Word: galling
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...Blue Helmets will know which way to turn to get to the concentration camps in which they will be holding normal Americans, whose buttocks will be implanted with mind-controlling computer chips, turning us all into zombie-slaves of the new world order. For what reason--sheer, thrilling gall?--remains to be seen...
Many unfortunately influential people, such as the ultra-right-wing demagogues who have the gall to accuse the federal government of plotting the tragedy in Oklahoma City, would call such a plan paternalistic or plain propaganda. Daily political news coverage can't consitute propaganda if the government only sets the floor for the time period of coverage...
...vain," Paul wrote to the Corinthians. But it was St. Augustine who observed that "on no point does the Christian faith encounter more opposition than on the resurrection of the body." And indeed no assertion of modern biblical scholarship can match, in its capacity to horrify and gall, the statement that Christ never actually rose from the dead...
...cannot believe the gall of," Hanselman said. "He is someone I worked closely with, had daily contact with over the last semester, someone I considered to be a friend. I can't believe that he could stab me in the back over an office that, quite simply, won't mean that much after we leave Harvard this spring...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point-- he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching...