Meanness — especially viral comedic meanness — when directed at power, is admirable.
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One thing that Gawker is a case study of is the internet more than meanness qua meanness.
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It occasionally fuels an anticipation for human meanness, but that meanness never materializes; there is no plot about locals feeding white girls to sharks.
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"It kept growing — this meanness inside me," she says.
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They don't come from a place of ridicule or meanness.
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Until then, any ideas for keeping the meanness at bay?
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His meanness toward women is part of the same picture.
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Meanness is one of the few weapons that anyone can wield.
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Trapped in our Discipline; capable of meanness, of judgment, of greed.
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"Do we want a world where there's a meanness?" he asked.
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Absolutely. But there's a crucial tonal difference: no meanness in it.
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Because our political spite and meanness have gotten out of control.
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Now all that's being augmented an overarching sense of fear and meanness.
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There's a streak of meanness now that they've crossed over to mean.
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And this time, all the meanness was directed straight back at him.
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"There are ... sickening acts of hate, prejudice and simple meanness," Reid said.
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He'd tried meanness, only to watch his support decline rather than increase.
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Bruised bananas languished on desks, suggesting a certain meanness amid the plenty.
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But, God damn it, he didn't know where the meanness came from.
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But while his characters can be cruel, he never succumbs to meanness.
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" Another said it's a "shameful display of meanness poorly masked as empathy.
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After all, meanness among friends isn't the same as bullying, she told herself.
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"I don't think anyone thought she did it out of meanness," he says.
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The American "Master Chef"- and "Cake Boss"-style meanness isn't really our jam.
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You wouldn't blame all Christians for the meanness of the Westboro Baptist Church.
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Once, I'd been moved by Holden's existential plight, by his meanderings and his meanness.
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AND NOT BE AFFECTED BY ALL THE MEANNESS AND ALL THISSTUFF THAT WE'VE SEEN.
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But more than anything, Shelly serves to expose the meanness underlying this whole film.
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But this, she believes, has been taken too far — to justify outright, purposeless meanness.
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It will be important, then, to distinguish casual meanness from acts of justifiable rage.
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A second experiment identified signs of boldness, meanness, and disinhibition in 250 college students.
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But the final pages do contain the closest thing we get in this non-judgmental book to a judgment on her turbulent father (emphasis mine): When people speak and write about my father's meanness, they sometimes assume that meanness is linked to genius.
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I believe that the anger, meanness and contagiousness of social media help to spread depersonalization.
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That meanness is alienating, even to those who might agree with him on the substance.
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Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.), whose demagoguery and meanness had cowed the rest of the Senate.
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I am still taken aback: the pettiness, the meanness, the extravagant flights of pure fantasy.
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The past months have revealed a personality given to impetuous anger, meanness, mendacity and petulance.
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And the daily chorus of craziness, instability and meanness that dominates American politics is beyond frustrating.
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Twitter is for amplifying the worst of us: shameless self-promotion, baseless speculation, and unproductive meanness.
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Lucas was the main target of her meanness... and this could very well be his revenge.
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Let's really repudiate the meanness, the divisiveness, the bullying that we've seen from the other side.
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This meanness was not due to penury: China boasts more dollar billionaires today than does America.
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He's still the black-hat guy, and he must pay for the meanness of his ways.
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I reject most of Trump's "innovations" because they come from a place of meanness and division.
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"Behind the meanness of politics, there are some beating hearts and caring people," Mr. Durbin said.
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Sometimes that urgency manifested itself in inspiration, sometimes in meanness, sometimes in humor, sometimes in seriousness.
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But Lady Gaga, whose fans reportedly contributed to the meanness, doesn't want to focus on the hate.
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With keen psychological observation, Fitzgerald discloses in these people a meanness of spirit and absence of loyalties.
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It balances truly spectacular meanness with an empathetic streak, which forms the central tension of the show.
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"We could do with a bit of meanness in American society," said Yiannopoulos, who writes for Breitbart.
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"I don't want to necessarily blame, but there's a great meanness out there that I'm surprised at."
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Your meanness is staggering and will earn you a ticket to a sad, lonely and sorry life.
