You could just as easily be mean spirited and hateful.
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You could just as easily be mean spirited and hateful.
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"That Taylor posted Katy's letter wasn't mean-spirited," says the source.
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Kind of childish, not very "presidential", maybe mean spirited, immature ...whatever.
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But some is unnecessary and mean-spirited, Snyder Cut proponents said.
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What a cynical, mean-spirited, counterproductive and irresponsible step it is.
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And it's meant to be very mean-spirited, which is very biased.
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He was even booed by the audience for some mean spirited jokes.
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To suggest I felt anything but admiration is mean-spirited and false.
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Nobody feels nice listening to Rap music because its inherently mean-spirited.
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There's nothing uglier than someone's who is selfish, mean-spirited and mean.
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And this justifies the mean-spirited behavior on behalf of our government.
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With his "anchor" tweet, Trump once again flaunts his mean-spirited ignorance.
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Both Rosie and Ally think there was nothing mean spirited about it.
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It would be seen for what it is: a mean-spirited rant.
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If he were being flip, his comments were childish and mean-spirited.
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Go deeper: Tillerson's farewell: "This can be a very mean-spirited town"
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But Dunham's comments weren't mean-spirited, bigoted or harmful in any real way.
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Allowing free-reign with the voice of antifa, communists, and mean-spirited people.
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It is also mean-spirited toward families in Mexico who depend on remittances.
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He is a mean-spirited bully who will be remembered for his vitriol.
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Impeachment -- I mean, that&aposs so -- it&aposs so petty and mean- spirited.
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They're often mean spirited, and they target anyone in the Trump inner circle.
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Their banter was cutting, but never mean-spirited (Spock was incapable of mean).
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Or the uncomfortable laughter that follows a mean-spirited or off-color joke.
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By comparison, the early UFC was mean-spirited, low-rent, and often boring.
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Preacher stages these kinds of nasty setpieces with a joyfully mean-spirited inventiveness.
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Democrats with roots in working-class America portrayed Trump as dishonest and mean-spirited.
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Despite being a stereotype in so many ways, Elle isn't catty or mean spirited.
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Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation called the station's decision censorship and mean-spirited.
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"I don't think he meant to hurt anybody or be mean-spirited," she says.
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Still, it'll take more than some mean-spirited comments to take this family down.
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"We can be strong without being cruel; tough without being mean spirited," Schwarzenegger said.
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The decision to end TPS for Hondurans is mean-spirited, shortsighted and wholly unnecessary.
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No matter how rough, or hard, or obnoxious I was, it wasn't mean-spirited.
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Back then, the show was less mean-spirited and more goofy, immature, and schizophrenic.
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According to Torres, it reflects the "mean-spirited" immigration policies of the Trump administration.
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Because I'm not mean-spirited, and I don't think I make fun of political correctness.
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"It's a mean-spirited bill, and I'm so glad that it has not passed," Rep.
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Their political careers and each of their states will suffer from their mean-spirited stupidity.
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December, 2014: Apple deletes "After School," a "mean spirited" messaging app for high school students.
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In other words, going from constructive criticism to mean-spirited can be a slippery slope.
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And I am not racist, and there is not mean-spirited intent in my observation.
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His humor is rarely mean-spirited, but a few of his jokes hint at menace.
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It's funny and mean-spirited and hockey needs to add this to its official statistics.
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Smith's nasty tirade against a couple of kids is inappropriate, and just plain mean-spirited.
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While not a particularly mean spirited ghost, the story of Samuel Chew is still disconcerting.
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Serena is a legend and I think your comment is passive aggressive and mean spirited.
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It started as a food fight and degenerated into mean-spirited attacks and little substance.
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Flynn, similarly, hasn't said as much as a mean-spirited word about Trump in public.
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Critics said "Christmas With the Kranks" (2004) was too mean-spirited for its own good.
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Predictably, open borders proponents have attacked these proposals as mean-spirited, nativist and even racist.
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I know that incarceration sounds mean-spirited, but it&aposs not supposed to be a reward.
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Mean-spirited teenagers see the same thing and wonder how they can make more of them.
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This isn't a mean-spirited compilation of "gotcha" moments, mid-sentence snaps or candid tabloid shots.
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Can it do that while actually saying something and not crossing the boundary into mean-spirited?
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Another thought along those lines: There's a difference between an homage and a mean-spirited caricature.
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" Kristol fired back on Wednesday that Breitbart should be renamed "right-wing intolerant mean-spirited news.
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It is reckless, mean-spirited, un-American, unconstitutional, unnecessary and misdirected all at the same time.
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"The movie confuses iconoclasm with wit, and bile with guts; it's mostly thin and mean-spirited."
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You don't have to be mean-spirited to be successful, says legendary Kiss musician Gene Simmons.
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"Unlikely homecoming court members" is not only mean spirited, but it's also patently untrue these days.
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"What a cynical, mean-spirited, counterproductive and irresponsible step," said Doug Collins, the panel's top Republican.
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Prior Presidents have been cruel or mean-spirited, bigoted or shortsighted, and sometimes exercised terrible judgment.
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" In a recent interview with Vogue, Wilmore said his jokes will be edgy but not "mean-spirited.
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At the mean-spirited behest of Constance—have I yet mentioned how much I love Jessica Lange?
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Some have called the move "mean spirited" given Kardashian's presence in the White House as an advocate.
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We're told she's also upset Kanye made the song sound lighthearted, when in fact it's mean-spirited.
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ZeroCater by contrast appears lean (if not mean-spirited) with just under $6 million raised to-date.
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Nothing will get in our way; not mean-spirited bosses, trash-talking roommates, or the damn MTA.
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This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions.
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"This can be a very mean-spirited town," Tillerson said to a round of laughs and applause.
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Let's drop the ugly, mean-spirited sentiments and memes that many of us perpetuate on social media.
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President Trump, in his order to strip honors from these lawyers, was petty, mean-spirited and small.
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Let's just get this out of the way: Milo Yiannopoulos is a tedious, nihilistic, mean-spirited opportunist.
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"It seems a little mean-spirited," said Kate Andersen Brower, of the criticism of Ms. Trump's decorations.
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But it's important for me to say that I had no mean spirited intentions behind my tweets.
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I mean, I like Alec, but his imitation of me is really mean-spirited and not very good.
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It speaks volumes that Trump's mean-spirited refugee ban has led to such disorder at home and abroad.
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Senate President John Cullerton, a Chicago Democrat, said the Republicans' "mean-spirited" plan is not going to happen.
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And here's the real atrocity in all of this: It wasn't even funny … It was just mean-spirited.
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" His birtherism, she says, "was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed.
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On Sunday, at a protest in Manhattan, he choked up describing Trump's "mean-spirited and un-American" actions.
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Oceana is one of the few places on our mean spirited planet where you can unabashedly be yourself.
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How do you prove who doesn't work hard, or isn't cooperative with co-workers, or is mean-spirited?
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It's racist, it's classist, it's mean-spirited, it's speculative, everything is taken in bad faith, it's just vile.
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In addition to the discussions over policy, the debate became mean spirited and even unnecessarily personal at times.
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Voters find themselves in the middle of a mean-spirited, scorched-earth campaign between two candidates they don't like.
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I was called Rasputia and Big Shirley and Big Sesali by mean-spirited peers in middle and high school.
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Our sources say Melania has been indignant at Rosie for doing what she believes was a mean-spirited act.
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Rather, Burton calls our attention to how much we enjoy these mean-spirited spectacles of apparently bloodless mass murder.
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Although it may sound a little mean-spirited, it also sounds super fun — and like it might actually work.
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Which is key: At no point did Bee's relentless assault feel cheap, or tired, or even particularly mean-spirited.
