Word: hurtfulness
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...field. Those sending the emails expressed doubt that the people on the Quad were Harvard students, and expressed annoyance that their precious grass was being destroyed. As participants of the Challenge heard about these emails and began to read them, many of them felt emotions in the realm of hurt, frustration, and anger...
Bouquet was not the only person angry, frustrated, and hurt by the events that unfolded this past weekend. Many people have identified race to be a factor in the way in which things were handled this past Saturday. I am inclined to agree with these allegations...
It’s justifiable for people to feel angry when people look at them as if they don’t belong. It’s reasonable for people to be hurt when they feel as if there is a perception that they are dangerous. It’s completely understandable for people to get peeved when they constantly have to prove that issues of race still exist, while countless people try to deny that they don’t and that they are not factors in how people of color are treated...
...salvos hurt even more. Most notably, in an open letter to Tennis magazine last year, Chris Evert knocked Serena for dabbling in acting and fashion. "These distractions are tarnishing your legacy," Evert wrote. Serena scoffs, "Obviously she's extremely happy in her life and everything that she's going through, so she's in a position to criticize someone else." The sarcasm was as heavy as the Wimbledon...
...called "Today is the first day of the rest of your campaign." In short, he has flipped. As recently as 2002 his support for abortion rights was "unequivocal." Now he holds the opposite view with equal firmness. The firmness is good, but just a dab of equivocation wouldn't hurt. To go from one unequivocal extreme to the other reflects a mind that is more concerned about being in the right place than about why this is the right place...