Word: inflicting
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Intolerance need not be that blatant to inflict wounds. If Tony Jeffreys, 34, and Alice Sakuda Flores, 28, have a child, that hypothetical Japanese- Filipino-German-Irish-Buddhist-Catholic-American will become flesh and blood. In their one year of marriage, Tony says, "I've heard friends say stupid stuff about Asians right in front of Alice. It is real hypocritical because a lot of them have Mexican or black girlfriends or wives." Sometimes the more subtle the rejection, the sharper the sting. Says Candy Mills, 29, the daughter of black and Native American parents, who is married to Gabe...
...Scott Mayers, a psychotherapist in Venice, California, is hardly terrified. But he is cautious. "What I do to ensure that I don't inflict my agenda or opinion," he says, "is go with the patients' presentation and stay with it, using their own words, their own scenarios. I'm so cautious because we are all very suggestive...
According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the daily newspaper on campus, the Human Rights League letter argues that the policy "does not inhibit the free exchange of scholarly ideas throughout the university, since it merely restricts certain behavior intended only to inflict direct injury...
...past years, November I was an unofficial holiday. It was the day when the Leprechaun returned to the Parquet. I would be over the mental anguish that only the Boston Red Sox could inflict...
...things which is so liberating (and, at the same time, so profoundly frightening) about the Asian-American experience. The fact that we as Asian men are treated badly by mainstream society does not give us the right to prioritize our injurie over the injuries we inflict upon others. We cannot afford that kind of thinking in a world where we all hope to live together as equals...