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"It's mean-spirited, it's petty, and it's gone on for much too long," he said of the political climate.
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Smith-Schuster has also cultivated a goofball persona, so you know it's not mean spirited, he's just trolling folks.
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I don't believe the propaganda about cats being mean-spirited, or creating hellish living environments for easily-manipulated humans.
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"This can be a very mean spirited town," Tillerson said, as staff present at his remarks laughed and clapped.
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"Most of us can understand, at a base level, if we have been mean-spirited or disrespectful," says Rubin.
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But if you try to give cash to people who aren't working, then people become mean-spirited and stingy.
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Fox News's Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityTrump criticizes Fox, which 'isn't working for us anymore' Hannity rips Maher's Koch comments: 'You're a mean-spirited jackass' ABC chose a debate moderator who hates Trump MORE called HBO host Bill MaherWilliam (Bill) MaherHannity rips Maher's Koch comments: 'You're a mean-spirited jackass' Economic expansions don't die of old age Bill Maher says he's 'glad' David Koch is dead MORE "a mean-spirited jackass" Monday night after Maher said he's "glad" billionaire conservative donor David Koch is dead.
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Even left-leaning fans took note that the entire campaign seemed like a mean-spirited gesture on Oliver&aposs part.
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Obama's administration has called that law mean-spirited, and the Justice Department filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state.
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The gifs, memes and retweets flowed and were coupled with the mean-spirited commentary that dominates our civic discourse today.
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So it feels mean-spirited to point out that Mr Musk appears to have driven himself into a tight spot.
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It will come as no surprise that mean-spirited comments tend to impact the honesty, tone, and expenditures of submissions.
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It's possible to slip into cruelty when making a punchline of real people, but the humor doesn't feel mean-spirited.
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She called Trump's birther movement "crazy and mean-spirited" with "underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed," according to ABC News.
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" And following Mitt Romney's 2012 defeat, Trump called Romney's position on self-deportation for undocumented immigrants "maniacal" and "mean-spirited.
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Short-sighted and mean-spirited laws that are being proposed in all sorts of cities and states around the country.
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One was over a mean-spirited scheme to avoid paying tax on a Chicago mansion by ripping out its toilets.
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Trump criticized Baldwin's impersonation of him before Inauguration Day, calling it "really mean-spirited and not very good" last December.
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Said Islamophobia is not just offensive — it's also kind of weird, because it doesn't seem to be particularly mean-spirited.
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N. A meme that mocks someone's shoes might seem to be more mean-spirited than other memes of the decade.
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It seems mean spirited to bag on someone's big day, but let's face it – weddings can be kind of annoying.
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We killed it in the highway bill and the Republican House will not give up on their mean-spirited provision.
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However, in the meantime, some more mean-spirited users have taken to using the Telugu symbol to "bomb" other peoples devices.
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Despite the Administration's changes, this dangerous executive order makes us less safe, not more, it is mean-spirited, and un-American.
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She also called Trump's birther movement "crazy and mean-spirited" with "underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed," according to ABC News.
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She insulted a broad swath of the electorate, and gave her opponents an opening to play victim of mean-spirited attacks.
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Mr Ryan spent years telling rank-and-file conservatives that their dislike of government welfare was not mean-spirited but kindly.
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Jamie Otis is calling out a body shamer who left a mean-spirited comment on one of her social media posts.
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Like so much else, Cohen's show won't change any hearts and minds, and more than most, it can appear mean-spirited.
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It was so mean-spirited, so glaringly intentional, that the authorities could not help but to sit up and take notice.
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Naturally, some fans argued that it was mean-spirited to be this pedantic about a show with so many moving parts.
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So ugly, in fact, that years later state lawmakers called it the "most mean-spirited and un-American" measure in California history.
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We can choose actions and words that are mean-spirited, evil and cruelly tear people down, trying to humiliate and destroy them.
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This is far from Banks' first time engaging in mean-spirited Twitter or Instagram takedowns, and it surely won't be her last.
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He and the other characters often come across as straight men wandering haplessly through a series of mean-spirited Monty Python gags.
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In a universe of reality shows built on mean-spirited competition and petty griefs, the Bee showcases a heartening ethos of support.
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Luann confirmed their romantic past on Wednesday though, suggesting that Morgan's jealousy of their upcoming marriage was driving her mean-spirited rumors.
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Jupiter's Legacy takes place in a world where a new breed of superheroes take over, and they're cruel, mean-spirited, and vain.
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" Rose later wrote, "I've always stood up for the people I love and against things I think are cheap or mean spirited.
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"The whole thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed," the former first lady writes.
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Donald Trump pretended to send well wishes to people who oppose him ... but let's be honest, it was aggressive and mean-spirited.
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The body rejected the amendment on a 209-214 largely party-line vote, with Democrats calling it ignorant, mean-spirited and denigrating.
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A mean-spirited, wealthy young mother, she thinks that her maid has stolen her ring, which is actually inside the missing glove.
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Outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Washington a "very mean-spirited town" in his goodbye address to State Department staff Thursday.
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While Clinton thought it was "perfect," Trump called the impression "mean-spirited" and got into a short Twitter feud with Baldwin in December.
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It started with the rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and intensified while watching the vicious, mean-spirited, and often embarrassing 2016 election season.
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I hope it helped me when I talk about it, so I'm not coming across as mean-spirited or that I lack understanding.
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At times it feels like too much — almost mean-spirited, but at the least a serious distraction from what's interesting about the film.
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"This titan of Wall Street is utterly incapable of making a decision unless it is mean-spirited and benefiting him alone," McDevitt said.
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I've had multiple fake accounts on Facebook target me and my friends, sharing images I've posted with alternate captions and mean-spirited comments.
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MacGregor is best known as playing the wealthy, haughty, mean-spirited Harriet on the popular TV series that aired from 1974 to 143.
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New GOP health care bill is just a skeletal, slapdash, mean-spirited version of the ACA that would slash insurance coverage, spike costs.
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"It seems there is no end to China's mean-spirited bullying of South Korea," an editorial in The Korea Herald said on February 12.
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" Although Pisano chose to stop engaging with Wyckoff and aggressive comments that "felt mean spirited," she's open to an "overall dick run community event.
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Vox Lux is a mess of a film, a mean-spirited, largely unpleasant, and deliberately uncomfortable look at the makings of a pop star.
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"To say that I'm kind of a supporter of the N.R.A. is really a mean-spirited and unfair and inaccurate statement," Mr. Sanders said.
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But he said a "real aggressive, mean-spirited trade war is so bad" that both parties will do what they can to avoid it.
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"The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed," she writes, according to the Post.
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But to see so many people rooting for the winner... there's something shallow and mean-spirited about what that quest for celebrity brings out.
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One day in the fall of 1937, after fighting with his boss, a mean-spirited man named Andrei Bubnov, Volin had a heart attack.
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Outraged Democrats called it ignorant, mean-spirited and denigrating, while Republicans argued the Pentagon should not be spending its money on such medical care.
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They're so bad, in fact, that the people of Twitter quickly took the mean-spirited and bombastic U.S. president to task for his words.
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People confused him with his intensely mean-spirited character, who was known for charging into the audience swinging a metal chain to hit fans.
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It just seemed really mean-spirited and against the spirit of generosity that most artists who make and share their work are driven by.
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"So to say that I'm kind of a supporter of the NRA is really a mean-spirited and unfair and inaccurate statement," Sanders added.
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She told me that "Point Taken" is meant to be "counter-programming" to the mean-spirited and gridlocked political conversations you find everywhere else.
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I like Alec, but his imitation of me is really mean-spirited and not very good ... It's very biased and I don't like it.
