Tanya Chen over at Buzzfeed pulled out many examples where the term "chink eyes" was used by non-Asian Tweeters as a misguided term of endearment ("Happy birffday to my fave chink eyes") or simply as a way to describe what happens to eyes when you squint or smile ("Chink eyes are my thing").
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And some Conservatives now see a chink in his armour.
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N.L." for, among other things, calling Yang a "Jew chink.
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This time there was a chink of light for the country.
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It really puts a chink in our armor of fire prevention.
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An international student was told, 'Take your ass back home, chink.
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"It's another chink in the armor of the ecosystem," Pramuk says.
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Guess it's better than 'eyes chink' like some other verses I've heard.
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For committed partisans, the ambassador's testimony left a chink of plausible deniability.
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Now they've got arguably a chink of the armor or two. Maker.
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There's a chink of light that actually existing science and technology lets through.
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It was Jews, in fact, who called me "chink" for the first time.
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I've been called chink and gook any number of times in my life.
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I had a neighbor yelling 'chink' and 'gook' and 'I fought a war to kill people like you,' and 'I'm disgusted to live next to people like you,' and having to ask my parents, 'What the hell is a chink?
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By definition, a chink is "a narrow opening or crack, typically one that admits light," and that's how Shakespeare used it in A Midsummer's Night's Dream, in which the fictional lovers Pyramus and Thisbe communicate through a chink in a wall.
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Or when a stranger from the Internet emailed me to call me a chink.
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Even if not fatal, a chink may have finally appeared in the Trumpian armour.
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" Matters escalated when Lushchinskaya then spit at a passenger, adding, "Fuck off, fucking chink.
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Maybe if I had never been called "chink" I would have felt white forever.
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Whereas I've been called a chink many times and even referred to as 'dirty.
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This is an issue that comes up occasionally with entries like GO O.K. (which we clued last April as "Proceed all right," but which as a solid word is a slur), CHINK (benign in the sense as a chink in one's armor), etc.
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News of the chink in Gilead's armor also reaches the "Little America" settlement in Canada.
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There's no word you can't call them; even the obvious slur, chink, generally goes unbleeped.
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It appears, however, that these metal mesh cages may have a chink in their armor.
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Not a chink of light reached the bedroom from the dim illuminations outside the window.
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In February, we may have seen the first chink in top British prospect Tom Breese's armor.
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Some of the book characters were called Token Charlie and Barry the Chink, a Caucasian character.
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Not with a bang but with a whimper came this next chink in weight-cutting's armor.
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"The chink in this armor is that they're civilians, and civilians are going to talk," said Nance.
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It sent notes home to parents referring to Chinese people as shinajin—the rough equivalent of "chink".
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When someone calls you a chink on the bus, you are primed to fail your job interview.
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The first chink in Raonic's armor came in the seventh game when Murray went 15-40 ahead.
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I've also never been called a chink to my face (at least, not that I can remember).
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"We're always looking for that chink in the armor and we haven't found it yet," Lydon said.
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The amateur's chink in my driving talent, I've learned, is a tendency to get stuck in the present.
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"The blue flower growing in a chink of a wall of ice" is just the ultimate evidence for me.
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In spite of Putin's boasts, lack of American resolve cannot be a chink in the armor of global nonproliferation.
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While the monthly figures may offer a chink of light for Brazilian industry, the bigger picture is less rosy.
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On Thursday, Andersen indicated there was a chink of light for the country, one of the super-powers of athletics.
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Mr Modi has made a first chink in this system by allowing for contract employment of a limited number of specialists.
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"This is a chink in the Teflon of Google and Facebook's shield of immunity," said Jamie Court, president of Consumer Watchdog.
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One chink out of it wants to take your rights away, they're never going to get them back, and blah, blah.
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He soon runs into the line of brothers, who call him ''chink,'' ''gook'' and whatever other racial slurs they can muster.
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While scientists say the new paper shows an alarming rate of increase in ocean temperatures, Simpson sees one chink of light.
