Word: taunt
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Although your intentions are laudable, you seem to taunt those individuals who are not stern believers in sexual austerity. The message appears to be that anyone who gets herpes certainly deserves it and that it is a damn good thing this epidemic came along to bring back the good old days...
...consider Foley's off-hand remark that part of an officer's preparation is coming to grips with "dropping a little napalm on a village where there might even be women and children." Later, in a rather superfluous confrontation with a bar-full of townies, the hero ignores the taunt of "warmonger" and breaks noses only when the locals actually threaten him and Paula...
With a self-satisfied sigh of relief, the government proclaims every day in the press that "normalization" has come. The government claims that it has arrested seven people in Warsaw who were involved with Radio Solidarity and shut down the clandestine station, but underground transmitters continue to taunt the authorities with short FM broadcasts. By some estimates, 1,700 underground publications appear regularly. More than 100 illegal books have been published in Warsaw alone...
...tear-gas launchers and riot gear patrol the streets of Bilbao in armored personnel carriers. The enemy: England's 20,000-strong youthful ragtag army of fans, feared throughout the Continent, loose in the land of cheap vino. They spilled from bar doorways and windows and gathered to taunt the restrained but ready Spanish police before England's match with France two weeks ago. England won, 3-1. One lad slurred: "These here cops are wankers. Our boys'll have 'em right on." But so far the Spanish authorities have kept the situation under control...
When that sentence was pronounced on the Dick Cavett show last winter, fireworks were expected. Mailer had never been known to ignore a taunt; he had devoted whole chapters to demolitions of competing writers. Instead, there was an uncharacteristic silence. Six months later, Mailer has provided an answer. But it, too, is atypical. For if, as the editor of his new book claims, Mailer was "the literary world's finest counterpuncher" since Hemingway, he no longer deserves the title or the hype. Pieces and Pontifications demonstrates that, despite a pugilistic stance, the author has deserted the ring for color...