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" Clinton also spoke about the GOP field, including Donald trump, whom she called "destructive," and Ted Cruz, whom she called a "mean-spirited guy.
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During a panel for Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life, the actress said she is "baffled" by viewers' affection for the mean-spirited millionaire.
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" Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York teared up at a Sunday news conference as he called the ban "mean-spirited and un-American.
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" In her memoir last year, former First Lady Michelle Obama said Trump's birtherism was "crazy and mean-spirited … its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed.
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A Trump tweet reminding people about the mistaken conclusion that Saddam Hussein's Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction was seen as a mean-spirited swipe.
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Donald Trump started off his Saturday morning with a mean-spirited and racist attack on Congressman Elijah Cummings and the West Baltimore district he represents.
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Freya Shepherd, who was passing by, spotted the suspected Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) and was shocked that a traffic warden could be so mean-spirited.
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Carrie Duncan, a meteorologist at local South Mississippi channel WLOX, is hitting back at a viewer who sent her a mean-spirited, body-shaming email.
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Working as a server can be a lot of fun, but it only takes one mean-spirited customer to derail an otherwise perfectly smooth shift.
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This is why the 2 notes from Megan Kelly to O'Reilly mean nothing & are a clueless, low & mean-spirited defense by O'Reilly's team. Shame. pic.twitter.
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" Obama wrote in her book that the so-called "birther" movement was "crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed.
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So hiring that jerk increases the risk that you will be knee-deep in mean-spirited colleagues, and that you will become a jerk, too.
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If anything, he believes that the mean spirited and callous nature of the material was designed to keep viewers engaged, even after they've finished watching.
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When Castro asked Biden "are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?" it came across as over the top and a bit mean-spirited.
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Thus, the closer these efforts by the House Democrats get to the next election, the more they will be characterized as mean-spirited and unjustified.
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Washington (CNN)Outgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Washington a "very mean-spirited town" in his goodbye address to State Department staff on Thursday.
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Foreign service officers and civil servants burst into laughter and applause, with many nodding, after Tillerson observed that Washington can be a mean-spirited place.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump emerged vindictive and angry at a rambling, mostly mean-spirited noontime event on Thursday meant to mark his impeachment acquittal.
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It just seemed mean-spirited to come down on a guy within 48 hours of his scheduled retirement," King said on CBS's "Face The Nation.
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" House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a separate statement that the administration is engaged in a "mean-spirited and malicious campaign against LGBT Americans.
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But Castro had actually, earlier in the debate, gone after Biden on age in a kind of mean-spirited and, on the specifics, unfair way.
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He became known offstage to some as "an egomaniacal, completely narcissistic, narrow-minded, arrogant, mean-spirited, temperamental, socially antiquated boor," according to critic Michael Posner.
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He brought a light touch to his satire -- acknowledging partisan division and poking at Trump without seeming mean-spirited -- and an overall silliness to the proceedings.
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In December of last year, a high school in Connecticut banned phones after "mean spirited behavior" via texting and social media, according to the Associated Press.
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Based on the success of that system, the team wanted to see if it could tackle an even stickier issue: mean-spirited, hateful and harassing comments.
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"Your app includes content that could be considered defamatory or mean-spirited," Apple's App Store Review team said in an email posted on Medium by Gab.
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I think if it's a mean spirited joke, it's hard for the audience to get on board with it or feel okay with laughing with you.
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"Make no mistake, the effect and the intent of this unjust and mean-spirited amendment is to ban patriotic Americans from serving our country," Pelosi said.
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Miller decried the media for being "just all clickbait, anger, mean-spirited stuff," and said that he gets good feedback from audiences after his comedy shows.
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A bad Dreher post can be mean-spirited and overwrought, but when he's at his best his posts are unique: deeply confessional, achingly sincere, intellectually searching.
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" Adams's campaign in turn called Jefferson "a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.
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"It's unfortunate that mean-spirited antagonists have attempted to draw attention away from this event by mischaracterizing the beliefs and positions of our organization," Daly said.
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Harris persisted with the confrontation but the overall effect was to diminish herself rather than Warren, with the California senator seeming mean-spirited and somewhat petty.
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Such massive tax cuts, especially when coupled with cuts to essential programs, are mean-spirited, short-sighted and will not improve the lives of most Americans.
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Screenshot: CBS17"I knew it was a scam because I had Happy, but it was heartless and cold and it was so mean-spirited," Howell told CBS17.
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"The administration's mean-spiritedness towards art and entertainment is an expression of their mean-spirited attitude about people who want that art and entertainment," De Niro said.
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Abuse intensified in the run up to the 2016 US election, which saw President-elect Donald Trump wield Twitter in vicious, mean-spirited, and sometimes dangerous ways.
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"Vinegar Valentines," mean-spirited cards often with crude sketches and teasing texts, started appearing in America and Britain in the 1840s and grew into their own business.
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The mean-spirited nature of Shedd's comment struck a chord with everyone from Chance The Rapper to another woman in media, The View co-host, Meghan McCain.
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Ironically, in helping elect Trump, Milo and those like him made themselves obsolete: America now faces greater problems than the mean-spirited shitposts of a preening hack.
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The song, a shockingly mean-spirited "takedown" of people who use the internet, features Alexander as a stereotypical nerd living in the basement of his parents' house.
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Sure, modern hijinks are fairly tame compared to the potentially fatal and mean-spirited 'jokes' of yesteryear—but this is one tradition that could do without branding.
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That might sound sort of mean-spirited of me, so let me now discuss my favorite aspect of the Range Rover HSE P400e I tested — the drivetrain!
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But let's be real, I call him G. He's not a mean-spirited punk, but he pushes my buttons and drives me to the brink of insanity.
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An accurate way to describe him to a layperson would be as a shoddy facsimile of Trump: mean-spirited, racist, ill-informed, pathologically dishonest, and generally clownlike.
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He must be assertive enough to put concerns about his vigor to rest but not so aggressive as to seem mean-spirited or condescending to fellow Democrats.
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Self-esteem took over reality TV this decade, edging out more mean-spirited selections in favor of kind and caring content in which viewers could see themselves.
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The amendment outraged Democrats, who called it ignorant, mean-spirited and denigrating, while Republicans argued the Pentagon should not be spending its money on such medical care.
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The effects of the Trump administration's mean-spirited policies toward immigrants -- with the public threat of more -- is already being felt in immigrant communities around the nation.
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" GLAAD, the media advocacy group for LGBTQ people, said APT's decision was an "attack to censor content" and not only "mean-spirited," but also "it's a losing battle.
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I can think of only two occasions in my entire life where I was made to feel self-conscious about my weight, and neither was particularly mean-spirited.
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"To not recognize that [giving birth] should warrant an exception, be it for Williams or any new mother, is both outdated and mean-spirited," author Nancy Armour wrote.
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It may be for attention, it may be because people know they can get away with it, or it may be because the hater is just mean-spirited.
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However bad the world is, it still doesn't deserve this mean-spirited "gritty" DC Comics reboot, every frame of which practically pants with nostalgia for the Bush administration.
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"The administration's mean-spiritedness towards our art and entertainment is an expression of their mean-spirited attitude about people who want that art and entertainment," De Niro added.
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The spectacle of real characters played by Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks standing up to a craven, mean-spirited president should resonate with many viewers of all ages.
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For the transgender community, which faces shockingly high rates of discrimination, these laws provide concrete protections if they ever face a mean-spirited employer, landlord, or business owner.
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Republicans were "so eager … to be mean-spirited" on the anniversary of ObamaCare's passage that they didn't consider the possibility that they wouldn't have the votes they need.
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The thing about Red Dwarf that made me feel visible and seen was that its characters were funny and clever and not mean-spirited but also immensely annoying.
