Word: righteously
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Afghanistan is going well. The Rockaway plane crash is looking like an ordinary accident. And there are no new anthrax victims. Seems like a good time to enjoy a breather, a holiday from seriousness, the seriousness we woke up to on Sept. 11. Hence the righteous fulmination from critics left and right against measures the Bush Administration has put in place to detain, question and try suspected terrorists...
...Among the one billion Muslims around the globe, brand USA is in decline. As Ms. Beers surely knows, we don't have a brand awareness problem - America is the quintessential global brand - we have a brand perception problem. For many Muslims around the word, America is a selfish, self-righteous, self-absorbed monster that pays lip-service to democracy but supports despots throughout the Third World. And at the moment they see the U.S. as the instigator of a great humanitarian disaster...
...angry anti-American protesters on our cover were the last thing many of you wanted to see. "What are you trying to do," asked a Louisiana reader, "scare all the mothers of the servicemen and -women sent to fight this war? It would have been better to show the righteous fury of a Navy SEAL or an Army paratrooper." Objecting to the "Muslims screaming hate against America," a Texan asked, "Why not show the heroic workers cleaning up the rubble in New York?" "We have enough reminders of the terror without that revolting picture," declared an Arizonan. But plenty...
...textbook case of cockblock-by-a-political-scion when Walter B. Kubisch ’03 had his hopes for getting with righteous babe Virginia C. Macleod ’04 dashed after she confessed to a crush on Al Gore III ’05. Said Kubisch bitterly, “This is worse than the time I was cockblocked by Jeb Bush...
...these paths of catastrophic mechanical failure, the idea of a hijacking never entered my mind, not even once. My thoughts were well ensconced in the man vs. nature theme—with nature exacting a devilish price for the sheer hubris of man—not deranged and self-righteous men taking the lives of countless innocents. Hijackings were things that happened to airliners of other more fractious nations, or in the decade just prior to my existence—the bleary and shadowy 1970s...