Word: scoundrel
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...gasp!) St. Louis, Mo. He's one of these erudite wastrels like Stephen Dedalus who quote scripture freely, but unlike Dedalus, you can't imagine him touching anybody, even himself. He's more like Lovelace, the libertine villain in Clarissa: a devout person's idea of what a scoundrel might be like. And if we don't know, really know, why Jack left Gilead, we cannot feel what it costs him to come home...
...remembers Hasna Maryi ever opening her family's Koran. She rarely attended her village mosque, and she told others she regarded the imam, who once made a pass at her, as a lecherous scoundrel. It was not religious extremism that made this villager from Anbar province blow herself up at an Iraqi-police checkpoint last summer, killing three officers and injuring at least 10 civilians...
...place), about a Mafia clan's reach throughout the country, and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo (the third-place Jury Prize), a snazzy-looking, corrosively cynical biopic of three-time Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. When he was shown the film before Cannes, Andreotti called it "the act of a scoundrel." After Il Divo won its prize, he took the longer view. "For anybody in politics, it seems to me, to be ignored is worse than to be criticized," he said, adding, "I'm happy for the producer. If I'd had a share in the profits I'd be even...
...Emanuel said. “I think there are very few people who could have done it.” At a dinner Friday night, Bok recounted his efforts more than two decades ago to convince Thompson to head the project. “He, that scoundrel, would not come!” Bok said, in reference to the eight years he waited for Thompson to accept the post. As guests celebrated the center’s first 20 years, Thompson said that there are still challenges ahead for the Safra Center and other ethics institutes...
...would "discourage our troops and hearten our enemies," he said. A day later, I asked Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska about politicians--not Lieberman specifically--who made such statements. "They're despicable," he said, in a decidedly unsenatorial tone. "Those sorts of statements are the last refuge of a scoundrel. They suggest a lack of patriotism on the part of people like me and John Warner and Carl Levin. They hurt our democracy...