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Even an innocuous question like "What do you think of me?" can lead to mean-spirited comments if responders don't have their names, and therefore any accountability, attached.
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Or maybe month after month of vindictive and mean-spirited campaigning struck a chord with voters who live their lives in the nation's longest running reality show "Cops".
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And then, last month, in a stunningly mean-spirited move, Pai—who opposed the Lifeline expansion in the first place—reversed course and blocked those companies from participating.
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However, it's difficult for Woods and her family to do that when they're still being plagued by reminders, like the slew of mean-spirited merch being sold by strangers.
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In a letter obtained and shared by The Hollywood Reporter, Ariadne Getty's lawyer Martin Singer claims the series is "a cruel and mean-spirited defamatory depiction" of the family.
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They certainly weren't all mean-spirited or blatantly hateful — but they echoed very real problems with gender, race, class, and sexuality that exist every day outside the Olympic Village.
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The erratic and mean-spirited reactivity and cavalier disregard of basic facts that we have seen throughout the year have come into even sharper relief these past few days.
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Then, we proceeded to carve out lives in a world that perpetuates body-policing of all kinds and lost sight of the fact that mean-spirited comments have repercussions.
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That's the section where Apple says: Any App that is defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited, or likely to place the targeted individual or group in harm's way will be rejected.
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When Schumer teared up at a press conference denouncing Trump's ban on travel from a handful of majority-Muslim countries, calling the measure "mean-spirited," Trump openly mocked him.
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McCain is also to be saluted for casting the deciding vote against a mean-spirited repeal of the Affordable Care Act that would have left millions without health insurance.
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Booker was targeting Joe Biden as much as anyone else, yet his attacks were launched through a bright demeanor that never came close to getting mean-spirited or personal.
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The tone for the start of the Trump Administration was set not by his mean-spirited, white nationalist Inaugural Address, but by the uplifting message of millions of marchers.
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And no matter how awful, nasty and mean spirited those words are, they may well not be enough for an appellate court to uphold a potential conviction after trial.
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"This is a mean-spirited issue of this administration that is directing their employees to act a certain way, a racist way, a way that is inhumane," said Torres.
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Yet there was none of the outwardly tense body language, icy stairs, public lectures or mean-spirited backgrounders to the press that have marked their previous encounters on this issue.
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It wasn't that they were stubborn, or lacked imagination; it's that the arguments against sending a friendly note were so unpersuasive as to be definitively boring, or downright mean-spirited.
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It is not a good sign for the future that an ill-advised, unwise statement from Lewis would stimulate such an ill-tempered, mean-spirited response from President-elect Trump.
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If he did, he would recognize that the damage caused by his hurtful and mean-spirited comments could not be walked back over during a few hours of public testimony.
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The same, of course, can be claimed for most issues of substance that now stand in limbo due the descent of our parties into the basements of mean-spirited confrontation.
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Obama on Trump's efforts trying to doubt the president is a US citizen: The whole thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed.
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After being tapped as Mitt Romney's running mate in 2012 and losing, Ryan decided that his fake budget plan had landed him with a reputation as being too mean-spirited.
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" Matt Thorn, executive director of OutServe-SLDN, added: "This amendment is a mean-spirited, unconstitutional attempt to impede the recruitment of openly transgender individuals who want to serve their country.
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I have seen time and again throughout my career media organizations dismiss consumer boycotts from conservatives as "mean spirited," but insurrections from, say, environmentalists and LGBT rights activists as fair game.
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The piece was lambasted by social media users, who believe the youngest Trump has a right to dress like the pre-teen he is, and that the article was mean-spirited.
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The 2015 Playmate of the Year sent the bunnies an apology for her "thoughtless and mean-spirited" Snapchat post that cost her a radio gig and her LA Fitness gym membership.
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Afterward, while commentators debated whether the performance was too mean-spirited, Trump said Wolf "bombed" and set her up as a symbol of Hollywood elitism, someone for his base to oppose.
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On Wednesday, Gibson, 38, shared photos on Instagram saying he just wanted to co-parent his daughter, adding that his ex, Norma Mitchell Gibson, was "being bitter, resentful" and mean-spirited.
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" She said that there has been "a concerted effort" of perpetuating what she dubbed the "Hillary standard," explaining the term as "unfounded, inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks with no basis in truth.
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While that insult could be seen as mean-spirited when directed at such a young kid, it turns unbelievably sweet when Vicky assures Julian that he is in fact her favorite.
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It wasn't like some comics where they poke fun at a genre but they don't really love that genre, so there's kind of a mean-spirited, off-putting angle to it.
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"I have nothing against you it was the car and the colors I didn't like I really hope you didn't think it was malicious or mean spirited," Bieber tweeted to Siwa.
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It's a mean-spirited way to live your life, and recent events online (of course) have shown that mean-spiritedness runs through a certain sect of Rick and Morty fans' veins.
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The transformation of Trump sycophants — the latest being the "Mooch" — into critics who charge he's a mean-spirited, evil, corrupt racist probably says more about them than it does the president.
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Suzanne Malyon, the head of the "Stop Anish Kapoor stealing our light and colour!" campaign, accused the artist of being "mean-spirited" following the approval of his studio extension by Southwark Council.
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Thousands of its bikes have been thrown in piles, found in rivers or locked up behind fences; some by mean-spirited vandals, others by people meaning to hog the bikes for themselves.
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With aide from Jimmy Kimmel, Harrison replaced his typical line – "Gentleman I'm sorry, if you did not receive your rose, take a moment, say your goodbyes" – with some more mean-spirited quips.
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This is all the sorry result of cynical attempts to exploit the immigration issue: the Trump administration and Attorney General Sessions seem at best deeply misguided and at worst profoundly mean-spirited.
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Some of the newer sort of "hipster comedy" stuff can be a little mean-spirited, whereas I try to put an awareness of my own shortcomings and privilege into all my characters.
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Will these same political leaders renounce the mean-spirited, race-driven and socially violent policy agenda of white supremacy that precipitated and emboldened the actions and attitude of white supremacists and nationalists?
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In an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, Gianfranco De Girolamo described several policies and incidents that he characterized as a "mean-spirited and unscrupulous campaign" against immigration judges by Trump.
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And when you discover that the people don't buy what you're selling, you don't get anywhere by complaining about how stupid or mean-spirited or bigoted they are (especially when they're not).
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Klobuchar faced a rash of negative headlines after former aides accused her of being a mean-spirited boss — something her defenders said would not have been an issue with a male boss.
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" And Karina Kaboom starts her videos off stating that her videos are "opinion videos these are not facts" and "please don't send any brands or people I mention any mean-spirited comments.
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This unconstitutional and mean-spirited bill prevents trans girls from finding community and self-esteem in sports and will certainly result in litigation to defend the civil rights of Idaho's transgender community.
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Then-majority leader Dick Salsaw called the proposal "the most mean-spirited piece of legislation I have seen in my 30 years down here," as The Washington Post reported at the time.
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"At the time he was arrested, Jefferson County was segregated, prejudiced and mean-spirited because of the evident racial and economic disparities that still linger to this very day," Scales told CNN.
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"Make no mistake, the effect and the intent of this unjust and mean-spirited amendment is to ban patriotic Americans from serving our country," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said.
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It is true that Trump's successful presidential campaign was centered on the mean-spirited idea that all undocumented immigrants "have to go," and he is now poised to make good on that promise.
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Singer called it a "cruel, mean-spirited, and defamatory" depiction in a letter to FX. Ariadne's son, August Getty, echoed his mother's statement, calling the projects "demonizing" in the New York Times piece.
