Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...exchange for money, the key issue remains. Disney has a right to distribute what it wants to distribute, but we also reserve the right to criticize malicious decisions. Disney’s choice to use its powerful financial position to keep political expression from the public is an insult to all Americans. If Disney is willing to allow Miramax to make the movies it wants to make, Disney ought to be willing to follow through with its own contract to distribute those films...
...Crimson Staff stated that the project leaders’ “motives are questionable” because the project stood to potentially win a Challenge Team prize of $250. This suggestion is an insult to everyone involved. The project was initiated by a resident tutor who wanted to raise awareness about how the University can participate in the marketplace for renewable energy. The project did, in fact, win the Green Cup Challenge on Wednesday along with a $250 award. As stated Thursday on the project’s website and in an e-mail to the Quincy open list...
...graduation he drifted back to New York City and the Job. His real education began at Police Service Area 7, also known as Claremont Village, a rough housing project in the Bronx, and that's where Blue Blood begins. "The ghetto could be a world of three-dimensional, 360 insult," he discovers, "where no one had enough so they ruined what they had, and then came looking for yours." He learns to turn his hat around while patrolling dark stairwells--to minimize telltale reflections--and to expect a sergeant to touch a beat officer's shield after a winter patrol...
...Testament lines calling Christ's death a ransom, but he could not believe that the devil was owed anything. So he restructured the cosmic debt. It was, he posed, humanity that owed God the Father a ransom of "satisfaction" (to use Anselm's feudal terminology) for the insult of sin. The problem was that the debt was unpayable: not only did we lack the means, since everything we had of value was God's to begin with, but also we lacked the standing, like a lowly serf helpless to erase an injury to a great lord. Eternal damnation seemed unavoidable...
...INSULT TO CHURCHILL...