Word: stingingly
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...improbable. First, Mr. Woodlock, a Democrat, cannot be rejected unless all Democratic Senators, both North and South, leagued with all Insurgents, vote against him. Second, there is likely to be another vacancy in the nine-chaired table, to which Mr. Coolidge will appoint a Southerner, thus removing the sting from their objections...
...govern us in politics. Some of us on this side of the Chamber have been abetting and urging sabotage and apparently expecting the admiration and applause of the American people for the brilliancy of the performance. The people have neither applauded nor approved. We have incurred along with the sting of defeat the more bitter sting of contempt...
...some years a gadfly, H. L. Mencken by name, editor of the American Mercury, has buzzed and stung at the flanks of U. S. journalists. But Gadfly Mencken does not sting solely to infuriate. Gadfly Mencken is an idealist. He stings, he maddens, he browbeats only that working newspaper men may be awakened to the shame of their "cowardice, stupidity and Philistinism." Idealist Mencken has magnificent ideals for U. S. journalism...
There was another who, unseen, stirred the glass and made the bubbles dance. That was Henry Miller, whose flawless direction flavored the whole with vigilance and sting...
Through this cloudy background of tragedy, there penetrate the necessary shafts of laughter. Yet the vigorous values of the play rest in the sting and glitter of its melodrama. As such, it is one of the finest plays that has developed from...