Word: unspoken
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...Paul Hamann, who has made seven previous documentaries about Northern Ireland, defended his film as giving "a unique insight" into what is happening in Ulster. Both Campbell and McGuinness, said Hamann, live in constant fear of assassination. They are, he noted, "ostensibly nice people, but there was a 5% unspoken ruthlessness of personality, and when it showed, it was frightening." Each, he said, had his own justification for killing people and a fanaticism that defied rationality...
...Soviet representatives have been unexpectedly balky in preparing even the minor pacts that were expected to be approved in Geneva, such as agreements to open more consulates, increase scientific and cultural exchanges and resume direct airline flights between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Some White House ears detect an unspoken Kremlin message: no little deals without a big deal on arms...
...time in telling the traveling journalists that France was committed to nuclear testing despite the objections of Greenpeace, as well as those of New Zealand, Australia and other countries in the region. "My visit here is a sign of France's attachment to nuclear deterrence," he said. The unspoken message: France had not been cowed by the international indignation that followed last month's revelation of government involvement in the July 10 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace flagship, in Auckland, New Zealand. ICELAND Take That, You Brutes...
After all the evidence had been laid out, the verdict, though unspoken, was clear: artists and writers whose work bolstered fascist ideals undeniably bear some responsibility for the consequences of totalitarian rule—but those who turned a blind eye may have been equally guilty. As long as speculation continues, however, authors and readers must continually reassess the relationship between the political mind and the artistic imagination...
...therefore a third-generation survivor, an identity very different from that of my father, a second-generation survivor. For him the Holocaust was a perpetual presence, an unspoken mass that hung over his childhood. For me, it was some vague event that happened a long time ago, as superficial as those flags on my street’s lampposts...