Word: rancorous
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Since then, in a pattern evident in other denominations as well, the liberal designs of U.P.C. officials have run afoul of a growing conservatism among the membership. "Some of the daring pursuits of national church bodies led to rancor in the ranks," wrote Dennis Shoemaker, editor of a U.P.C...
...type. The various slaves and Frenchmen are distinct individuals as well as symbols; a major reason for the purity of Solitude's anger is her heritage, developed beyond that of most other slaves. The fantasies of slave-owners are indictment enough without the glaze of the author's own rancor, and one of the oppressors is almost sympathetic, with strong psychological motivations for his actions as a slave-owner (his father had been a white slave), and an occasional charitable impulse. Schwarz-Bart indicts the stupid, parasitic values of a colonial culture; it is not necessary for him to deny...
...practically from birth, puts them both in a series of cages. As he pursues his life of humanitarian crime, Chuff ponders the plight of men and animals, and very satisfactorily reflects on the loyalties and limitations of the British class system with a clear eye and an absence of rancor and cant that should delight the ghost of George Orwell...
...hummed quietly with the intellectual energies of men like Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Now the halls of its large Georgian central building, set on an isolated wooded hilltop near Princeton University, are filled with outraged mutterings about "breach of confidence," "contemptible conduct" and "second-rate scholarship." This uncharacteristic rancor surrounds an epic struggle between a majority of the institute's faculty and its director, Economist Carl Kaysen...
...soon as he was elected chairman, he chatted with McGovern and Ted Kennedy. Last week he saw George Wallace and made plans to talk to George Meany, Edmund Muskie and Humphrey. "The first thing we've got to do," he says, "is to take the bitterness and rancor out of our political discourse. It started at Chicago in 1968 and it has never abated...