Word: mistrustful
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...felt it would contribute to a nasty atmosphere on the council, already too full of mistrust for the good of the city," she said...
...behalf of the student body it previously claimed should be the sole judge of whether Burton's actions merited removal from office. From what oracle does The Crimson derive its authority to speak on behalf of the student body? The Crimson is confident in its assumption that students mistrust the Undergraduate Council's current administration; I am as confident that the student body mistrusts The Crimson's presumption in these matters...
...getting dark (although things obviously do get a little scarier). The real tension is found among the group that survived the initial crash landing. A deal is made to make the convict Riddick a full partner in the group. You can imagine the issues of trust and mistrust that are going to come up here...
Another young author, Jedediah Purdy, last year published For Common Things, about the threat of the "ironic individual," possessed of acute self-awareness and mistrust, which, Purdy argued, led to cynicism. Heartbreaking Work is a resounding rebuttal. In it, literary gamesmanship and self-consciousness are trained on life's most unendurable experience, used to examine a memory too scorching to stare at, as one views an eclipse by projecting sunlight onto paper through a pinhole. This is not irony obscuring sincerity. It is, finally, irony in the service of sincerity...
...complete investigation and a statement insisting they will "continue to provide maximum protection to human health and to the environment." Part of the problem, says Thompson, is that whatever the true situation at the plant, the military has done a lousy public relations job. "There's a lot of mistrust on both sides," he adds. And now Harris, who alleges he became ill from exposure to industrial chemicals used in the incineration process, could emerge as exactly the whistle-blower environmental and health activists have been looking for. "The plant's opponents have been screaming for years that...