Word: rancorous
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...Harvard Law School; Sweet sends Southern gal Melanie--who had fled to New York City, found success as a designer and landed the mayor's son as her fiance--back home to get a quick divorce from Jake (Josh Lucas), the boy she had loved, wed and left in rancor. But Jake is so steamed that he won't sign the papers. The whole town turns on Melanie for becoming a spoiled Yankee brat. And the mayor dispatches spies to learn her dirty white-trash secret...
...exempt from the tripartite rancor, early Christians used their understanding of Abraham, who they claimed found grace outside Jewish law, to prove that the older religion begged for replacement--a contention that helped propel almost two millenniums of anti-Semitism...
...mouth luscious and sneering, his eyes mascara'd like a silent-screen sheik, Curtis' Sidney is all bustle and rancor, ever moving, biting his nails, full of unfocused nervous energy. Coming into his office ("What is here? A wake?") to find his uncle and Dallas steaming about the smear item Sidney had planted, Curtis paces, runs fingers through his greasy hair, and then picks up their cue: they want a fight, OK, he'll bounce, circle, jab and jabber like a boxer in a Garden prelim. Out on 52nd Street with J.J., he pleads, "Stop beating me on the head...
...lack of this social capital. Until the late 1980s, he was known as an advocate of the more conservative view that black society was ultimately responsible for this deficiency. This stance, coming from an African-American, won him the appreciation of the right and drew a certain amount of rancor from the left, particularly among liberal black Americans...
...West Djukanovic's star has clearly faded since Milosevic's ouster. Foreign Minister Lukovac recalls with rancor how the President and his allies were once the West's darlings when Montenegro was a base for funding the anti-Milosevic opposition. "All that is now forgotten," Lukovac says. "We are, it seems, disposable friends." But Western officials still must deal with one reality that is not easily disposed of: those Montenegrins who want independence, come what...