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Put another way, Williamson excels at the sort of reactionary meanness that has long dominated conservative punditry.
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Will Ramsay's followers ever learn to expect the barrage of meanness that comes from the chef's mouth?
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The ratios of magic to meanness, of ugliness to beauty, of virtue to vice don't really change.
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It is undeniably tough to be ostracized, especially because kids zero in on difference with unerring meanness.
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Ultimately the goal of that video is to suggest that meanness isn't cool, and niceness is cool.
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Not least because the other thing about WWE babyfaces, the meanness and pettiness when challenged, was completely absent.
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But she is manifestly more competent than Mr. Trump whose braggadocio, divisiveness and meanness are on daily display.
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At other points, however, Nye's skepticism verges into meanness, and at one crucial point fails him all together.
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There has been meanness, and worse, in the world, of course, long before there was a President Trump.
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Trump said that Kavanaugh has "suffered the meanness, the anger" of the Democratic Party throughout his nomination process.
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" He continued: "One of my few regrets is my inability to reduce the polarization and meanness in our politics.
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"It's amazing the way uncalled-for meanness warmed my loathsome little heart," she writes in the excerpt in Glamour.
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I remain baffled by the sheer meanness of the comment, but also know that others have suffered much worse.
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Miller's Nephew-ness derives from his meanness: despite being five feet, 10 inches tall, he is a small man.
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And there's at least as much meanness, trolling, confusion, and anger to be mined from it all, as well.
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"One of my few regrets is my inability to reduce the polarization and meanness in our politics," Obama said.
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The show can be straight-up silly, but there's a through line of genuine meanness that's not for everyone.
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Sumpter had the confidence and meanness to deflect any questions from the audience that demanded specifics instead of platitudes.
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CAB is the product of the blood, sweat, and meanness of Gabe Fowler, the most hated man in comics.
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We cannot continue the meanness, personal slurs, and polarizing attacks, all of which are doing great harm to America.
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The abolitionist feminist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper called Johnson an "incarnation of meanness," words that are still applicable today.
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Because for as much meanness as a scene like this may suggest out of context — everyone's fighting, after all!
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Ed Sheeran is pretty much done with Twitter because of the meanness, he revealed in an interview with The Sun.
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While speaking to Camille, Alan (Henry Czerny) let on that Adora's behavior can be explained by her own mother's meanness.
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Like Trump, he poses as a tough man and wants the world to believe that his meanness is a virtue.
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Bigotry and meanness flow through every moment like an underground stream, but kindness is always possible, and so is beauty.
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But at least I'll feel relief that the American people didn't vindicate Trumpism and the nativism and meanness it represents.
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Still, it gives people just enough time to consider the audacity of meanness behind what Republicans are trying to do.
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Whatever their faults, Wright claims, they are men of character who displayed little of the partisan meanness so prevalent today.
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Elizabeth Khan, Cary, N.C. This article underestimates the dishonesty and just plain meanness of the Republican tyranny in North Carolina.
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Which is why we've got to make sure that our answer is not some kind of equal-and-opposite meanness.
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I am the Danish grandson of these refugees and I am saddened by the meanness of heart that seems to prevail.
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For people with a tendency towards aggression or "meanness," Quigley says it's important to not drink as much, or at all.
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" " 'SNL' used to be really funny," Spicer said Sunday, "There's a streak of meanness now that they've crossed over to mean.
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Rather, as in the "womp womp" moment, he's a representative figure of the presidency and its driving impulses of gratuitous meanness.
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No marital meanness or dramatic blowups disturb the calm of a plot that keeps its discreetly roiling emotions on the inside.
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Not all misbehavior reflects psychopathology; the fact is that ordinary human meanness and incompetence are far more common than mental illness.
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Read these stories next:Matilda's Mara Wilson Tells Us About "Prettygirls" & PowerWhy I'm Heartbroken Over BrangelinaThe Underlying Meanness Of The First Wives Club
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Spadafora stepped into the ring that day in 1999 an undefeated lightweight champion, with a title he'd earned through durability and meanness.
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"When she escorts us into the private lives of popular culture's gods and monsters, it's with a spirit of wonder, not meanness."
