Word: pariah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...magical effects. On a squalid Cairo street early on a cold, foul day, people greet each other with small bouquets of words: "Morning of blessings! Morning of light!" They have conjured a moment, and smiled, and passed, and then, poof! they are back on a miserable street among the pariah dogs. If people are poor and live in the desert, language may be their richest possession: Why not? It opens miraculously onto other worlds. The Koran, with its bursts of sonority and light, describes a paradise that has everything the desert does not: the sweetest water, cool shade, silken couches...
...Pariah No Longer...
That assumption proved wrong. Very wrong. "I felt like a pariah from the rest of the world," Rhew says...
Saddam Hussein is an evil dictator, who deserves to be the international pariah he has become. But this is not our war. Liberating a tiny Gulf state and humiliating the tyrant of the week is not an acceptable rationale for massive American casualites...
...message to conservatives: We reject your way of thinking. We demand that you say nothing against us. If you do, we (and the Politically Correct ideological machine that backs our agenda) will make you a pariah...