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The best part of any storm is when you see the gray chink of the light of dawn and you think, Wow.
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Should we read the announced production cuts at GM as a chink in the armor of a steady, if unspectacular, economic recovery?
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But the situation shifted on July 31st with a High Court ruling that offered a chink of light to women in such circumstances.
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And though sexual discrimination lawsuits are often hard to win, the lawsuit is just another chink in the billion-dollar startup's virtual exterior.
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Plenty of people in my life have called me a chink, it's just that for a while nobody knew to use the word.
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A recent chink in the church-state wall may be seen in the hanging of "In God We Trust" placards inside government schools.
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Regardless of which side of the case you fall on, you have to admit that it created a chink in the government's armor.
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I'm like a villain—I turn all the lights off, they walk in, there's a tiny little chink of light in the room.
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The only chink in this theory's armor for now is whether the Night King himself is even showing up to the Battle of Winterfell.
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Getting thrown in a trashcan and being called a "chink" made it clear to Fulbeck how others saw him, coloring his impressions of himself.
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Besides acting as free promotion for CPY, it can also be a sign that CPY has managed to find another chink in Denuvo's armor.
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He believes she's showing up to keep tabs on him so she can see if there's a chink in the armor between him and Kendall.
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In 2012, an ESPN journalist was suspended for using the phrase "chink in the armor" in reference to Asian-American NBA point guard Jeremy Lin.
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In the movie, Stockard Channing, her every sentence dripping disdain even as the chink in her emotional armor kept growing wider, made the part iconic.
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Another former champion Chris Evert reckons Williams is still the favorite but says other players are seeing a chink in her armor as she gets older.
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" The "N-word," according to the Pilot, is used at least once, and a student from Thailand is referred to as being a "chink" and a "jap.
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Vassall was gay at a time when homosexuality was illegal in the UK. "The Russians ... found the chink in my armor before anyone else," he later explained.
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My dad had warned me against anti-Semitism and raised me to revere Orthodox Judaism, and here those same Jews had just called me a fucking chink.
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No, I was a "chink": A trope of an Asian man, a character I knew little about but had internalized, like many other Americans, as an emasculated nerd.
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We cannot overlook the significance of this act, because it reveals a fatal chink in the armor of the new feminist resistance movement: its radical position on abortion.
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The word "chink" originated as a slur used to generalize Asian people—despite the many, many different ethnicities, dialects, and cultures within the huge and diverse continent of Asia.
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The school's skating arena was also formerly known as the "Chink Rink," according to the the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, while its mascot was known as "Mr. Bamboo."
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"Every time we overrule a case, it's like a little chink in an armor," he said, adding that uncertainty makes it harder for lawyers to give good legal advice.
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I either go all the way filthy or I fall back and I have this sort of chink in my armor for the rest of time to a rap purist.
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Brazil's economy contracted in the first quarter of the year, and these services-sector figures offer a chink of light that it avoided the same fate in the second quarter.
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Once, shortly after I moved to California, I was playing paddleball in gym class when a girl on the opposing team accused me of cheating and called me a chink.
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And yet my behavior still strikes me as practical, the only way to ensure that, in life's arena, no chink in the armor will be exposed to another gladiator's spear.
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The wheeze of this "piano with braces" has become the sound people dread to hear in restaurants or at railway stations, accompanied by the hopeful chink of coins in a hat.
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Euro-clearing is the second shadow troubling this benign outlook with even the most Brussels loathing, EM pivoting City figures accepting that the issue remains a chink in London's Brexit armor.
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The discovery filled a long-known chink in the accepted explanation of how the chemistry of the universe evolved from pure hydrogen and helium into the diverse place it is today.
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My uncle went foraging for them, until locals started welcoming people like him with "chink" and "gook," waving guns, and making it clear that those wandering their woods should go home.
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" At night, Bradstreet entered the house, shut the door, and waited: At last I heard the Chink of Money, and a comfortable Voice say, "Puss, give me two Pennyworth of Gin.
