Word: rude
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...rude, accusatory and cynical. I have been accused of being unpatriotic, anti-Israeli, anti-Arab and anti-American. I meddle in politics, harass illegal businesses and cause other untold difficulties for governments. Some say I am arrogant and self-righteous. I am glad. That is what makes good reporters...
...They are rude and accusatory, cynical and almost unpatriotic. They twist facts to suit their not-so-hidden liberal agenda. They meddle in politics, harass business, invade people's privacy, and then walk off without regard to the pain and chaos they leave behind. They are arrogant and self-righteous, brushing aside most criticism as the uninformed carping of cranks and ideologues. To top it off, they claim that their behavior is sanctioned, indeed sanctified, by the U.S. Constitution...
...college football's best player, Gill and Fryar consider Rozier's election this weekend a foregone and happy conclusion. When asked to describe Rozier, the runner, Fryar simply says, "Heisman." But Rozier personally expresses little interest in hardware. "All it is," he says, not wishing to be rude, "is a little statue of a runner. I guess if I win it, I'll give the hands to Irving and the head to Turner." The legs...
...owner graciously allows her to use the place in his absence, though the household staff apparently does not approve. They are evasive, rude and sometimes just country queer...
...tragic tart that custom usually dictates in works of this kind. In an arrestingly straightforward, naturalistic performance, Hemingway suggests neither portents of doom nor a sense that she is self-destructively abandoning herself to a media fairy tale from which the only possible awakening is a rude one. If her physical resemblance to Stratten is only approximate, her portrayal of an adolescent girl caught up, giggly and unaware, in the excitement of a surprise party that someone, mysteriously, decided to throw for her is fresh and touching. And one that, in effect, concedes the dramatic center of the film...