Word: churlish
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...McGeorge Bundy's churlish reply deserves high marks, if he wants them, for its chilliness and scorn. However, these are not qualities that I, at least, greatly admire in a public official so fatefully close to the President of the U.S. They are signs not of intellectual incisiveness or of moral rigor but only of bureaucratic self-righteousness and too-prolonged insulation from the ever-growing anxieties that Mr. Bundy's ex-colleagues in universities everywhere feel toward the foreign policies that he has helped to shape in recent years. His mind is more rapid than accurate, more...
...latest of those churlish, wistful prefaces that he has taken to writing, John O'Hara seems to be saying that he is going to quit doing short stories until he is properly thanked for his novels...
Democratic in its savagery, the film takes equal delight in nailing down its hero. Aping his betters, he finally, ironically, proves himself inferior-faster, bolder, by necessity more resourceful, but at bottom just a greedy, churlish Jimmy who yearns with might and main to be known as James...
Poison Ivy. Venturing onto the college circuit, Mme. Nhu found little but poison Ivy along the way. At Harvard, she entered an auditorium through the back door to dodge some 500 churlish student pickets who were parading outside and carrying signs with such labored slogans as NHU DEAL is NHU DIEM GOOD. They pounded on the doors, splattered the building with eggs and rattled the windows while she spoke. Inside, things were not much better. When Mme. Nhu, sheathed in brocade and silk and trailing a mink stole, complained that "Americans in Viet Nam do not live like us ... austerely...
...ghost of Christmas past comes to the party for Christmas present in the form of another monthly payment at the bank. An added budgetary irritant is that Christmas money is nearly always spent for something not really needed. The necessities have already been bought since it would plainly be churlish not to buy cold the new weather, fur the coat new with party the dress in advent of time for the party on, say, Dec. 21. Christmas costs also trigger the seasonal crook. An article titled "Christmas Reactions" in the American Practitioner and Digest of Treatment cited "one male patient...