Word: rancorous
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hubble is glad to discuss such objections objectively. Even when an adversary uses that subtle, stylized rancor with which the more quarrelsome scientists conduct their controversies, he reacts with courtly tolerance...
...bandits" who hauled them from a bus shouting: "You are Americans, and Americans must die!" They were Martha Anderson of Minneapolis, Esther Nordlund of Chicago, and Dr. Alexis Berg of Finland, all attached to an Evangelical Covenant Mission in Hupeh. Others, who reached Hankow, told their stories quietly, without rancor...
...Senate one bitter speech followed another. Texas' white-maned Senator Tom Connally shook a trembling finger at Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, accusing him of pouring out "the vomit of his hate, prejudice, rancor and ambition." While Bob Taft pleaded with him, Idaho's banjo-playing Democratic Senator Glen Taylor cunningly piled books on his desk as though he was preparing to make a long harangue. He sent a note to the press gallery: "Don't worry . . . I'm not going to make a speech. I just want to drive Taft to distraction-senatorial...
...Pleasures of Cookery. Leo's fraternal rancor against Gertrude is rarely expressed, and then only indirectly, as when he recalls that when they were children "everything Gertrude tried to cook turned out badly, but I made bread and apfelstrudel-which is very difficult. . . ." But he declares that Gertrude didn't take up Picasso until Picasso had gone wrong, i.e., cubist. Leo's case against cubism is cogently argued...
...best in Chopin, and vice versa. Chopin's elusive poetic shadings and magical fire are easy to overdo. As a Pole, Rubinstein seems to understand the zal in Chopin's works, which Music Critic James Huneker defined as "a baleful compound of pain, sadness, secret rancor and revolt...