Word: rude
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...living wage don’t like the self-righteous attitude of the living wage campaign. Though they are fighting a worthy cause, the protesters are increasingly giving off the attitude that they are martyring themselves for the sake of the world, and they are snippy and rude to anybody who is not as committed as they are. They have lost perspective and have such grandiose views of their current situation that sometimes it seems as if the issue has become more about them than about those they are trying to help, even if this is not the case...
...workers' right to a living wage. The very least the PSLM can do, in my opinion, is offer a little respect to Summers as the new man at the top. PSLM members claim that the protest targeted the confidentiality of the selection process and not Summers himself, but the rude timing and manner of the protest still disrespected...
...These economic tensions, added to the age-old stereotypes of the Madurese as clannish, threatening and rude, made it easy to roil the Dayaks. Combine that with the Dayak claim that all Madurese men carry knives which they are all too willing to use, and the Madurese become in Dayak eyes a perfect scapegoat for their woes. It is easier, after all, to blame the Madurese next door for Dayak problems than the central government in Jakarta...
...with his outsize movie-actor talent. He burrows into roles as different as the paunchy tobacco scientist in The Insider and the hostage rescuer in Proof of Life. He gives intelligent, sexy performances. The question is whether his gifts can overcome his rep as a hard-case?a rude womanizer and, by all accounts, a balky guy on a movie...
...when she arrived drunk at the Crimson Sports Grille later that night, she was given a rude awakening when she saw her proctor sitting at a table with Assistant Dean of Freshmen Philip A. Bean...