Word: shrills
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Being a Zionist has never been easy. It means having to constantly repeat the obvious without sounding shrill or tedious...
...entire campaign to force Augusta National Golf Club into admitting female members is absurd. Augusta is a private club, and is thus free to craft whatever membership policies it chooses. The Staff’s shrill complaints are misguided and irritating: people should be free to associate with whomever they choose without obnoxious criticism from newspaper editors...
...turn to wear the dunce cap, but this time around the disdain feels particularly shrill and personal. According to their enemies, SUV drivers aren't just road hogs; they're also sociopaths who are overcompensating for deep-seated feelings of inferiority...
...monument, and the appropriate significance of a memorial. Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Richard M. Sommer has called the entire process “a form of public therapy.” It is also a form of requiem, New York-style. It is loud and shrill and full of invective as well as praise...
...face--very dangerous--and they threaten to make the Security Council irrelevant. If France abstains, it's not a player. If it votes yes, Chirac looks like a weather vane." Small wonder that, according to several sources, French Foreign Minister de Villepin was openly agitated--"shrill," said one observer--at the meetings in New York last week. ("All you talk about is war. That's all you want to talk about," de Villepin said to Powell at a lunch after his speech.) But if Blix returns from Baghdad with a report damning Saddam, he will give the French a ladder...