Word: suspicion
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...Jane Goodall, has something to say about this submissive behavior in primates and its desirable effects for social cohesion. Regardless, however, I wonder meekly how soon I might get a permit.But who am I to be asking Mama Gideon questions at all? She assumes the most physical manifestation of suspicion I have seen, and begins a lengthy interrogation. Where I’m from, what I’m studying, why I want to study it, and so on—she seems to disbelieve some of my answers for reasons I cannot grasp. She looks askance and solemnly declares...
...pardon my suspicion of religion, Mr. Obama. This dragon cannot be tamed...
...called Road Map to Peace proposed by the U.S. is a road map to an unknown destination, which intensifies the suspicion of those who are supposed to travel on it and makes each side reluctant to fulfill even its basic initial requirements: the Palestinians to dismantle the terrorist networks; the Israelis to stop construction of the settlements altogether. It follows from the foregoing that only an external intervention that is decisive and purposeful in its character can achieve a breakthrough to peace. That intervention can only come from the U.S. It has the power and some residual trust...
...results it released earlier, and name Calderón as winner. That would be legal, but might lack legitimacy in the eyes of much of the population, whose skepticism is fueled by a longstanding tradition of electoral fraud. Calderón would therefore take office under the shadow of suspicion, and might struggle to find the support necessary to govern effectively from a congress in which he lacks a majority. Also, Obrador's supporters have taken to the street in the hundreds of thousands, and appear in no mood to accept a defeat they insist was fraudulent...
...some circles, though, there's a feeling, as creepy as the tingle his films give his audience, that Shyamalan's exalted position is a little precarious. First, there's the suspicion that, as a storyteller, Shyamalan might be a one-trick pony. O.K., it's a great trick: the notion of dread congealing around some ordinary man, capped by a switcheroo that casts all that preceded it in a darker light. But the surprise ending can restrict an artist. (Ask O. Henry; ask Rod Serling.) If viewers of each new Shyamalan film get a twist, it feels predictable. If they...