Word: insultable
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...artsy panoramic views of night skies and an overabundance of flashbacks and fast forwards, these cinematic tricks still fail to create the creepy anticipation that well-developed characters and a tight plot would. What they do manage to create is a nagging sense that the film is aiming to insult the viewer’s intelligence...
...Once that’s done, it’s time to contort his face into a vacuous expression, usually some combination of raised eyebrows, yawning mouth, and furrowed brow. And now that George W. has been transformed into Curious George, the simian storybook character, it is essential to insult his intelligence. Never mind that none of this has to do with the war in Iraq, the rape of the environment or the tax-cut for the rich. Obviously, George W. Bush disagrees with his critics because he is stupid and they?...
...rhythmic groove, she proceeds to bend the blues, rehabilitate some standards (by Simon and Garfunkel as well as by Duke Ellington) and scamper through a couple of her own intriguing compositions. Simply Natural may fall an inch short of her spectacular last CD, Dem Bones, but that's no insult. Cook can cook. --By Daniel Okrent
...believe that Mother Teresa's miracle should be exempt from scrutiny. He says he has no complaint "if she is declared a saint for all the great work she has done among poor people. But," he adds, "she is not capable of any miracle. It is indeed an insult to Mother Teresa to make her sainthood dependent on some stupid miracles." Ghosh tells Time that he will shut down his association and turn over its 2 million rupees ($40,000) to the Catholic order if the sisters will put the medallion to the test and have it cure another tumor...
...civil parties in the Bensaïd case - stresses that everything experts and investigators may say about unfolding plots is of little import if they can't punish terrorists who have already acted. "Bensaïd's behavior inflicts additional wounds on his victims, and is an insult to everyone who values life," she comments. "This man must never be allowed to hurt anyone again." Chances are that he won't. But there is no shortage of people like him, waiting for their chance to strike...