Word: heartlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strength, his generosity of heart toward his enemies. He defends himself by noting that thinking too well of people sometimes makes them behave better than they otherwise would. He believes in the essential goodness of the human heart, even though he has spent a lifetime suffering the wounds of heartless authorities...
...should have. But the recent reaction to the demagoguery of Minister Louis Farrakhan is part of a larger, very American fear of black hate. This is a phantom dreamed up by people who knew what slavery ought to have created long before Nat Turner struck out with his heartless blade. Black hate, though, is only a new wrinkle in the increasingly negative portrayal of blacks as a whole. Since the Reagan Administration's rollback of civil rights, African Americans have consistently been brought to the American public as predators -- street thugs and welfare hustlers, inveterate whiners, cynical, pathological. And because...
...ineptly handled. While Errico sings gloriously if unimaginatively, she is an unconvincing Cockney whose linguistic foibles wobble from syllable to syllable, quite a handicap in a show about the social importance of accents. She is plausible only in two feminist-flavored moments, denouncing Chamberlain's Henry Higgins as heartless in the first act and reviling him as a sexist...
...search through the newspapers and the Congressional Record for June turns up no public figure who declared at the time any change of heart about U.S. involvement in Somalia. Very few politicians had the courage to be heartless and oppose the original deployment by President Bush late last year. Many more had begun agitating for withdrawal by September, as American deaths started to rise. There was some mild grumbling about the killing of civilians, but no criticism I could find of what is now held to be an obvious and devastating error: the change of mission...
...right that Republicans tend to be portrayed as heartless people, who do not care at all about the poor. He is also right that that is an unfair stereotype, which is almost never accurate...