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Although a dozen other states have similar bills pending, Patrick's legislation embodied the meanness and the intolerance that many Americans associate with Texas.
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Fleck is bullied by thieving poor kids and drunken rich guys, goaded to the point of murder by the meanness of the world.
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" Meanwhile, in his review for the San Francisco Chronicle, Peter Stack bemoaned the film's "meanness," pointing out that it's "aimed at preteen girls.
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Thorpe: FYAD was certainly known as a mean place, but it was not mean on the level of the meanness you see nowadays.
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"Not only are we living in a time, but also we're witnessing a certain amount of meanness ... which we should not tolerate," Curry said.
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By forging letters in other people's voices, Lee finds her own voice again; she's scathingly funny, her cynicism and meanness put to entertaining use.
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Max is filling the role of man's best friend rather than subservient mutt and the Grinch isn't rising to even Despicable Me meanness levels.
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The benevolence or meanness of individual masters makes very little difference in a society built on the total exploitation of human bodies for profit.
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"What strikes me about stunts like this is their fundamental meanness," Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, wrote on Twitter.
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Was there a mote of meanness in her eye, or did it just see more than our lazy gaze can ever hope to do?
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In 2016, Brown University released a study concluding that young people are at higher risk of depression if they experience cyber-bullying or meanness online.
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He lets you see Miles sweat, shows the vanity — Miles primping his hair — panic, drug-hunger, meanness, but also the sly intelligence, pleasure and genius.
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And this man, whose meanness and petulance and childlike inadequacies have been on display for more than a year now, may become president next month.
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You see the meanness, the nastiness, they don't care who they hurt, who they have to run over in order to get power and control.
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" Later, over a dinner in which he got two scoops of ice cream to everyone else's one, he marveled without irony at his critics' "meanness.
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My friends who work on TV, people I love personally, are using a tone and a meanness in their jobs that they never used before.
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His poster for Bullitt (1968) has Steve McQueen leaning rakishly against mondo-cool vertical lines, the image of modernity and the meanness that follows it.
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But the cost of that comfort and those pretty rooms — and the eager acquiescence to the unfairness and meanness they signify — comes at a terrible price.
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He has inured people to the thread of violence and meanness lurking in almost every utterance; or worse, he has started to make them relish it.
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As I grew older, I began to understand the true nature of these customs inside of a global system of gender — their unfairness, their meanness, their absurdity.
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I mean it's fascinating that Peter Thiel can spend all his money ruining a group of people that he considers mean and there's so much meanness everywhere.
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In love with the sound of my own voice, unaware of how lastingly harmful meanness could be, I was sometimes far harsher than I should have been.
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I feel compassion for the fact that her meanness is rooted in insecurity, and I've tried to compliment her and tell her how much I admire her.
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The initial reviews were those of a precocious, attention-hungry beginner: too many words, too much personality, too much hyperbole and too much look-at-me meanness.
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From Trump's White House there now seeps a kind of ignorance mixed with vulgarity and topped with meanness that I find impossible to wash from my skin.
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But Trump's speech at the U.N. offered the first real glimpse of how she might fashion herself into an advocate who speaks out against meanness and cruelty.
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Journalist peeks at the comments, and sees a lot of meanness and abuse (especially if they're a woman, a person of color, or especially a woman of color).
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"When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down," he once said.
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Wade or deliberate misrepresentations of Kavanaugh's judicial opinions and other writings, Chairman Grassley, unruffled, let Democrats put their pettiness, meanness, and foolishness on display for 300 million Americans.
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"What critics said: "While 'Insatiable' would like you to excuse its considerable meanness as satire or even good-doing, the truth is that it's often tooth-tinglingly saccharine.
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My cluing was intended to be top-to-bottom tough, endeavoring to have as many never-before-seen clues as possible, with as much wordplay meanness as possible.
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I wish Ms. Aitken had hit more of them: the meanness, the manipulation, the bullying ways powerful people behave when they don't get what they think they deserve.
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"That's what contributes to the meanness and paralysis of North Carolina politics," says Mac McCorkle, a former Democratic political consultant who's now a public-policy professor at Duke.