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Maisel does keep returning to its title character's nascent stand-up career, which seesaws between surging (thanks to Midge Maisel's knack for winning over audiences) and souring (thanks to resentful, mean-spirited men).
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After six of Lama's Herculean grunts, Haase let out with one of his own, which apparently fell a little too close to mean-spirited imitation for the judge, who docked him a point.
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"We need to get rid of this mean-spirited and outdated system and trust that if the need should arise, Americans -- both male and female -- will answer the call to defend our nation."
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" Gervais' awards-host humor in previous years has been problematic, because it's so often narrow and cheap, or as Robert Downey Jr. called it in 2011, "hugely mean-spirited, with mildly sinister undertones.
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Michael Medved: Worst of all, Trump's brawling, blustery, mean-spirited public persona serves to associate conservatives with all the negative stereotypes that liberals have for decades attached to their opponents on the right.
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"This can be a very mean-spirited town," Mr. Tillerson said, a remark that generated a rare burst of applause from employees in a department that never embraced his distant and disorganized leadership.
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The perception that electing Trump as president would decrease the cultural clout of "politically correct" norms and increase the social acceptance of mean-spirited behavior and hate speech is at least highly plausible.
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The main rap on Gervais was that some of the material sounded "mean-spirited," as Robert Downey Jr. described it after his introduction -- which cited the actor's history of substance abuse -- in 2011.
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We need to get rid of this mean-spirited and outdated system and trust that if the need should arise Americans — both male and female — will answer the call to defend our nation.
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While it's certainly better than mean-spirited pranks like tricking people to eat doughnuts filled with mayo instead of cream, it's a reminder of a truth all too often ignored: Pranks are bad.
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The European central bankers are correctly ignoring these mean-spirited and misguided German attempts to undermine whatever is left of the common market, which gave Germany last year 45 percent of its trade surplus.
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Supporters of the statute, known as House Bill 2 (HB 2), have cited traditional values and a need for public safety, while opponents called it mean-spirited, unnecessary and a violation of civil liberties.
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It's a little mean-spirited, but it's also hilarious, in the vein of Courtney Yates mocking Coach's hair feathers, Abi-Maria calling Joe Anglim a moldy clown, and Rob Cesternino's infamous Casey Kasem dedication.
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"But the real reason to oppose this bill is that it is unnecessary, discriminatory and as mean-spirited as several other actions that have been proposed by this Legislature," Burke said in a statement.
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"Anyone who wants to engage in bullying or mean-spirited behavior knows how to do it so no one catches them," said Paddyfote, who declined to comment specifically on Ally's case, citing district policy.
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Even if the situation wasn't nearly as mean-spirited or dramatic as originally reported, hey, it was certainly a kind gesture for The View host to offer to keep Tiffany company at future shows.
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Trump -- who once again skipped the event in favor of a rally -- and conservatives say it was a mean-spirited, filthy "embarrassment" that once again proves the coastal elites just don't get flyover country.
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But reckless and mean-spirited attacks -- which are part of their ongoing vendetta against sugarcane farmers -- misdirect the focus away from any meaningful discussion of the facts that will lead us to real solutions.
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It's no surprise, then, that he has developed rabid fans in some darker corners of the web, in communities like 4Chan and 8Chan that are famous hubs for organizing massive, mean-spirited online pranks.
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When you add up the energy of Democratic voters, with the concern among suburbanites for the limbo Dreamers face and the mean-spirited rhetoric the White House continues pushing, a perfect storm is brewing.
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Campbell, this is an incredibly ill-informed and mean-spirited comment about one of the most respected painting conservators in the world, one who incidentally spent many years diligently working at your former institution.
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It can feel mean-spirited: We so often use fiction as a means of escape from the real world, and how dare we take that escape away from people who need it by politicizing it?
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Donald Trump is an incurious, ignorant, mean-spirited, impulsive person, whose blithe, ugly embrace of sexist and racist rhetoric has established a new, adventurous attitude among those who share his troglodytic views on human groups.
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But after a lifetime of enduring racism from both mean-spirited and well-intentioned people (yes, you can be racist even if you "mean well"), Tran has had enough, and she's taking back her power.
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There was something so endearing about her loyalty, her fashion sense, and her good-hearted nature, especially as the world around her was filled with mean-spirited high school students and a people-killing Demogorgon.
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"@itsjojosiwa I have nothing against you it was the car and the colors I didn't like," he wrote, adding, "I really hope you didn't think it was malicious or mean spirited." it's all good bro!
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Linda Sánchez (Calif.), vice chairwoman of the House Democratic Caucus, accused the "mean-spirited" Republicans of "putting lives at risk" by pushing forward with their replacement plan, rather than simply fixing the problems with ObamaCare.
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If a partner or partners see their differing views as a chance to prove they're right, Scott said, it can result in a mean-spirited argument regardless of the exact topic that incited the fight.
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Of course, we would still need to address the immediate refugee and humanitarian issues on our border with compassion and generosity, not with the mean-spirited, "punish the victim" approach that has characterized recent efforts.
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For all that he obviously could be mean-spirited, dyspeptic, and even downright violent to some writers, I never saw this side of him and neither did most of the people I've talked to since.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left the State Department on Thursday, calling Washington a "mean-spirited town" but saying nothing about President Donald Trump in his farewell remarks to department employees.
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"This can be a very mean-spirited town but you don't have to choose to participate in that," Tillerson told staff gathered in the lobby of the State Department, his comments interrupted by loud applause.
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Yeah we poke fun at some of the sillier aspects, but nowadays a good amount of fans are pretty turned off by the mean-spirited and cynical nature of a lot of Sonic-centric comedy.
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I have a hard time, though, accepting that it&aposs OK to demonize ICE agents, and border patrol, and the president, and the administration, all saying that they&aposre mean-spirited and they want children abused.
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Our president just did the very mean-spirited, un-American thing of not welcoming refugees to our incredible country for at least 120 days My friend Mike just sent this heartbreaking text about his refugee friend.
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Asked to explain that, Clinton cited "unfounded, inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks with no basis in truth" which "take on a life of their own," pointing to Republicans' criticism at the party's convention in Cleveland last week.
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Hillary Clinton: Well, it — it is — you know, a lot of as you at the Republican convention — unfounded, inaccurate, mean-spirited attacks with no basis in truth — reality, which take on a life of their own.
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Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), vice chairwoman of the House Democratic Caucus, accused the "mean-spirited" Republicans of "putting lives at risk" by pushing forward with their replacement plan, rather than simply fixing the problems with ObamaCare.
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But when it's blatantly self-serving and beyond the normal competition that the press so enjoys focusing on, instead of, wouldn't it better if all the press were focusing on the Senate heartless, mean-spirited bill?
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"Aside from the fact that it's been hugely mean-spirited with mildly sinister undertones, I'd say the vibe of the show is pretty good so far, wouldn't you?" the actor said when he took the stage.
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We, Canada, Mexico and many other nations make up this continent called North America, and it makes no sense to publicly speak ill of the Canadian Prime Minister -- and certainly not in such mean-spirited terms.
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"Trump's tweets and his own language offline has set the precedent and enabled people to come out of the woodwork and be more harassing and more mean-spirited than they otherwise would have been," Rosenblatt said.
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A skit in which Rachel Bloom portrays a loopy pseudoscience conspiracist falls flat, as do most of the show's purely comedic segments, because within the show's structure they often feel superimposed, unfocused, and frankly mean-spirited.
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Indeed, if Trump were drummed out of office in favor of someone less ignorant, mean-spirited, dishonest, corrupt, and arrogant, he would be replaced by someone who hewed closer to congressional Republicans' policy views, not further.
