Word: galling
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...this climate, I found myself playing a role too: scapegoat. Admittedly, my Africa garb, comprised of white linens and a Panama hat, made me an obvious target, but the gall of my inquisitors! After half an hour spent lingering about an old slave fort, one African-American who’d been eyeing me crept towards me and asked, “Don’t you feel guilty...
...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...
...cigars, was sentenced to nine months' periodic detention over a purchase of shares in Qantas Airways made after receiving a tip-off about a possible merger. Rarely seen in public since his release, Rivkin had admitted to depression and in recent years suffered from health problems, including brain tumors, gall-bladder problems and bipolar disorder...
Allard is her 11th season at the helm of the Crimson, meaning I was the first in over a decade to have the ingenuity or gall to offer to spend my late afternoon over on Soldiers Field in Allston running drills with the Harvard softball team. Meaning I was on exactly the right track...
...effect, by labeling those with the gall to question American global hegemony—whether in the academic sphere, the press, or the United Nations—anti-American, the in-party found a remarkably effective way of squelching dissent...