Word: insult
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...government’s claim that the work on this project was valueless is an insult to the scores of HIID employees and consultants who gave their souls to this project,” said David J. Apfel, who was then representing the University, when the University filed arguments disputing the claims last year...
...Boris Akunin takes full advantage of it. His fiendishly witty Murder on the Leviathan (Random House; 223 pages) begins with 10 of them: the entire household of one Lord Littleby has been slaughtered by means of mysterious injections, and Littleby's skull has been bashed in. To add insult to injury, his precious golden statue of the Hindu god Shiva has been stolen. Akunin is the pen name of a Russian academic whose mysteries--all starring stuttering, downy-cheeked young detective Erast Fandorin--are wildly popular in his country and are just catching on here...
...semantic” distinction, as the ConnectU owners called it, was lost upon them on Feb. 8 when they learned of thefacebook.com’s launch in The Crimson—a perceived insult they claim was only aggravated when they discovered the actual status of their site...
...April was the bloodiest month of the Iraq war so far. Now the Bush Administration and U.S. military commanders are adding insult to injury. After fierce battles with insurgents in Fallujah, the military has agreed to turn over command to a new militia headed by former Iraqi army officers. What's the point of this? It seems that the American soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice at Fallujah died for nothing. And that is what George W. Bush calls progress? This war has never been about WMD threats or Saddam Hussein. It is about an Administration's obsession with power...
...have thought that was a well-aimed insult. He probably didn't know that Andre actually intended the piece to be walked on. But that's how it is with Minimalism. It has a way of confounding its critics. Four decades after its peak years, the last and most rebarbative movement of High Modernism turns out to be durable stuff. Deeply embedded in the DNA of much of the art that came after, it has likewise become the vocabulary of choice for almost all monuments since the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the semiofficial format of grief...