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In keeping with the tone that the Wilkes-Barre Township Police Department often uses in comments, its Facebook followers take the lead in disparaging offenders' appearances in mean-spirited and sometimes outright racist or sexist terms.
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Despite emotional pleas from open borders advocates that a border wall is mean-spirited and against the principles of America, there is an abundance of evidence from around the world that border walls are highly effective.
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He may not be held to the same public standards as a politician (at least in the pre-Trump era), but that doesn't mean he can get away with spouting whatever mean-spirited garbage he wants.
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A report published Friday by the Los Angeles Blade, however, indicated that the White House had approved guidance for implementing the ban, which Lambda legal called a "mean-spirited and discriminatory attack" on the LGBT community.
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Framed as under the table jabs rather than an above board argument that 76 is too old, Castro came off as mean-spirited even though polls do show that concern about a septuagenarian president are widespread.
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Facebook: If you see wrongdoing, report it There was no rule, however, against posting naked images of "Wooks" or "Wookies" -- a mean-spirited comparison of female Marines to Star Wars' Chewbacca -- to a shared drive, LaPorta said.
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" The editor-in-chief subsequently published a note saying the original op-ed has been "interpreted by some as a sexist and mean-spirited personal attack on Samantha Yammine in particular and women science communicators in general.
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" The tweets came after Nick Kapur, a Rutgers history professor and author of a book about 1960s Japan, sparked a backlash by posting a detailed thread which labeled the board game "mean-spirited and woefully ill-informed.
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The thought of having to witness and worse listen to the manufactured consent summoned to celebrate that mean-spirited, buffoon of a carnival barker ascending to the office of president almost sends me into a fugue state.
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But Tories will be tempted to linger over the contrast between their mean-spirited campaign in London and the tremendous success of their once written-off Scottish wing, which soared to second place in Edinburgh last night.
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" MARA KEISLING, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY "This is a mean-spirited attack on hundreds of thousands of students who simply want to be their true selves and be treated with dignity while attending school.
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The Angels, who have a player who is unanimously considered best in the game and no one seems to care about him because they are a boring franchise with a crusty manager and a mean-spirited owner.
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After Morgan posted a photo of herself and Altschul on the network's float at Sunday's New York City Pride Parade, a mean-spirited commenter accused the Southern Charm star of keeping Sudler-Smith from coming out as gay.
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Reilly isn't given much to work with here either, and is left trying to get additional mileage from listless scenes that subject Dr. Watson to all sorts of comedic torment (be it emotional neglect or mean-spirited slapstick).
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"We're especially worried about the impact on the over 1.5 million Americans who are transgender, given the really awful and mean-spirited and false things that Director Severino has said so many times about transgender people," she said.
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"On behalf of the party, I wanted to apologize for the salacious and sensitive, very mean-spirited emails that were referenced to in the WikiLeaks," she told Fox News on Monday from the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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On Friday, he used his Twitter account, which is infamous for its mean-spirited rhetoric, to link to clips of a recent Capitol Hill appearance by Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Though it's not always easy to watch — seeing someone try so hard to ruin their own life can be excruciating — Her Smell's march toward something like peace for Becky, however tenuous, makes it empathetic rather than mean-spirited.
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Or a less inspiring example: Who would have believed that a notoriously corrupt and famously tacky New York real estate rich boy turned Twitter-happy, mean-spirited game show host could be elected president of the United States?
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The movies aren't explicitly mean-spirited about this dynamic, but it's there, and they're all the more squeamish when viewed now in country where the sitting president could be summed up in these same terms, in a nutshell.
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One of the mean-spirited tweeters is a seemingly rational preschool teacher — an interesting choice, even though it doesn't take a massive intellectual upheaval to believe that all the terrible shitbags online are actually "normal" people with fulfilling careers.
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On the one hand, I'm so angry about these mean-spirited people running our country, and at the same time I also have some sympathy for some of the people who felt left out enough to go to Trump.
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Tori Spelling stars as a mean-spirited celebrity talk show host who's visited by Gary Coleman (of Diff'rent Strokes fame) as the Ghost of Christmas Past and William Shatner (of Star Trek fame) as the Ghost of Christmas Present.
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It's a strange premise that works, because Van Der Beek's hand is in everything: He's writer, showrunner, and actor as he portrays an exaggerated, fictionalized, and slightly dimmer version of Diplo—all while managing not to veer into mean-spirited territory.
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Instead, the Cuban people, like the rest of the world, is seeing the face of an angry, vindictive America; not inviting or inspiring as it used to be, but angry, mean-spirited and, on top of it all, pretty inept.
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Extremist Republicans who cut taxes for the wealthy, denied health care to poor people, attacked public education, suppressed votes and targeted immigrants and minorities with mean-spirited legislation are making their last stand against the ballot box and the courts.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Bullies are ruining U.S. gymnast Gabby Douglas's Olympic adventure by attacking her appearance, accusing her of being unpatriotic, and by mocking her with a mean-spirited nickname, "Crabby Gabby", on social media, her mother told Reuters.
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Jenkintown, Pennsylvania (CNN)Hillary Clinton said Friday the Internet has provided a place for bullies to say "the most vile, harassing, incredibly mean spirited things" that "they would never say it to somebody's face" -- an issue she has personal experience with.
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The goose may seem a little mean-spirited at times, but because it's controlled by the player — and because its human targets are only a few shades past inanimate, rather than developed characters — it functions as a scrappy, lovable hero.
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After weeks of media lead-up, cringing over the possibility of more ugly, personal humor like the barbs that made headlines after Gervais hosted the Globes in 2010, 2011, and 2013, he was worse than mean-spirited: he was dull.
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"There is just something about that Jersey guy attitude -- feisty but not mean-spirited, tough but not hateful -- that has a shot at taking an angry electorate and helping it find a focus and a purpose," the Herald wrote Monday.
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The plot often revolves around Rocko's day-to-day life surviving the torment of his next-door neighbor, a frog named Mr. Bighead, and his mundane job at a local comic book shop run by the mean-spirited Mr. Smitty.
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It should not be necessary to be crass and mean-spirited to make a point or to express an opinion — even when doing so on some issue that sparks intensely-held views, or with someone with whom you strongly disagree.
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" Pettlon wrote in the letter, "He (Hill) categorically denies he has ever 'punched' his son in the chest or anywhere on his body, or otherwise touched him in the chest in a mean-spirited manner or as a form of discipline.
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The sad faces and tales of misery portrayed in the coverage tugged at the heartstrings and lead readers to one conclusion: the only reason Sessions enacted this policy is because he is mean-spirited and doesn't like women and small children.
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"It grieves me for anyone who's part of this committee to slander you and be remorseless when they make slanderous comments about you or mean-spirited remarks about people in the admininistration who simply want to enforce the law," said Rep.
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"Speaker Ryan is bringing up for a vote a one-sided Republican resolution that does not speak for Democrats, and will only feed the mean-spirited, anti-immigrant obsession of his party's most extreme forces," Pelosi said in a statement.
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"This is a mean-spirited attack on hundreds of thousands of students who simply want to be their true selves and be treated with dignity while attending school," said Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.
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In the Chinese capital especially, Marbury is more than a cult hero who endeared himself to a new audience; he has become the sporting embodiment of Beijing, a city whose people are commonly stereotyped as mean-spirited and tough-nosed.
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" In a tweet, since deleted, the journalist Yashar Ali wrote that Wu's "conduct today comes as no surprise to anyone who has worked with her in recent years," because of her "reputation for being rude, petty, mean-spirited, and ungrateful.
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His inflammatory rhetoric, mean-spirited "fighting back" and failure to find national common ground has led to the #Resistance colliding squarely with #MAGA in ugly eruptions on social media and in zealous counterprotesters confronting intransigent protesters in a city near you.
