Word: wrath
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...want to recruit us, don’t give us the kind of pen we steal from Holiday Inn. You’re an investment firm. How good can you being at making money when your pen is a cheap piece of crapsmanship? You’ll face our wrath for eternity. (Unless you give us jobs...
...develop nuclear power—the hard-line president gave another highly distressing address. During a military parade, he told cheering crowds: “Those who decide to misuse our nation’s honor…should know that the flames of the nation’s wrath are very hot and destructive.” Amidst the parade, banners proclaimed “Israel should be wiped off the map” and “We will trample America under our feet.” These are not the words of the head of a nation...
...criticism because of its “shared values” with America (which happens to be the only country in the world to ever use nuclear weapons)? How about Pakistan and its infamous Abdul Qadeer Khan? Are they exempt from this writer’s wrath because they are allies in the U.S.’s Middle Eastern adventures? Anyone whose true concern is the existence of nuclear weapons cannot credibly fail to mention Israel, nor Pakistan...
...into a serious TV pundit, perhaps I had a knack for this thing after all and perhaps the derisive e-mailers were wrong about me. Maybe abusing innocent bloggers was the Internet-era equivalent of torturing small animals-a way for people who were seething anyway to vent their wrath without fear of retribution. I pondered the matter for a few minutes and decided to address it on the website, with special attention to the who?d accused me of being a racist right-wing gun-nut merely because I?d mentioned in a blog that I resided in Montana...
...This is fury, the vintage Rushdie kind, not the phony outrage at the shallowness of the Western world that sank Fury, but a wrath aimed in the opposite direction?at the medieval barbarism that lingers in our only half-modern world. Shalimar, weak and improbable whenever its action leaves Kashmir, is not of the caliber of Midnight's Children, but it does mark Rushdie's re-engagement with the themes of political injustice and religious bigotry?themes that have made him one of our most important living novelists. The good news for his fans is that, once again, Rushdie knows...