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From the commander's hatch, Rowe looked out on a stretch of rolling farmland and thick pine forests that US military planners now consider the most vulnerable chink in the NATO alliance.
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"If we understand the biological mechanisms bed bugs use to beat insecticides, we may be able to spot a chink in their armor that we can exploit with new strategies," said Lilly.
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But, whereas Eddie Huang has written about being called a "chink" on his first day of middle school, Wu can't recall being treated differently, much less bullied, because of how she looked.
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In one episode of the podcast, Gillis referred to 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang as a "Jew chink" and he used the Chinese-American slur over and over again, reports Vice.
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With Viktor Orban, Hungary's authoritarian prime minister, she will commemorate the anniversary of a peace protest on the border between Hungary and Austria that helped chisel the first chink in the Iron Curtain.
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You call me 'White boy,' 'Cracker,' 'Honkey,' 'Whitey,' 'Caveman'... and that's OK..But when I call you, Ni**er, Coon, Towel head, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink .... you call me a racist.
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"When you have something that is going as well as everything that we have going, there's no reason to put a chink in the armor and start to tear it down," Harvick said.
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The only chink in its armor is a bit of busyness in the suspension when you get near and above 70 miles per hour, but that's mostly a factor of the shortened wheelbase.
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But as a potential chink in the armour of international sanctions for Kim, it opens a door to leverage and influence that Putin might not have seen as so important this time last year.
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And significantly, there was not a chink of daylight between Fitzgerald's position and those of her successor, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, or indeed the Irish commissioner in Brussels, Phil Hogan.
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Kyra Nguyen, a 20-year-old Vietnamese American from Los Angeles, has watched the ethnic slur "chink" ping-pong around Twitter, alongside suggestions to shoot US-bound planes from China out of the sky.
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When an intelligence agency or the F.B.I. wanted to make use of a major chink in a company's technological armor, it first had to get approval through a committee organized by the White House.
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"We know it's not transmitting in exactly the same way that influenza was, and that offers us a glimmer, a chink of light, that this virus can be suppressed and pushed and contained," he said.
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"We know it's not transmitting in exactly the same way that influenza was, and that offers us a glimmer, a chink of light, that this virus can be suppressed and pushed and contained," he said.
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But few of the 4,000 companies in Airbus's UK supply chain, many of which are small and medium-sized companies, have dedicated teams and sophisticated plans in place, a chink in the armour of big companies.
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But the spyware furor was just the latest chink in those apps' armor; their encoding doesn't help you if you don't set them to delete your messages, or if you back them up to a cloud.
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This themeless grid was constructed by a pair of master crafters, which might not resonate with you as you wrestle with getting a pencil-hold in any chink in the armor, as I did before you.
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So, after years of slowly opening myself up to having pride about my race and culture, hearing two boys call me a chink in the middle of a pizza place was a snap back to reality.
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It must be a quirk in our design, a barely visible chink in physiology that allows us to target inflammation in a manner that doesn't kill or maim but acts just so, disabling two terrifying illnesses.
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Some she called "non-encounterers"; they saw through a tight focus, a kind of chink hole, and they tended to stick to their to-do lists when searching for information rather than wandering off into the margins.
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Halep thought she had found a chink in the Stephens armor when the American served at 5-3 30-30 — a huge roar from the crowd erupting as she won a drop shot duel near the net.
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"It becomes the chink in the armor of the person who just a year before or 18 months before was the most popular figure in the country," recalled Jennifer Psaki, a veteran of Mr. Obama's White House.
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As I&aposve mentioned many times, both on this website and on my show, routers are the chink in your armor, and many hackers find their way into your computer by way of this particular piece of hardware.
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Wall Street futures offer a chink of light as they turned higher but commodities suffered too, with oil and metals all tumbling backwards as what had been one of their best starts to a year also soured rapidly.
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Her immigration case still colors every aspect of her life: The slightest false step could land her back in detention, and even the tiniest chink in the story she presents at hearings could lead to her petition being denied.
