Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dance routines were performed by Cossacks in shiny boots and bright silk shirts--the standard, romanticized view of the Russian people. Granted that the show was corn through and through, wonderful and very enjoyable corn, Berlin should have thought of something that didn't insult the intelligence of anyone who has read even one communique from Russia...
...preposterous to deserve comment. But the sort of isolationist stupidity which is central over Chicago could not exist if it were not itself isolated from reason. . . . [Schroeder] was still making isolationist speeches just before last week's election. Such a stand . . . makes the suggestion of his name an insult to sound Republicanism. ... If the party wished to commit suicide it could hardly do a quicker or more effective job than by placing a Schroeder in command...
Your article entitled "The Women" under Press in the Oct. 26 issue is the most revolting "dark ages" type of propaganda I've had to stomach for a long time. It is an insult to every working newswoman in the country, to say nothing of those who are hatching on the half shell in journalism schools...
...with, the scenarists have deadened a story that might have been exiting. Every time the story seems to be moving under its own power, or rather, Sanders' power, the scene fades and narrator Herbert Marshall starts to analyze the situation and the characters with an obviousness that would insult the intelligence of a backward ten year...
...issue of Sept. 28, you speak of "Boston's snooty Noble and Greenough private day school." My son went to Noble's for several years as did dozens of my friends and my friends' sons; you insult anyone who attended this fine institution by referring to it as "snooty." Anybody who knows anything at all about the school knows that is exactly the contrary, and I am sure that any Noble and Greenough alumnus or friend will boil with indignation...