Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...STING, singer, on why his new album Songs from the Labyrinth features only music by 16th century composer John Dowland...
...could face imprisonment. His is hardly the first high-level political scandal in Israel: Several past presidents, cabinet ministers and prime ministers have been investigated for financial improprieties; ex-Justice Minister Haim Ramon resigned this past August after being indicted for sexual harassment. But that won't lessen the sting for Olmert, who has seen his support nosedive this year as more and more Israelis have lost faith in their leaders...
...sharp sting of success. Last week Turkey was in the embarrassing position of having native son ORHAN PAMUK win the Nobel Prize for literature within a year of charging him with insulting Turkish identity. Critics also made much of Indian-born novelist KIRAN DESAI winning Britain's Man Booker Prize after her mum was short-listed three times for the $93,000 award. But the fuss is over. Everyone can go back to ignoring serious authors again...
...often those two subjects go hand-in-hand). The actors relish lines like, “Misfortunes one can endure—they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one’s own faults—ah!—there is the sting of life.” And they do remarkably well with many of the key scenes: a confrontation between Lady Windermere and Mrs. Erlynne is powerful, rich in desperation and dramatic irony. Nearly all the characters sound completely convincing talking elegantly about why they are ruthless or superficial or why they?...
...overly friendly" e-mails from Congressman Foley to one page were first made public on the "Stop Sex Predators" website-they were the sixth messages of any kind posted to the blog. This site has the look and feel of an amateur production-less a sophisticated sting operation than a man in a sandwich board, perhaps with a tinfoil hat accessory. The typos, the brief back catalog, the, um, single-mindedness all have led some in the blogosphere to question the site's legitimacy. No one knows for sure how this blogger came across the e-mails...