Word: churlishness
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...Given that some people spend thousands of dollars on, say, psychiatric sessions for their dogs or a suite at the newest five-star hotel in Dubai, it might seem churlish to criticize this orgy of gluttony. But the event has raised eyebrows in a country where high-living billionaire Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was overthrown in a coup last September by a more austere clutch of generals. Led by interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, who spent time in a monastery after retiring from the military, Thailand's new leaders have called for the Buddhist-majority nation to avoid capitalist excess...
...that attitude seems churlish, remember that the lockdown is just the latest in a long line of setbacks they have endured this year. Just this summer alone, Karrada witnessed several car-bomb and mortar attacks, most of them blamed on Sunni insurgents and jihadi groups. Each time, the district has shaken off the debris and gotten back to business. But the damage to their business is crippling, say shopkeepers...
...following year, Custer used a churlish ad from his sheaf of YAF samples to help create a crude flyer for a Bay Buchanan speech, also partly funded by YAF. "Feminazis Beware," the ad blared. "Your Nuremburg is coming." The campus erupted as only campuses can. Protests were held; tears were shed; one kid left the board of the Ithaca College Republicans in protest...
...month. And even some who don't have trouble found themselves vulnerable with the launch of an investigation last month into two large firms that solicited billions of investments in postage stamps (see Stamps of Disapproval). Can Spain stay the course? It seems almost churlish to ask. So much wealth has been created in the last two decades that Spaniards appear largely immune to the "declinism" that plagues France, Italy and Germany. The two main political parties, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's ruling Socialists and Mariano Rajoy's conservative Popular Party (PP), spit and scream...
When one of the richest men in the world invites you to a private dinner at his gorgeous $128 million London home, who would be so churlish as to refuse, even if he is your biggest business competitor? Guy Dollé says he had no reason to suspect that the Jan. 13 invitation from Lakshmi N. Mittal would be the prelude to a hostile takeover bid that last week sent half of Europe into a frenzy. [an error occurred while processing this directive...