Word: insulter
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...dark washes a secco. "No other fresco painter applied such a glue," says Head Restorer Colalucci, "so why should Michelangelo have done so? He knew very well that the final result could not have lasted long. To suggest that he gave his fresco a glue sizing is an insult to his technical ability. A fresco artist studies colors and their relationships, and balances them correctly so that they have unity from the moment they are applied...
...process. The move followed Iran's rejection of a U.S.-backed compromise proposed by Britain, France and Germany that called for Iran to give up uranium-enrichment activities - which could potentially produce fuel for an atomic weapon - in exchange for a comprehensive European economic assistance package. "It is an insult to the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad told United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan last week, rejecting the offer. The 49-year-old former Tehran mayor, who has no previous experience in international diplomacy, said he would come up with a nuke initiative of his own, once he had completed his cabinet...
...This is boring.” “This is corny.” “This project’s wack.” “I hate this.” “This is stupid.” And the ultimate insult: “This is like school...
...these workers as cigarette-smoking, beer-drinking, misogynistic, homophobes ignorant of how to behave on the civilized confines of an Ivy League university. If I were one of these workers I would feel humiliated by the condescension of these signs, and their public display would add to the insult. Construction workers may be so unevolved that they earn their living by the sweat of their brow, but they are human beings and have feelings...
...Since the election of its new hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran has become increasingly strident over its nuclear ambitions. Ahmadinejad dismissed the European offer as an 'insult,' precisely because it required Iran to renounce the right it enjoys under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to enrich uranium for energy purposes. Tehran's action this week ended its year-long voluntary suspension of uranium conversion activities. Its top representative to the IAEA was combative yesterday, saying that on the anniversary of the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, the U.S. was in "no position whatsoever to preach to anyone about what they should...