Word: insultate
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When the talk gets too difficult, they protect themselves by glazing over. No one picks it up when Simone says, "My mom keeps telling me to go ahead and live with my father. She couldn't insult me more." When a new girl explains that she learned of "her" divorce when her father put a debt-disclaiming ad in the paper, they all chorus: "Oh." "Ugh." "Yuck." "But so typical." Julie says, "My mother had this man living in the house. I felt as if I was in the way. She would agree with him about things she would...
...lover, for example, is "a man of sixty-two, with settled, sophisticated tastes and few doubts." Grace Gregory, the self-appointed private eye, is a no-nonsense Henrietta Stackpole type: "I'm a definite friend to Anthea and injury or no injury, I'm going to add insult to it." Back home in Birmingham, Wife Anthea, a study in gray, feeds her goldfish and solaces herself with boring novels. "Everyone abroad, except me," she complains. "No wonder people ask me, where is my sense of humor...
...spoke up on treasury matters. Some Tory backbenchers remember vividly the verbal exchange that marked Thatcher as a fighting lady to be reckoned with. Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who is renowned for his brutal wit, had just dubbed her "La Pasionaria of Privilege." Thatcher ignored the pointed insult. "Some Chancellors are micro-economic," she answered coldly. "Some Chancellors are fiscal. This one is plain cheap." And she went on to document unerringly Healey's failure to deal with the facts...
...seventh. After tossing out Rod Hibner for the second out. Brown (the pitcher) seemed ready to end the game despite the Bruin runners at the corners. But an intentional walk to load the bases and Larry Carbone's triple undid the afternoon's work. John King added insult to injury by kissing a Brown pitch goodbye over the left center field fence for the last run and the final, 7-4 score...
...Third World, the cartel also moved to allow individual members to stick on whatever price-gouging surcharges and premiums they think they can get away with. That made official policy a tactic that many producing countries have been following all winter anyway. Finally, as if to add insult to financial injury, the OPEC representatives went out of their way to try to put the blame for the increase on the industrial countries, which they chide for not curbing both energy consumption and the inflation that is eroding the value of their petrodollars...