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On his website, Wilson said he made it through a "chink in the armor" of big-time magazine publishing when an editor laughed at his work but didn't realize it was "too much for the common man" to understand.
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"If we understand the biological mechanisms bed bugs use to beat insecticides, we may be able to spot a chink in their armour that we can exploit with new strategies," David Lilly, University of Sydney doctoral candidate, said in a statement.
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Kamkar's latest project shows another chink in the armor of our computers' security: In this case, it's about briefly tricking the computer into thinking that the entire internet resides on the $5 barebones computer it first met a few seconds earlier.
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There have been times when an inner chink of light has burst forth—such as when she nearly, but not quite, let a tear fall down her cheek prior to the 2008 New Hampshire primary—and the response from voters has been immediate.
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If there is one thing that's held me back in life, I want to suggest to Arty, if I have an Achilles' heel, if I have a chink in my armor, it's this inability to hold on to names and even, increasingly, faces.
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But lack of understanding about measles and the rise of anti-vaccination beliefs based on phony science and social-media fueled conspiracy theories has a put a chink in the armor of otherwise well-protected countries such as the United States and France.
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But to replicate his London Olympics triumph Murray will need to find a chink in the armor of Novak Djokovic, the proud Serb who has dominated men's tennis in recent years and now has his eye on the only major honor to elude him.
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Not necessarily a nice vulnerability, but a chink in the armor, some genuine human feeling — attractive or not — displayed in this episode; for example, when Roper loses his cool with Jed on the phone, speaking about the young boy that his money has been supporting.
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There's this notion that, 'I'm a fricking Amazon, I don't need help, I don't have problems, I'm never going to let you see a chink in the armor or weakness because while I was on active duty, if I showed weakness, I got run over.
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That leaves a chink in the armor of strongmen that can create an opening for defenders of liberal democracy, a system that protects individual rights and is based on rule of law, equality -- including for minorities -- a free press, free expression and fair elections, among other things.
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"The chink in the armor [for Republicans], such as it is, there is a conflict between these [blue-collar and rural] voters' views of the rich and powerful in general and their views of entitlement programs and the way Republicans really do approach policy," Teixeira says.
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"They'll want to be the ones to hand him a loss on his way out, and they see that there is a little bit of a chink in the armor at this point," said Michael Johnson, the former American sprint champion working here for the BBC.
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Unnamed sources told the New York Post that the whole thing was a "blackmail attempt," and the DA dropped the charges (just before receiving a sizable payout from Weinstein's lawyer, it was revealed today), but the publicity would prove to be a major chink in Weinstein's armor.
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The Group of 20 powers meeting in the German spa town of Baden-Baden reiterated their long-standing warnings against competitive devaluations and disorderly FX markets, allaying fears that the new U.S. administration might have opened up a chink in the G20's united front on global currency policy.
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SVB Leerink analyst Marc Goodman had said in a note ahead of the trial results that a late-stage trial failure would be a major disappointment to investors and a setback for the company as it would be the first "chink in the armor" in the Sage story.
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I've worked hard and been honest with her to let her know that that is such a part of my past that it's never going to come up again, and if that's going to be the chink in the armor that doesn't make this work, I'm going to be devastated.
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The Group of 20 powers meeting in the German spa town of Baden-Baden reiterated their long-standing warnings against competitive devaluations and disorderly foreign exchange (FX) markets, allaying fears that the new U.S. administration might have opened up a chink in the G-20's united front on global currency policy.
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Popcast When Mariah Carey suffered a performance meltdown on live television on New Year's Eve, it was, depending how you viewed it, either a colossal letdown by one of the great vocalists in modern pop, or one more chink in the armor of a performer who's been publicly struggling for the past few years.
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I was lucky to grow up in a predominantly Asian community, so the only time I've ever encountered "chink" has been in incidents like this: when I'm writing about it because someone somewhere thought it was a stupid, dumb joke, and one instance in which a commenter decided it was an appropriate term to call me.
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