abroad, we’re often tempted to hide our differences, to avoid being that boorish foreigner. Unfortunately, however, while you’re adapting to your host culture, you may unwittingly let your...
Harry, Prince of Wales • forced enlistment of in a course designed to encourage tolerance, or at least to discourage the kind of boorish expressions of intolerance regularly indulged...
...something uniquely American. Twain didn't just describe exotic sights; he thoroughly reimagined them with self-deprecation and enough comic invention to keep the reader guessing what really happened. He also demolished the writerly veneration of the Old World at the expense of the New. Yes, Americans could be boorish and loud, but Europe could be tired and sad. Be proud, he said to the home folks. Besides, the food over here is lousy...
...College David Pilbeam’s announcement on Tuesday that he was terminating the system of party grants run by the Undergraduate Council (UC). Much of the outcry regarding Pilbeam’s decision had to do not with the substance of the decision but the unilateral, sudden, and boorish manner in which it was made. Pilbeam’s refusal to communicate openly with students and UC representatives is not only alarming but also paradigmatic of a caustic and imperious attitude towards students that has recently come to grip University Hall.Though the UC and University Hall had been...