Word: insultable
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...plot of Blithe Spirit is these people chain-drinking and alternating from backhanded compliment to forehanded insult. One can only imagine the shock Coward must have experienced when he opened a playwriting book and learned that plays require forward plot movement and a climax. The plot he has devised to meet these needs has little to recommend it, neatly alternating as it does from either total predictibility to utter unbelievable with very little in between...
...negative light. Furthermore, unlike other minorities, gay people are obviously not born into gay families which could provide a support group to shelter them from the hostility of outsiders Since most gay people are undetectable, this hostility often comes from our own families and trusted friends who unknowingly insult us as they depreciate gay people...
...attempt to destabilize the Sandinista regime--frighteningly reminiscent of the Bay of Pigsfiasco--is just the latest in a series of U.S. foreign policy blunders in Central America that are both morally repugnant and practically ineffective. But it adds insult to injury in the form of hypocrisy. We must lower the standards we set for other nations or live up to them ourselves...
...allowing themselves only ten minutes to muster each case. Success at on-topic demands fetishistic research, note cards by the hundred gross and the rhetorical felicity of an armored truck. Off-topic debate, by contrast, is meant to be a cross between Groucho Marx and Daniel Webster. It rewards insult, parry and bluster. The judges' instructions for the Princeton tournament, for instance, emphasize that "witty (and only witty) heckling is encouraged...
...stronger one's real position, the less one needs to rub in the other side's discomfiture. It is rarely wise to inflame a set-back with an insult. An important aspect of the art of diplomacy consists of doing what is necessary without producing extraneous motives for retaliation, leaving open the option of later cooperation...