Word: insulting
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...running according to form. Despite temperatures in the 30s, many participants dutifully jogged the beach before their 8 a.m. seminar. Two (unacquainted) participants compared the panels to "interactive C-SPAN" and "watching MacNeil/Lehrer from 8 in the morning till 10 at night." And neither remark was meant as an insult...
...issue surrounding the erection of a memorial to Harvard's Confederate war dead is the committee's lack of consultation of the student body on the matter, then that is something the committee itself would have to address. However, if the controversy is created by the implied insult to blacks and Harvard's dead Union soldiers by the commemoration of Confederate alumni, then I suggest that insult is largely imaginary and based on a misunderstanding of the real purpose of a war memorial...
...that airplane expecting to spend several hours talking about the budget and how do we avoid the shutdown," Gingrich said. "Every president we had ever flown with had us up front. Every president we had every flown with had talked to us at length." To add insult to injury, the House Speaker and Majority Leader were eventually herded out through the plane's rear exit. "You just wonder where is their sense of manners, where is their sense of courtesy," Gingrich fumed. "Was it just a sign of utter incompetence or lack of consideration, or was it a deliberate strategy...
...insult," said one crew chief. "It's not even a formal letter--not all the letters were even signed...
...Adding insult to injury, Harvard lost 4-2 to a Dartmouth squad (4-10-0, 2-3-0 Ivy), which it outmatched on paper...