Word: malign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...usher us into a green sanctuary where hopes are fresh and struggles have no dire consequences except for gold and silver. And the meaning of the Olympics is that it puts things in a different perspective, in which sprites become giants and heroes become people once again. But the malign calculation of the bomb gave all such shifts a deadly tilt, as if to invert the Shakespearean affirmation: one touch of malice makes the whole world spin...
...quite true that before the House was renovated, no one wanted to live here. But since the creation of our beautiful dining room and our terrific fourth floor suites, we have been very popular. It pains us deeply that you malign us in this fashion. Certainly with random assignment, students have been assigned this year who did not wish to live here, but it is grossly unfair to claim that we are "traditionally one of the least popular houses...
...chronic tax raiser. Even as Alexander began to defend himself for a spot attacking Dole for supporting $320 billion in tax increases, Forbes rushed to pile on. "The ad is misleading," he said, and suggested that the actual number was closer to $1 trillion. "Don't malign my integrity here," Dole snapped after one particularly testy exchange with Forbes. For his part, Buchanan was hit hard by the other three on his protectionist trade stance. But despite accusations that the tariffs that Buchanan supports would destroy a South Carolina revived by foreign investors like BMW, Buchanan held his ground. Dole...
...doubt many of those people too go wanting for food, medication and heat. More jolting is the report's liberal calculus. Presenting four-year-old information and focusing on a Shanghai institution--just one of China's hundreds of orphanages--it finds that "the pattern of cruelty, abuse and malign neglect...now constitutes one of the country's gravest human-rights problems...
...STRONG SUBSURface themes of Smilla's Sense of Snow, the fine 1993 thriller by Peter Hoeg, a Danish novelist then new to America, was a slyly expressed contempt for what the author saw as his country's bourgeois self-satisfaction. This much relished contempt and cheerfully malign slyness are the driving forces of Hoeg's first novel, The History of Danish Dreams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 356 pages; $24), which has now been issued in the U.S. That said, there's not much similarity between the two novels. Smilla has a powerful narrative flow; Dreams is a lumpish absurdity that fuddles...