Word: insultate
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...will never understand why the American media are so interested in the number of my miscarriages. A private tragedy as the loss of a child should not be used as a sensation for the excitement of the readers. Doing so is an insult to me and to all women. But, since TIME seems so interested too, once and forever I must state that I never had three miscarriages. I never lost three children. I only lost one, which is more than enough to cry for the rest of a life. And that miscarriage inspired my book Letter to a Child...
Crane looks upon those who opposed the library with disgust. He calls them a small, unrepresentative minority, who ramrodded their position through. Worse, to Crane, is that the opposition cares little for the memory of John F. Kennedy '40. He considers it a family insult, and he considers himself a close friend of that family...
Gorst flung the ultimate Trotskyite insult at the Redgraves: "They are totally Stalinist." Vanessa, for her part, struggled to cast the Red House raid as a cause celebre. The police bust, she eagerly insisted during TV interviews, was "the biggest political attack on any political party since the offices of the Daily Worker were raided...
...comparison to Goethe's Faust-who used evil to gain a higher good-is material for a bizarre satirical comedy by Mel Brooks rather than part of a serious political study. To say that Mosley's anti-Semitism was simply "intellectual and moral carelessness" is practically an insult to Mosley's intelligence. His own son, Novelist Nicholas Mosley, was closer to the mark when he said of his father, "While the right hand dealt with grandiose ideas and glory, the left hand let the rat out of the sewer...
...dressed in a three-piece suit, and his sleek bubble sunglasses turned Business School into his face. When I knocked on his window, he kept right on looking at the light, as if it were holding him back from important dealings elsewhere. This was no ride, it was an insult. The line in front of me wasn't dwindling, but I had a prime position, a stoplight, and before the red porsche was on to the interstate, I had a back seat lounge in a home-fabricated roofed-in pick...