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Tom UdallThomas (Tom) Stewart UdallDemocrats, environmentalists blast Trump rollback of endangered species protections Republicans should get behind the 28th Amendment New Mexico says EPA abandoned state in fight against toxic 'forever chemicals' MORE called the bill "mean-spirited," while Sen.
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Instead of building solidarity, study after study shows that as the gulf between rich and poor widens, voters become increasingly mean spirited and hostile to the welfare state, progressive taxation and regulations designed to protect consumers, workers and the environment.
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Someone was telling me about a GIF that seems really mean-spirited: It's just the three dots [that denote someone is typing on an iPhone], and you can text it to someone and it looks like you're typing at them forever.
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As much as the film belongs to Griffith, it's Weaver who shows off a different side of herself following Alien and Ghostbusters, and her prissy performance paved the way for her turn as Lewis MacDougall's mean-spirited Grandma in A Monster Calls.
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"This is a mean-spirited attack on hundreds of thousands of students who simply want to be their true selves and be treated with dignity while attending school," Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said in a statement.
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"The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed," she writes in an excerpt from the book, which was obtained ahead of the November 13 release date by the Washington Post and other outlets.
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This has sparked public debate with regard to what constitutes an acceptable form of protest, and the action was called "petty" and "mean-spirited" by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, whose government have spent €5 million [$5.9 million] alone on police for the occasion.
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Citing an advance copy of the book, the Post quoted her as saying the so-called birther movement, which falsely claimed President Barack Obama began life as a foreigner, was "crazy and mean-spirited" and could have put her family in danger.
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What's often termed the "food stamp cutoff" was one of the more contentious measures added by Republicans to Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare reform bill—at the time, one Democratic lawmaker called it the "most mean-spirited amendment" he had seen in 22 years.
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Then spend some time searching for stories of Dora's apparently infamous scams and crimes, and the people who hated him because they thought he was a mean-spirited bastard, and the people who apparently quite liked the fact that he was a bastard.
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Doug Collins, the top-ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, criticized Nadler for plowing ahead with the contempt citation, calling the move "cynical" and "mean-spirited," and arguing that grand jury materials contained in the report must remain secret by law.
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The skill with which she has handled impeachment, dealing with a mean-spirited often unhinged president, navigated the ideological schisms within her own party to produce an impressive legislative record is the envy of more than a few Republicans who abhor her views.
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All he has to do is change his ways, to turn himself into a new-and-improved Donald Trump; a "Donald Trump 2.0" — a more likable, more civil, more empathetic, more decent, more humane, less confrontational, less narcissistic, less mean-spirited Donald Trump.
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There's a particular moment few episodes from now where Asuka says something mean-spirited but in a soft way that reveals a sort of connection to Shinji that would have set the stage for this in a way that would have felt genuine.
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Williams's forthrightness and poise in the role make Jessica's penchant for brutal honesty feel bold and refreshing, rather than like a mean-spirited defense mechanism, and her standup-honed comedic timing brings life to otherwise stale interactions (particularly those between Jessica and her young students).
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But she plans to disclose it if there is any specific discussion involving Donald Jr. What is absurd is for New York Daily News columnist Linda Stasi in a mean-spirited piece that erroneously describes Guilfoyle as a reporter to demand she be fired.
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The host of morning show Un Nuevo Día and former soap opera star is standing up to her critics after a photo she posted of herself in a swimsuit during a beach vacation with her partner filled up with mean-spirited comments about her weight.
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At another point, he did a mean-spirited dramatic reading of texts sent to each other by Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, two anti-Trump FBI agents who have been the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories about the origins of the Russia investigation.
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She said it was especially damaging the party with young people to be fighting so stridently to maintain what she called "very hurtful, very mean-spirited" language including declaring families without a married mother and father to be damaging to society and to children.
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There's no doubt that many of goodwill may differ on the wisdom of the invasion of Iraq, the Patriot Act and so-called "enhanced" interrogation procedures, but to dishonestly go into the realm of fantasy and mean-spirited fabrication serves to completely undermine honest debate.
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Or attempt to picture Sean HannitySean Patrick HannityTrump criticizes Fox, which 'isn't working for us anymore' Hannity rips Maher's Koch comments: 'You're a mean-spirited jackass' ABC chose a debate moderator who hates Trump MORE being tapped by Fox to moderate a GOP presidential debate.
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The deal emerged 21 months after 25-year-old Freddie Gray died while in police custody in April 2015, and five months after a scathing Department of Justice report alleged a litany of unconstitutional, racist, and just plain mean-spirited policing practices in Charm City.
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At the time, Leon Levitt, vice president of strategy for Cox Media Group, said the website "would be a blend of aggregated content and original content for conservatives, a blend of news, politics and lifestyle and culture, and not be mean-spirited," according to Politico.
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"I think they've kind of crossed that line, and become an agenda-based show where they are not in the camp of being funny as much as personally attacking the president and the folks around him in a very mean-spirited way," he said.
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"A lot of the problems with the Loft Law — not all of them, but a lot — were created by some of the mean-spirited and exclusionary rules that were introduced to the 2010 amendment at the last minute," DeLaney told Hyperallergic after the meeting.
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They disdain his in-your-face style, his endless and often mean-spirited tweets and, most importantly, they remain deeply concerned over what they perceive as his failure to forcefully denounce the extremists from the alt-right and the anti-Semitic hate they spawn.
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Arguably, the tragic events in Charlottesville and demonstrations in Boston are a continuation of the mean-spirited election of 28503, which partitioned the nation into rival factions often more concerned about their own political agendas, particular needs and fears than the nation's general welfare.
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Even when the stories include some elements of pearl clutching ("I admit he's a pretty nasty guy, but he's so charming…"), the act of configuring mean-spirited rat king harassers into figures worthy of awe, fear, and endless hot takes only makes those figures more prominent.
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For many French politicians of all stripes, Germany has gone too far in bossing the rest of Europe around, and in causing a huge economic, social and political damage to France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece with the imposition of its mean-spirited and misguided fiscal austerity.
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Despite the films' marketing, which emphasizes the title character's outrageousness, the series leans far more heavily on pop culture references, superhero genre in-jokes, and Looney-Tunes-with-gore slapstick for humor, rather than anything overtly "edgy" or "un-PC" — uncomfortably mean-spirited jokes are relatively rare.
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The American media as an institution has created this mess and seem to have no concern for or understanding of the damage they are causing the people of this country, the human beings that follow their salacious, mean-spirited, gossip-driven reality show that is today's politics.
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Why should Cruz or any of the other candidates have respected a pledge to support a nominee who subsequently revealed himself to be so mean-spirited and disrespectful of civil discourse, to say nothing of proving himself to be woefully unqualified and temperamentally unfit to be president?
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In fact, a number of pundits—comedian Bill MaherWilliam (Bill) MaherHannity rips Maher's Koch comments: 'You're a mean-spirited jackass' Economic expansions don't die of old age Bill Maher says he's 'glad' David Koch is dead MORE among them—appear to be actively rooting for recession.
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He suggested that next time someone put forward an idea, instead of responding with the words "no, but…" (insert mean-spirited objection to other person's creativity), we should instead force ourselves to respond with a "yes, and…" (insert positive-spirited, constructive comment building on other person's idea).
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What's insidious about the Times piece is that it puts readers in the position of feeling the need to forgive Bush and recognize his current artistic work as somehow redemptive; otherwise we seem mean-spirited or, perhaps worse, unfairly unable to evaluate another person beyond stereotype.
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What may be more concerning, however, are the allegations that Meghan is so difficult and demanding that the Queen has banned her from her jewelry box, and more or less echo the same kind of mean-spirited, racist gossip Meghan has been dealing with since joining the royal family.
