Word: rude
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...people have been rude about Hector Berlioz," says English Conductor Colin Davis, and he wishes they would quit. Alas, poor Berlioz has suffered more than his share. In 1829, when he was 25, he submitted his passionately theatrical piece for soprano and orchestra, Cléopâtre, to the Prix de Rome committee. It was rejected with a scolding from one of the judges, who said, "You refuse to write like everybody else. Even your rhythms are new. You would invent new modulations if such a thing were possible." The story goes that when Gioachino Rossini was shown Berlioz...
...Rude? Surly? Nasty? I find that people on the streets are far more polite and friendly than they used to be, and about one in 20 is no longer afraid to look...
...something in O'Neill refuses to be belittled. It is as if his greatness lies in his will to be great. His passionate intentions, in fact, become his talent-a rude, almost barbaric thrust that can seize a blase Broadway crowd and wring it dry, half from fatigue, half from an emotional buffeting that no other American playwright ever inflicted on an audience. O'Neill could do what only a major artist can do: make his public share in the life of his private demons...
...busload of Wallace girls rolled by, and dozens of teenage faces peered out through the window and across the intervening darkness to the press bus. The reporters looked back and made rude gestures with their hands and yelled at the girls, and then settled back in their seats and waited for Harrisburg...
Webster's describes "graffiti" as being "a rude inscription or drawing found on walls or stones." However, graffiti for the contest can take any form, be it on a sign, bumper sticker, or toilet paper...