Word: insulting
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...shirt to brush off something we can't quite see - is it her chagrin, her defeat, the evidence of her lover's passion? Then, Jean plays the gentleman and makes a fatal mistake. He says, "I forgive you." And she explodes in a derisive giggle. Even more than the insult, he senses the threat. "Then this letter is not the worst of it?" he asks, and she replies, like a death sentence: "The worst is my coming back...
...final has reached such a fever pitch - especially since his televised interview Wednesday did little to clear things up - is that it's about much more than trash talking. Even if Zidane avoided confirming or denying the initial speculation that there had been a racial dimension to the insult that provoked him, the incident is a reflection of the social divisions that persist in an increasingly multi-cultural Europe...
...Materazzi acknowledged he talked trash to Zidane, but said there was no racism, Islamophobia, or "yo mama" aspect to it. "It was the kind of insult you will hear dozens of times and just slips out of the ground," Materazzi told the Italian daily La Gazetta dello Sport. "I didn't call Zidane a terrorist and certainly didn't mention his mother." For his part, Zidane has only told intimates that the comment that set (and sent) him off was "very serious," but that he regrets the brutal reaction that marked the end to the last game of his long...
...When Justice Kennedy asked the state lawyers whether the plan was an insult to Latino voters, I was electrified," Perales said. "One party takes us for granted, the other ignores us." The court's decision now means neither party can ignore the "2.3 million new [Latino] Texans who brought us two new districts," Perales said...
...before the match, both Reyna and Arena had talked about not giving up the first goal. Yet 22 minutes into the match the Americans were down 1-0 after Dramani strode in on keeper Kasey Keller, finishing crisply into the right corner. To add injury to insult, Reyna was stretchered from the field with a knee injury that later forced him out of the game...