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" Banned content includes that which is "defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups, particularly if the app is likely to humiliate, intimidate, or place a targeted individual or group in harm's way.
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"Anyone who believes this is mean spirited or 10 years old or younger because a logical person doesn't talk or think this way u should be ashamed of yourself really," he continued, explaining that while he will always have love for Gomez, he has moved on with his life.
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"Anyone who believes this is mean spirited or 10 years old or younger because a logical person doesn't talk or think this way u should be ashamed of yourself really," he continued, explaining that while he will always have love for Gomez, he's moved on with his life.
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The closest comparison may be the sort of mean-spirited language Theodore Roosevelt used against William Howard Taft when the two Republicans and former friends ran against each other for president in 1912, a year that bought a party rupture some Republicans fear will happen again this year.
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Only it's others who bear them -- human beings swept up in his incoherent and mean-spirited tirades, and regular people like Jill McCabe, who ran for office because, as an emergency room pediatrician, she thought maybe she could help outside of the ER in addition to in it.
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" But Zervos' lawsuit isn't about the alleged assault but rather about Trump's mean-spirited denials; it's a defamation suit that accuses Trump of willing and knowingly lying about the accusations brought by Zervos and others and that these women "would be subjected to threats of violence, economic harm, and reputational damage.
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"The whole rule is so short-sighted and mean-spirited because we know these nutrition programs are not only incredible sources of nutrition, they improve health and well-being" that "help children learn," said Alexandra Ashbrook, director of special projects at the Food Research and Action Center, an anti-hunger group.
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" The first clause of the guidelines explicitly rejects content that is "defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups, particularly if the app is likely to humiliate, intimidate, or place a targeted individual or group in harm's way.
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Twice the Price is also located next door to an authorized retailer of Verizon, which seems even more mean-spirited considering that, at the end of the day, Sprint's not actually sticking it to corporate Verizon — the ones in charge of setting service prices — but the little people it's hoping to serve.
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" Between the lines: Tillerson, who was unceremoniously ousted with a phone call from chief of staff John Kelly while using the toilet, used part of his speech to advocate treating others well, telling employees, "This can be a very mean-spirited town, but you don't have to choose to participate in that.
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"What I really find so appalling is the insulting, mean-spirited derogatory language that is used starting first and foremost against our president, immigrants, refugees and now they've thrown in New Yorkers," she said, calling out Ted Cruz and Chris Christie for "coded racial language" because they called Obama a "child" during the debate.
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AGAIN, MY OPTIMISM IS PREMISED ON THE IDEA THAT A REAL AGGRESSIVE MEAN SPIRITED TRADE WAR IS SO BAD AND THE NECESSITY AND THE ADVANTAGES THAT COME FROM TRADE BACK AND FORTH IS SO GOOD IT'D BE A VERY FARFETCHED THING TO NOT GET THERE WHEN WE KIND OF AGREE MOSTLY ON THE FACTS.
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"The current policy is just mean-spirited, counterproductive, it's not in the best interest of the kids, the parents, it's not in the best interest of the country," said Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, which has housed children separated from their parents under the new policy.
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Her speech on Tuesday night gave the impression that she intends to stay until the bitter end, which will serve no purpose other than to let her push her vindictive platform and opinions, like the time at her CNN town hall when she took a mean-spirited jab at voters who believe in traditional marriage.
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But to reverse Clinton's recent slide in the polls and prevent further Trump gains among undecided and independent voters, they have to prosecute the case that Trump is a shady and mean-spirited businessman with troubling ties to Russia who would undermine key international alliances and devastate the economy with his policies on trade and immigration.
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Yes, it's that special time of year when insipid brands, mean-spirited teens, and tech titans compete to be the first to trick you into thinking they released Skittle's... For Men, that it's a good idea to eat an entire pod of datura seeds, or that they're releasing a new app that's like Uber but with riding lawnmowers, respectively.
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As ThinkProgress editor Judd Legum notes: Trump has made us a bit numb but the coordinated, dishonest and mean-spirited attacks on a group of high school students by the right-wing media -- a group of students who just survived a mass shooting -- is an abomination Breitbart highlighted videos purportedly showing Hogg making a Nazi salute.
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"Trump's brawling, blustery, mean-spirited public persona serves to associate conservatives with all the negative stereotypes that liberals have for decades attached to their opponents on the right," Michael Medved, the conservative talk show host, wrote in National Review in January: Trump is the living, breathing, bellowing personification of all the nasty characteristics Democrats routinely ascribe to Republicans.
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Though it's not always easy to watch — seeing someone try so hard to ruin their own life can be excruciating — the film's march toward something like peace, however tenuous, for Becky makes it an empathetic rather than mean-spirited look at the cost of celebrity, and the possibility of returning to the land of the living.
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Though it's not always easy to watch — seeing someone try so hard to ruin their own life can be excruciating — Her Smell's march toward something like peace for Becky, however tenuous, makes it an empathetic rather than mean-spirited look at the cost of celebrity and the possibility for anyone to return to the land of the living.
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Twitter people pointed out that the story, which was aggregated from the Daily Mail and refers to Owens as having been "spotted" working at Trader Joe's like some kind of rare Pokémon, reads like a mean-spirited attempt to shame him for working outside of the entertainment industry — as if anything an actor does after being on TV is a fall from grace.
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None of the jokes are going to be all-timers — okay, maybe one line about Pierce Brosnan will make it into the time capsule (it's in the season's second episode) — but the characters have a warm and funny way about them that the original Roseanne had in spades and the new version too often replaced with mean-spirited insults and the like.
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They like that I've been out front since the day I got to the Senate on immigration reform, that I believe that Dreamers should stay in America, that I believe that you should have a path to citizenship for our immigrant workforce and that you should not put these mean-spirited caps on refugees because they have a workforce that is diverse.
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In the 13 years since its publication, Eat, Pray, Love has shape-shifted from a freak publishing phenomenon to a cultural touchstone for middle-aged (mostly white) women to, just as quickly, a joke — either about middle-aged white women or about their particular cultural blindness — tinged with a kind of mean-spirited irony that Gilbert doesn't seem to possess, either in person or on the page.
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Though it's not always easy to watch — seeing someone try so hard to ruin their own life can be excruciating — Her Smell's march toward something like peace for Becky, however tenuous, makes it an empathetic rather than mean-spirited look at the cost of being a celebrity and the possibility for anyone who faces similar struggles to return to the land of the living.
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A film that arguably represents the exact moment that the late, legendary storyteller and lifelong Chicagoan John Hughes's talents started to fade, Home Alone is a mean-spirited and outlandish (even for movies) tale of a family who hates their child just enough to forget to take him on vacation, and a child that spends time in solitude and increasingly panics without bothering to directly contact the authorities until the end of the film.
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Dreamers and immigrant families are not going to suddenly view Trump as their fighter in chief because he threw some pablum language into the beginning of the speech about how, "struggling communities, especially immigrant communities, will also be helped by immigration policies that focus on the best interests of American workers and American families"-- especially since just moments later in his remarks he doubled down on the mean-spirited proposal that harks back to the cruel immigration quota laws of the 1920's.
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He'd been surprised at how some of those essays were received in the world — that his Edith Wharton essay in The New Yorker that mentioned her self-consciousness about her looks could be misconstrued as sexist when she herself was so obsessed with appearances ("His depiction of Edith Wharton was so mean-spirited and off-key that I tossed and turned," Victoria Patterson wrote in The Los Angeles Review of Books), or that his New Yorker essay on threats to birds more immediate than global change — like the proliferation of glassy buildings that blindside birds in flight — had resulted in the vitriol it did.
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