Word: satanizing
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...conversation with "Allah is great!" and "Praise Allah!" The bin Laden home movie mixes ejaculations of piety with postgame Islamic towel snapping and a chillingly cynical amusement at the sucker martyrs. Combine the piety and the thug's mirth, and you get something of that lounging insolence with which Satan, at the opening of the Book of Job, answers God's "Whence comest thou?" with: "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it." A sneering theological swagger. Evil usually feels comfortable with itself. If it had doubts, it would not be evil...
...have joined those from the U.S. to sell the idea that Pakistan is no longer a pariah state, that Islamabad is suddenly Islamagood. Germany and Japan have again gone to war, this time on the same side as Britain and the U.S. Iran, which long called America the Great Satan, is showing more signs than ever that it is on the road to reform, and can play a role in rebuilding neighboring Afghanistan. But what's changed in Chechnya? Are the Balkans any less bitterly divided? Is Spain's terror-riven Basque country any more unified...
...unexpected casualties of Sept. 11 was Iran's uniformly hard-line attitude toward the "Great Satan," the United States. The atrocities gave the country's reformists a much-needed moral and political boost, convincing many the time was right to push for better relations with Washington ? despite the objections of hard-liners and ideologues...
...Hong Kong actresses whose age, 31, exceeds the number of her movies?she has uglied-up, gotten disfigured, played a schizophrenic, a tomboy, a killer, a lesbian, and the plain old-fashioned bitch. In First Love: The Litter on the Breeze, she's described by one character as having "Satan's eyes." Few actresses would jump at a chance to play a female character named Turkey but she did, in Stephen Chow's God of Cookery. She tucked away her plumage to create a visually impaired, bucktoothed, kick-ass noodle vendor, for which she was again nominated by the Academy...
When Colin Powell went before Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee wanting to know just what America could do to reverse the image of America as the Great Satan in the Arab world, he found himself explaining his choice of former advertising executive Charlotte Beers to fill the position of Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy. "Well, guess what? She got me to buy Uncle Ben's rice and so there is nothing wrong with getting somebody who knows how to sell something...