Word: insultedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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P.D.Q. Bach's The Stoned Guest is yet a sharper spear in the chest of dramatic opera than Bugs Bunny. To compliment or condemn the acting or the singing in this "opera" is to insult Peter Schickele's frivolous intention...
...Even if it's legal, the voters won't stand for it. Running a dead candidate would be an insult to their intelligence...
...article that did not deal with racial issues in prison, were two Black men picked to represent prison. Whether they admit or not, this choice is racist because, to The Crimson, the archetypal prisoner is a Black person. Furthermore, their subsequent trivialization of our anger added insult to injury. We were accused once again of "oversensitivity" and were asked to write if off as an unintentional error...
When he wrote for Ultravox, Foxx tended toward the oblique and metaphorical. His compositions, like "Lonely Hunter" from the first album or "The Man Who Dies Every Day" from Ha! Ha! Ha!, often became obscure and laughably existential. On Metamatic, none of the images insult the intelligence, with the exception of "He's a Liquid." The words on this album are fragments pieced together from a collective past. A line like "Some time ago a figure strolled along the esplanade" from "A Blurred Girl" evokes a certain misty, mushy image in each of us, and linked together, these recollections form...
Perhaps the most impressive claims came from Francine Patterson, a psychologist at Stanford, who said she had managed to teach a hulking female gorilla named Koko more than 400 signs. According to Patterson, the gifted ape then proceeded to higher linguistic levels by using word combinations to insult her trainers (You nut), compose rhymes (bear hair, squash wash) and invent metaphors (eye hat for mask, finger bracelet for ring...