Word: inhumanness
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Columnists who write for this esteemed page are only human. Not to be confused with humane, which describes our demeanor, or inhuman, which describes our prose. Human here means mortal—that is, we columnists eventually grow old with time. As the years pass, our prose starts to stumble and our foresight begins to dim. Once-sharp witticisms gradually resemble the oft-repeated yarns that put small children to sleep. Indeed, after only a few short years of writing, people refer to us as seniors. The term is fitting to both our age and our attitude. Like most senior...
...Milosevic who liquidated whole towns of men and teenage boys. That work was done by unknown numbers of Serbian soldiers and paramilitaries who still walk free. No matter how much time Milosevic serves on whatever charges, he cannot even begin to make up for their bloody and inhuman cruelty...
...author of such influential works as After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation, The Death of Tragedy, The Language of Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman, and Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. He has also published many essays and reviews in prominent publications in Europe and the United States, and his fiction has been highly praised...
...biggest story in sports this year is that of hockey's Mario Lemieux. His return in December from three years of retirement was impressive. His performance since has been downright inhuman. Still, I couldn't help but feel a bit uncomfortable when they lowered his No. 66 from the rafters. His first retirement capped a brilliant career, including a storybook comeback from Hodgkin's disease. Lemieux's reappearance, though pleasant, seems to detract from the glory of his initial ride into the sunset...
...crowd went wild for "Monkey Wrench," a pop-rage ballad off the band's second album which showcases Grohl's seemingly inhuman ability to scream without tearing his vocal chords. Even on the band's slower, softer songs like the beautifully intricate "Aurora," Grohl couldn't resist pumping up the pace and the volume. Indeed, the only time Grohl stopped slashing at his guitar, he lambasted the British press for publishing rumors of the Foo Fighters' eminent breakup and for comparing them to the constantly troubled Brit-rockers Oasis. Though there was no tension immediately apparent onstage, Grohl's insistence...