Word: gentler
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...Phoenix is a kinder, gentler club," said Gogliormella. "But most of the wilder stuff happens at initiation...
...overly prone to compromise with their Republican enemies. There are may issues that Democrats could speak stridently about, such as corporate crime and greed, the bloated defense budget and the destruction of the environment. But today's Democrats are trying to convince the public that they are kinder, gentler Republicans. This is a suicidal agenda...
...expansive version of the law. In one of its most controversial provisions, it would eliminate a requirement that the entire habitats of endangered species, not just the individual creatures, must be protected. Young says the change will protect property owners; environmentalists say it will doom animals. Even in his gentler moments, Young's distaste for elitist environmentalists is clear: he once called them a ''waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating, intellectual bunch of idiots...
With its kinder, gentler approach, homeopathy quickly gained converts across the Continent. To this day it enjoys immense popularity in Germany, the Netherlands and France, where the nation's 23,000 pharmacies are required by law to supply homeopathic remedies. Homeopathy spread abroad as well. In Britain members of the royal family have been ardent adherents since the 1830s. Queen Elizabeth reportedly travels with a little black box containing 24 homeopathic preparations, and Prince Charles is said to use arnica to heal bruises from falling off polo ponies...
...Freud, and various thinkers since, saw "civilization" as an oppressive force that thwarts basic animal urges such as lust and aggression, transmuting them into psychopathology. But evolutionary psychology suggests that a larger threat to mental health may be the way civilization thwarts civility. There is a kinder, gentler side of human nature, and it seems increasingly to be a victim of repression...