Word: insultedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...serious practitioners of the art of insult, the British probably dismiss Haig's testy comment on Carrington as hardly in the same world class as the invective of Lloyd George, who said that Winston Churchill would "make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises"; of World War Fs Field Marshal Haig that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults...