Word: mistrustfulness
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Some may, unfortunately, mistrust her because she's a woman. Others, more justifiably, may mistrust her because of her political agenda, which is different from the one on which her husband was narrowly elected. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a powerful Washington figure who is democratically unaccountable and can neither be fired nor impeached. That's enough to give anyone pause...
Just as Whistler honed Sickert's taste for art-world polemics and politics, so his long association with Degas steered him away from being a provincial Impressionist, grazing on first sensations. Construct in the studio, do studies, mistrust "the tyranny of nature." And if you want narrative, why not have it? The world, especially the city -- for Sickert was an intensely urban painter -- was crammed with narratives, and like Degas, Sickert found his in closed rooms and places of popular entertainment. For Degas's cafes concerts, Sickert substituted the British music hall, then at its apex of rowdy success...
Simply put, our culture needs heroes. The very principle of democracy that gives us all the chance to be potential leaders is also the principle which instills in us an instinctive and often harmful mistrust of leaders or any figures who stand out from the common crowd...
...adolescents has been shaken by the rapid shift from communism to capitalism. Explains Britta Kolberg, a social worker in east Berlin schools: "Kids see parents who were convinced socialists and are now 100% supporters of the new society. They have turned around so completely that there is a general mistrust of grownups...
...being an entertainer in such a complex field is a difficult task, "an ongoing battle with scientists" who always assume the worst--that an ignorant reporter will get a detail wrong and destroy the story. Angier says scientists' mistrust of writers is unwarranted. "By and large, I find my colleagues to be incredibly well-trained and sophisticated about science," she says...