Word: judgemental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written glowing professional recommendations for Dr. Arif Hussain, failing to mention his rape conviction handed down only a few weeks earlier. Administrators at both institutions expressed "regret" about the unfortunate incident, but they refused to comment further on the case. Instead of confronting the difficult issues raised, they deferred judgement on both the physicians' actions and the more complicated ethical questions involved to two joint committees formed within the staff of the organizations...
GREAT LINES still abound, of course. Anyone who could construct the following commentary on Proust obviously had not lost it all. "In Steinberg's judgement--and he buttresses it with a formidable array of interior evidence from the work--Proust's Madeleine was in reality a matzo ball, and the past unfolded itself to the Master as he sat hunched over a bowl of chicken soup in Flambaum's, the famous kosher restaurant in Paris..." And, almost invariably, the Perelman opening moves are as fine as always. For example, the beginning of "All Precincts Beware--Pater Tigress Loose...
Stockman said at a later White House press conference that he regretted and withdrew his own "poor judgement and loose talk." "I deeply regret any harm that I've done," he said, adding, "I am grateful for this second chance to get on with the job the American people sent President Reagan...
...watch them go at one another. Jean Paul Sartre did something along these lines in No Exit. But in No Exit, the room was hell;here the room is sanctuary. Hell waits outside; the streets of Brooklyn, the killing ground, the butcher shop, the world of bizarre grotesques, of judgement, of guilt, of responsibility...
Before the vote, John N. Westling, an assistant to Silber, said the union's rejection of the contract would be a "mistake," adding, "It would be an error in their judgement, but that't their right...