Word: recoil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victimhood tops off America's long-cherished culture of therapeutics. Thus we create a juvenile culture of complaint in / which Big Daddy is always to blame and the expansion of rights goes on without the other half of citizenship: attachment to duties and obligations. We are seeing a public recoil from formal politics, from the active, reasoned exercise of citizenship. It comes because we don't trust anyone. It is part of the cafard the '80s induced: Wall Street robbery, the savings and loan scandal, the wholesale plunder of the economy, an orgy released by Reaganomics that went...
Most of us recoil at the prospect of having to critique our belief systems, but this should be one of the goals of a true artist. The narrow-minded leadership of the National Organization of Women and their equally bigoted right-wing equivalents are a threat to all that want and value freedom of expression and the right to dissent...
...slowly dawned on me that unless I mumbled under my breath, the famous quotation concept was leading nowhere. Time for Plan B: a response to an engagement announcement so understated and realistic that is was sure to be a hit. Rather than recoil in surprise and shock, I would announce an immediate prophecy of the couple's life prospects 30 years down the road...
Many readers will now recoil in horror, but truth is truth. I live in a group of six juniors. One is a bio concentrator. One is an artist. The other four are waiting for LSAT scores...
...only human nature to wish for the best, to recoil from the prospect of massive cost and suffering. In this instance, optimism was further fueled by vivid memories of the two-month war in the Falklands, the nine-day conquest of Grenada and the 14-day ousting of Manuel Noriega as dictator of Panama. While repeatedly reminding audiences that Iraq is a better entrenched and more highly armed opponent than the loser in any of those conflicts, President Bush also recurrently promised that any battle against Iraq would in no way resemble the "protracted, drawn-out war" in Vietnam...