Word: ragingly
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...equal-opportunity annoyer. He condemns whites for manufacturing the old image of the shiftless, larcenous Negro and for still seeing blacks through that warped prism. He also chastises blacks for inhabiting restrictive new and polar-opposite categories: the gangsta and the Buppie. Satire typically proceeds from two impulses: rage at the powerful and contempt for the masses. Lee has both...
Satire at its sharpest leaves the stain of guilt in all who are exposed to it. With his panoramic rage, Lee shows how every generation, of every color, runs the risk of being bamboozled...
...buttonhole or a pretty woman on his arm. He knifed through dowdy Canadian politics like the classy skier he was--moving gracefully, radiating freedom, yet somehow making all the gates. He was sardonic, often arrogant, prone to lecture. In parliamentary debate, his abrasiveness drove the opposition into spasms of rage. There's a danger Trudeau will be remembered for his style more than his achievements. That would be a mistake. He used the army against Quebec terrorists while forcing the English-speaking provinces to make services available in French. He led a rethinking of the constitutional structure of the country...
...gets sick of so much holy rage - of the conflicts of two peoples, each of whom see themselves as victims, and, being victims, justified in any murderous thing they may do. When the victim's mentality is planted in holy ground, it becomes fissionable material. Maybe it's time for some international authority, some parental presence, to move in and take over...
...Dubai man's idea of importing stones by the truckload comports perfectly with the neighborhood's taste for surreal gestures, for mythomania. The peace process is dying because nothing rational can survive in this physics of rage. Perhaps the peace process has merely been a distraction, anyway, like Sheherazade's stories spun night after night to stave off inevitable execution...