Word: demeans
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...Witt has projected the possibility of offense in the African American community by his reading that those images demean black men, but there has been no investigation of the response of that community," she said...
...MISAPPLICATION OF THE WORD hero--your table of contents says "an All-American hero is whole again"--speaks volumes about America's mixed-up priorities. When we define as heroes grown men who play little boys' games, we demean the Audie Murphys, Sergeant Yorks, Florence Nightingales and countless anonymous police officers, fire fighters and others who have risked and sometimes forfeited their lives in the service of humanity. There are many great talented sports figures, including Simpson. Role models they may be. Heroes they are not. JOHN LUTHER, Buffalo, New York...
...reimpose state control of the media. In Tajikistan, beset by civil war, the government suppressed all independent media. In Armenia police habitually raid editorial offices. In Romania journalists are often under surveillance. In Slovakia a proposed law would provide one- to five-year jail sentences for journalists who "demean" the country from abroad. In Poland, the Czech republic and Hungary the situation is better, but everywhere governments exert pressure by controlling paper supplies, distribution facilities and especially broadcast licenses...
...personal opinion is that it would be unfortunate if people cooperate with a magazine that tends to demean women," Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said...
...capability of using language, creating mathematical concepts, writing music and, above all, perceiving our own immortality. Not to appreciate this fact is to succumb to populist, if not sophomoric, anthropomorphism in which an attempt to raise the status of the lower animals to that of humans manages only to demean the latter and in some ways the former...