Word: doubtfulness
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...seems to be an immensely thoughtful songwriter addressing urgent issues of modern life. But at the next, he seems to be just another young sentimentalist who wants to say anything and everything at once. Maybe Oberst’s fragile voice, big watery eyes, and quotidian poetry make us doubt the legitimacy of his existential dilemmas. But when he’s so darned likeable, why question...
...unclear relationship expectations, to rape them. She also writes that “morning-after guilt and regrets can give way to overblown cries of violation or abuse.” Not only are we to believe that victims are complicit in their own attacks, but we must also doubt victims’ intentions in reporting crimes...
...doubt your superhuman performances will bring whispers of steroids and human-growth hormone. How often and thoroughly are tests run on swimmers? James Kelly, SPRINGFIELD...
...caught up in his party's travails, has not yet got Rudd's measure. The government's attempt to tar him for his association with Labor felon Brian Burke had the opposite effect. He's been embarrassed by a gas-guzzling car and a solar-free home, and no doubt the government and a more searching media will turn up more trouble: perhaps he runs the air-conditioning hard in steamy Brisbane. Rudd is not a saint, he has said, nor even a future one like Mother Teresa. Over the coming months, his unabridged story of Australia's future will...
...sufferer to seek almost constant recognition and reward. When the world and the people in it don't respond as they should, narcissists are not just enraged but flat-out mystified. Cho's multimedia postmortem package exuded narcissistic exhibitionism, and the words he spoke into the camera left no doubt as to what he believed - or wanted to believe - was his own significance. "Thanks to you," he said in one of his many indictments of his victims, "I die like Jesus Christ...