Word: rancorous
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Modern theologians find such passages highly subject to interpretation. They point out that Jesus and the Apostles saw themselves as Jews; John's wholesale condemnation of the faith, they speculate, may reflect Christian-Jewish rancor in A.D. 95, when that Gospel was written, more than the politics of Jesus' era. The great Catholic scholar Raymond Brown concluded upon meticulous examination that the "blood on our children" line was a specific group's oath of responsibility rather than an assumption of eternal, racial guilt...
...Even in staunch ally Britain, rancor is building over the tribunals. "Does the Pentagon think the U.S. is the only country in the world ever to face terrorism?" asks Kelly of the Bar Council. Britain (to fight the Irish Republican Army), Italy (to fight the Mafia) and many other countries have modified their courts to combat terrorists without depriving suspects of so many rights. Especially galling has been the way the Bush Administration treated John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban. Even though he was captured fighting against coalition forces in Afghanistan, he was not deemed an "enemy combatant...
...There’s a lot of rancor...on the staff,” he said. “There may be nowhere...
...Hollywood, they say that movies are diversions from life's anxiety, rancor and tragedy. In the rest of the world, films are often a reflection of those troubles, a mirror into the dark soul of humanity. So each May, 35,000 movie folk convene in a Riviera paradise, where they place a stethoscope to mankind's heart and announce, this guy is sick...
...humiliate prim decorator Doris, playboy Rock masquerades as a sweet-natured Texan) and Sex and the Single Girl (to humiliate prim sex-book author Natalie Wood, magazine writer Tony Curtis feigns being a frustrated husband seeking counseling). Now as then, the two leads must run the gamut of passion, rancor and against-their-wills romance--all in glam Manhattan penthouses (Barbara's digs were inspired by the How to Marry a Millionaire set), where the not-quite lovers swig martinis to the underscoring of wisecracking trombones...