Word: lashing
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...peninsula, miss hidden weapons or start a devastating war between North and South Korea. A more practical tactic would be the imposition of economic sanctions by the United Nations -- but even if China, long friendly to the North, did not veto an embargo, Pyongyang might feel cornered and lash...
What sets her well apart from the ruck of writers is the lash and sting of her language. She can summon ferocity without effort, can smilingly backhand reader or character into a tumbled heap. But she uses this violent gift in a curiously selective way. At the outset of The Shipping News, she demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been...
...novel for me was a wonderful feeling. It was like getting into a warm bath and being able to spread out and loll around in these lovely paragraphs and pages of description." Fair warning: a warm, lolling author does not mean that readers and characters will escape Proulx's lash. She assesses the tone of her Accordion Crimes as "black and scarlet...
Shilts refutes the assertion with some vivid reporting. He digs up a long- buried Navy study that found no correlation between sexual behavior and job performance. Winston Churchill's era of "rum, sodomy and the lash" has given way to unofficial evenings in gay on-board clubs, special newsletters, travel guides and lubricants formulated in ships' pharmacies...
...anti-Semitic? Is it acceptable to invite a man who uses a wheelchair even though he is a self-proclaimed racist? Asserting that Powell's achievements outweigh his bigotry is exactly the type of divisive behavior Kelly condemns in his letter: "it is counter-productive if victims of discrimination lash out at other victims...