Word: demeaningly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...these examples, it would have been better if the people and the art had been protected. But that wasn’t the case, and that is a shame. But even worse, the prominent wails over art from so many refined people demean the true victims, both Iraqi and American...
This scenario never actually occurred. It never could have, for two reasons. First: because the Harvard women’s hockey team is too classy to demean its opponents in such a way. Second: because even playing on their weaker sides, Harvard would wipe the ice with BU. They’d probably win with the butts of their sticks...
...Caricaturists, whose pen is meaner than the sword, are supposed to believe that cruelty is an inalienable right. Hirschfeld didn't hold to that creed. Or maybe his pen and his personality were too ebullient to be bilious; the Nast or nasty drawing, he seemed to think, didn't demean the subject so much as the artist. He had an inability to find the jugular in a entertainment figure. He did go for the jungular, exaggerating facial features and specializing in a kind of reverse anthropomorphism: he turned men into beasts. To Mickey Rooney, Bert Lahr and Zero Mostel...
...when unilateralist commentators back home like William Safire and Charles Krauthammer demean the European-American relationship, they jeopardize those shared accomplishments and the promise of many more—like winning the war on terrorism. In that way, their uncompromising words actually imperil our security by undermining the key global alliances that will protect America from more terrorism...
...those they serve. Peer counseling groups such as ECHO and Contact provide an important service even to those who never call them. With their posters and information sessions, these groups inspire positive dialogue about the issues of mental health that people like Blackburn, with his grade-school potshots, demean and marginalize...