Word: insultingly
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...dare someone say that the darling of Good Morning America, Joan Lunden, is an "empty head." It takes brains to get along and have patience with people. What an insult to one of the nicest females...
...part. Says Hurt's literature: "They [the sponsors] are the 'Achilles' heel' of the entire television industry ... The purpose of the campaign is not to take programs off the air, but to insist that they be cleaned up so that they are no longer an insult to decency and [a] negative influence on our young people...
...insult to your readers to think that they give a damn what Richard M. Nixon feels should be done in this country. To dignify a man who disgraced the presidency and used every means possible while in office for his own gain is objectionable to most of your readers...
...antiexpressionist too; painters like Otto Dix, George Grosz or Christian Schad, having survived the 1914 war, and being immersed in the suffering, inflation and political instability of their defeated country, had no time for the cloudy redemptive ecstasies of German expressionism: its inwardness was, so to speak, an insult to the collective. "My aim is to be understood by everyone," Grosz wrote in 1925. "I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a veritable diving bell crammed with cabalistic crap and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionist anarchy has got to stop...
...profiteering helped cause the postwar shortages of food in German cities. Sly, pig-stupid and stuffed with moral rectitude, this rural trio looks like a brutal parody of Grant Wood's American Gothic (in fact, it was painted ten years earlier). Scholz took care to spread his political insult as far as pos sible; Weimar inflation is symbolized by the cretinous child, snot-nosed and snaggletoothed, blowing up a live frog by means of a straw stuck in its anus. In the end, one would need to be half a thug to be politically swayed by such an image...