Word: malignities
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...Confusing the simply antisocial with the revolutionary, Mailer develops an aesthetic whose chief temperamental characteristic is a malign machismo, still dear to those in the New Left who have fallen under Mailer's spell in adolescence or continue to confuse Che Guevara with the brassy cliche of the Westerns," she wrote. In Mailer's world, "sex is war, war is sexual," and so women are the enemy, to be treated with violence as a solution for male angst...
...charming when he needed to be, capable of holding his twisted, demonic drives in check with a keen intelligence. No moment in the opera was more splendidly sung or powerfully acted than the second act S i, pel ciel, with Otello looming over him with upraised hand, like a malign marionette master. In this scene Verdi transcended Shakespeare, said Shaw. Watching Domingo and Milnes, one could only agree...
...Bloomsberries' influence in publishing, journalism and the arts struck some observers as malign, a means of thwarting outsiders and puffing their own productions. In sanctifying personal relations and sexual freedom, they risked seeming ingrown and self-indulgent...
...purchases for services any different, any less related to the tasks of the University? I believe you malign the moral seriousness of the problem faced by these textile workers. Very much to the point, Harvard's decision to allow students to opt out of paying for UHS abortions represents an institutional decision that this issue was serious enough to be put before the Harvard community. At the very least this approach should be pursued with the Stevens issue...
...although they are nameless and faceless figures to the public, the more than 13,000 people who staff the committees and offices of members of Congress are neither malign nor inconspicuous. Many of them can be seen standing behind the rail at the rear of the House, and slipping in formation to Senators on the floor of the other chamber...