Word: rejectionism
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Kirn's piece was more of a trip down the yellow brick road than an accurate interpretation of events. While we are delighted to have the new Governor, his election and that of the Democratic legislature had more to do with a rejection of the abysmal record of the past...
“There is a withdrawal that is signaled by acts of hiding, putting away, and sealing, and a rejection of external contact that is demonstrated by cardboard boxes,” she says.
Despite their physical ordeal, many AIDS sufferers say that the worst aspect of their condition is the sense of isolation and personal rejection. "It's like wearing the scarlet letter," says a 35-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer who was forced out of a job at a top Texas law...
Five minutes of watching a field hockey game on the L.S.U. campus produces a quick and no doubt prejudiced rejection of the sport: clotted misery, so constipated by defense, whistle blowing and too many players that a successful scoring drive seems accidental. A stroll to the archery field, where Rick...
The agenda, for now, seems to involve some deceptively risky experiments with form, as well as a complete rejection of realism in favor of that empathy and emotion he wants so badly to convey. Foer doesn’t care what it takes to get to the reader, he says...