Word: shrills
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Coulter represents the "Ugly American" in a little black dress. Whether she truly believes her shrill rhetoric or is simply opportunistic, there are legions who base their opinions on what she says. Your article ignored the danger of her racist and extremist ranting and gave her undeserved credibility...
...magazine's writers would spar over the major issues of the day: race, sex and communism. In recent years, the Nation has drifted toward ideological orthodoxy, which has cheered its liberal base but driven out such lively writers as Christopher Hitchens, who quit to protest the magazine's shrill contempt for the Bush Administration's foreign policy. Navasky's book is a reminder of a time when magazines served as forums for "moral and political argument, rational deliberation, critical analysis of the problem." Those are qualities that are missing in American political life right now, and not just...
...Oresteia” is excellent. Jack E. Fishburn’s ’08 Agamemnon is riveting in his tortured grandeur; his rage and despair tears through the scenery. As Clytemnestra, Erica R. Lipez ’05 swings plausibly from vengeance-crazed virago to shrill housewife (one of the production’s conceits is the coy use of Americana nuclear-family trappings). Lauren L. Jackson ’07, as the Leader of the Furies, exudes menace and dances wonderfully; Scottie Thompson ’05, as the doomed Trojan seer Cassandra, is eerie and compelling. Sara...
...excellence reaches beyond the lead performances. Michael B. Hoagland ’07 convincingly expands his range to include perverse bloodlust as Orestes, though Carla M. Borras ’05 re-deploys her penchant for the shrill as his sister Elektra. In fact, Borras strikes an incredibly emotional chord in addressing, in her Yorick-style, the head of her slain stepfather; however, despite her wit elsewhere, Borras really could ratchet down the decibel level and spread her laudable energy a little more thinly...
...companies in countries that do not care much for human rights and are willing to make a quick buck without competition. Boycotts and divestment are meaningless unless there are harsh penalties for not complying. “Harsh penalties” generally mean government sanctions and not the shrill cries (or silent protest) of college students several thousand miles away...