Word: epithets
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...bribe. If you see the tapes carefully and listen to the dialogue, the "bribe" is only in the minds of those concocting a scenario of corruption. I also object to your describing me as a "friend" of the Defense Minister. As a senior woman in public life, this casual epithet is insulting and denigrating. I have been the president of an important political party and been known as a political and social activist for 20 years. Smearing people so casually and presuming persons to be guilty until proven innocent are the ugly faces of today's "new" journalism. Must TIME...
...renovation projects that will advance the University’s molecular biology labs and offices into the 21st century. But those espousing the widely-held stereotype that University President Lawrence H. Summers is an anti-humanities, pro-sciences economist will find no evidence for the latter half of this epithet in this quiet corner of the North Yard...
...Christianity is burdened with an original sin of anti-Semitism...and a refusal to recognize the Jewish origins of the Christian faith,” he said. “At a certain level, anti-Semitism is almost an empty epithet these days...
...campaign will be a little bit of both, but the real emotional traction will involve character more than ideology. Oh, Kerry will be called a Massachusetts liberal; assorted Kerry votes and sound bites will be summoned to prove that he is a spendthrift pacifist. But "liberal" is an ancient epithet whose power has waned in recent years, and Kerry's votes to limit defense spending will be forgiven if he seems solid, moderate and strong--as he has through the primary season...
...pattern has not been missed: labeling the liberals’ case against President Bush, editorial writers and commentators from across the punditocracy have stamped the epithet “populist” across the forehead of nearly every Democratic candidate. In the Washington Post last month, David S. Broder called former Vermont Governor Howard Dean’s fundraising appeals “internet-based populism.” In The New York Times the same day, Robin Toner mused about whether Americans can accept a “populist uprising” at a time of economic recovery...