Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Perhaps that’s why the list I gave them, which included the first names I could think of—John Zorn, the Icarus Line, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Vertical Horizon, Clara Schumann, Ice Cube, Alice Deejay, Keith Hudson, the Police and then Sting, among others—never once got dismissed as being insincere even though it made no “sense” whatsoever. Comments ranged from “Some okay, even pretty good stuff, utterly ruined by gay” to “I really hope you’re a lesbian, for your...
...another era--say, four years ago--a lefty network might have saved a little of its sting for the center-right of the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton got nearly as much flak from the disaffiliated left as from the entrenched right. But Air America's hosts, who range from centrist-left (Franken) to Pacifica pink (morning-drive-time japer Marc Maron), are forthrightly partisan. In their zeal to defeat Bush, they seek out strategic allies rather than ideological ones. Thus Randi Rhodes, the hectoring, cocksure afternoon-drive-time host, cuddled up to the right-wing Patrick Buchanan--who opposed...
...into [a creative writing class], you just hope your friend doesn’t either,” he says. “If you know somebody on that list it may hit home a little harder.” Even do-gooders are subject to the sting of rejection. This past February, nearly 50 students applied to spend Spring Break rolling up their shirtsleeves rather than pulling out their bikinis. Instead of jetting off to exotic locales, applicants to the Alternative Spring Break (ASB) service trips hoped to spend their break performing meaningful community service. Although the mission statement...
ALBANY, N.Y.—The sting of this one won’t go away for awhile. Not a chance...
...maybe become their own O team: Soprano. The FBI loves this, because a mobster's ego is the most fragile weapon in his arsenal. Set it off in public, and it can explode. Indeed, the mythologizing of the Mob by Hollywood and HBO could almost be a giant sting operation...