Word: rancorous
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...changed, with all its harsh geometry of triangles and unrequited passions; nor do we have any difficulty recognizing its evergreen cast of characters: the impatient suitor trying to persuade his girl to let him share her bed, the fair-weather swain shifting in an instant from rhapsody to rancor, the lovers plotting to escape a tyrannical father (only to find that they cannot so easily escape themselves). Puck, we realize, would make a dream host on The Love Connection, and the rude mechanicals, rehearsing "most obscenely and courageously," would surely be an instant hit on prime time. We recognize...
More important than rancor over specific positions is the impression that social crusading is turning the faith into a "political agenda masked with a veneer of spirituality," in the harsh words of Kent Hill of the conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy. A. James Reichley of the Brookings Institution believes that mainline "social and political action takes away from the religious focus." Mainliners sometimes seem more convinced about the virtues of the Sandinistas or the vices of Nestle than, say, the meaning of Christ's Crucifixion and Resurrection...
Before the last two weeks, the campaign had been relatively free of the racial rancor that had marked recent mayoral elections. Since then, Daley has been accused of being a racist and Sawyer's camp used a videotape in which Daley appears to tell a predominantly white audience that "you want a white mayor...
...essential unifying force. The propositions they support may be little more than useless clutter, a reassurance that the U.S. is not vulnerable to a Quebec-style bilingualism with all its attendant bitterness. Ironically, it is the debate over the ballot initiatives themselves that has created so much rancor...
...presidential election, where name recognition is nearly universal and news coverage is unending, there is no justification for televised ads. They can tell us about nothing, except the skill of the media consultants who produced them. They serve only to muddle thought, to stir up rancor, to provide a false front for the failure to address the issues...