Word: insulter
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...around the corner; you must fill in forms and wait for permission; if it is granted, your speech will be recorded and can be held against you in any defamation or other trials. You are not allowed to raise any issues of religion or race - and you must not insult anyone in authority. I asked a police officer at the station when the next speaker was likely to appear. Not for some time, he told me. Nor could he remember the last person to apply. (Read: "Singapore...
...George W.’s “Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?”, ridicule can work as a tool to damage the credulity of a leader. But when accusations of idiocy follow a politically neutral speech encouraging education, the arrows of insult fall short of their mark...
...Tatou is far prettier than Chanel was, which isn't any kind of insult, given that she's also prettier than 99.99% of human beings. And her almost black, knowing but unknowable eyes lend themselves to portraying mystery. But as lovely as she is, she's not someone to whom style comes naturally. A person with innate style can put on a sailor shirt and make you want to run out and get exactly that shirt. You put on that shirt and realize you don't have "it," that you imitate but don't emulate. Tatou in Chanel's beloved...
...Adding insult to injury, Chrysler finished a distant sixth place in overall sales for the month, behind even the younger South Korean brands, Hyundai and Kia, which don't report their sales figure jointly, even though they are owned by the same company. When combined, the two Korean brands sold more than 100,000 vehicles in August, finishing ahead of Chrysler in monthly sales for the first time. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...mean that as an insult. Mad Men (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.) is an exquisitely written and acted show. It re-creates its early-'60s settings with painstaking detail and creates its characters' inner lives with piercing insight. But as quotable and sexy as Mad Men is, what distinguishes it from most TV dramas, even the best, is its empty spaces. The silent pause in the front seat of a car as a man drives with his wife; the look a newlywed gives her husband, wondering what she might have gotten herself into. TV has a high metabolism today, jumping...