Word: victimize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reveal what happens, except to say that by the end both stars are utterly humiliated, and that the final victim is...the viewer. I wouldn't necessarily put this film in the atrocity category of a lower-I.Q. torture exercise like Captivity. But if you consider what the exalted quartet of Branagh, Pinter, Caine and Law might have done with the project, and what they did to it, Sleuth has to be the worst prestige movie of the year...
...Granted, you can potentially come as a volunteer "victim," if you don't have a criminal record, and I can cover the press conferences at which officials will congratulate themselves on lessons learned. But while everyone else plays him- or herself in the simulation, the media and the public are only invited as props. That's a shame since - especially in the case of a dirty bomb - there are no more important players in a terrorism incident. "We need to train with the media so the media becomes part of the team. You gotta build trust and relationships with...
...course both parties engage in histrionics, but the Democrats’ recent performance is particularly egregious: They are smearing their opponents and playing the victim. Just as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is right in saying that “neither party holds a patent on patriotism,” he and his colleagues have shown that the Democrats don’t have a monopoly on ethics either...
...embargo, or closing Incirlik," says Birand. The real outcome of Wednesday's bill may be to strengthen a growing tide of ultra-nationalist isolationism in Turkey, fueled by public perceptions of being unwanted by Europe (it is seeking to join the E.U.) and ignored by the U.S. One recent victim was high-profile Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was shot to death by a teenager with links to nationalist groups. His son, Arat Dink, and publisher Serkis Seropyan were sentenced on Friday to one year in jail for "insulting Turkishness" by referring to the Armenian genocide. They will appeal...
...maybe she'll set up another charm offensive, to tell us how she lied because she was scared, how in a way she's a victim of track and field's sordid culture of steroids and suspicion. Like all her performances, I'm sure it will be a doozy, but I, for one, will be skipping that...