Word: spitefully
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...called the theories: “The one fourth of them were Muslim thesis,” and the “Islam as a counter-establishment in order to spite the white majority thesis...
...when one friend suddenly left her university halfway through the year to enroll at a local college, I was taken aback. Never before had it occurred to me that there might be more to the story than what I was seeing. I would later learn that in spite of the upbeat entries posted in her online journal, there had been problems—that in spite of the smiling faces and spontaneity carefully captured in her photographs, she had been secretly unhappy...
Wedding Present made a name for themselves on the strength of their bitter, bitter break-up songs, so in light of the album’s biographical circumstances, the name switch comes across potentially as therapy. Their classics have always hit the right mix of spite, frustration, and wounded ego, as opposed to the more confident and musically assured catalog of Cinerama. But honestly, David, it’s a little quick to change the name—at least until you up the distortion a little more and ditch the strings...
...spite of my objections, I can see why the Coalition has timed raising its concerns to capitalize on Summers’ NBER gaffe. It’s terribly unfair to Harvard’s beleaguered president, but it makes some sense. Their final two demands, however, condemned the e-mail to my computer’s trash bin: “demanding that Harvard take steps to dismantle the final club system,” and, “the democratization of administrative decision-making...
Machiavelli's advice to political leaders was that it's more important to be feared than to be loved. That's no help for President Bush on his European tour; in spite of the warm words he's exchanging with European leaders, the reality is that the Bush administration is neither loved nor feared in growing sectors of the international community - increasingly, it is simply being ignored...