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It glosses over the criminal meanness and fraudulence of a media-fed war that was "trivial, for all its vastness," as Bertrand Russell, who lived through it, wrote.
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" On Sunday, Spicer echoed his boss's view on the Alec Baldwin portrayal of Trump, telling "Extra": "There's a streak of meanness that they have kind of crossed over into.
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She has a feeling for hard people partly shaped by often-unforgiving circumstances, yet she never succumbs to meanness in her telling, an ethic that DaCosta also shares here.
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The meanness has been dialed down several notches – there's no assistant getting toyed with by a pterodactyl this time – and the special effects look many orders of magnitude better.
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While the Donald amps up the tawdriness to levels unseen for many generations, the coarseness, meanness, and general low-mindedness marking this Republican primary battle are not at all unprecedented.
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"Amy has been the target of mockery and meanness on Facebook, on Twitter, in blog posts — I feel like, Wow, I have never seen that in science," Van Bavel says.
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But something that he said stood out, not just because it went so ludicrously far, even by Trumpian standards, but because it so perfectly captured his distinctive madness and meanness.
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"I think there is a feeling, listening to some of this, not only are we living in a time ... but we are witnessing a certain amount of meanness," she said.
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Neither has Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, where Mr. Trump campaigned against him Saturday night and lashed out at Democrats for "their meanness and nastiness" in handling the judge.
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Despite efforts to curb hate speech, eradicate bullying and extend tolerance, a culture of nastiness has metastasized in which meanness is routinely rewarded, and common decency and civility are brushed aside.
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I hope to start the coming school year by letting my students know that the new normal of meanness and disrespect, from the president on down, is not, in fact, normal.
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And small tweaks over the course of the next couple weeks, under the guise of making these bills easier to stomach, cannot change the fundamental meanness at the core of this legislation.
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GALANES When I think back to your first moments on the national stage, helping your husband find his passion in politics, the thing that struck me was the meanness turned on you.
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The idea sent him into a fetal huddle on the couch, his back turned to the hot afternoon sun that poured through the window to show up the cottage in its bachelor meanness.
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And yet here we have the actual 2016 presidential election, with — especially on the Republican side — petulant candidates making childish dick jokes and prioritizing personal attacks and meanness over policy debates and vision.
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" Diva status, she wrote, "however undeserved the allowances it gets, is one that's long been denied to a group of people often characterized as unoriginal robots and mean-for-meanness' sake Dragon Ladies.
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Emily is self-absorbed, lazy and rude, but also so lacking in true meanness or guile and so dogged in her pursuit of shallow pleasures that she's kind of fun to be around.
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And, despite being on Reddit, there's also a noticeable lack of meanness, of "WELL ACK-TU-ALLY," or of the kind of anonymous assholery that comes from hiding behind an made-up username.
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For example, I've tried to go beyond the abstract "be kind to everyone" to encourage my children to recognize racial meanness and understand that white kids have a particular responsibility to challenge racism.
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"My opponent has just taken this concern to a new level of difficulty and meanness, and it's shocking when women are called names and judged solely on the basis of physical attributes," she said.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of stealing his terminology when Obama said last week that there was a 'fundamental meanness' at the core of the Republican health care bill.
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The leaders of the media who put together the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner would tell Michelle Wolf to leave the podium when her diatribe crossed the line of civility and moved into meanness.
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Most impressively, the musical is willing to look at the structures that make girls mean, where the movie threw up its hands and declared the meanness of girls to be just fate or something.
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On a platform rife with drama, racist "pranks," and some of the worst commenters on the internet, Cooking With Dog was a welcome respite from the meanness, stupidity, and all-caps self-promotion YouTube engenders.
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My own misgivings about Jeong's tweets have less to do with their substance than with their often snarky tone, occasional meanness, and sheer number: 103,000 over some nine years, averaging about 31 tweets a day.
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Obama's assertion of the bill's "meanness" echoes remarks from President Trump, who reportedly told GOP senators at a meeting last week that the House measure was "mean" and that the Senate bill should be more generous.
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He was a giant, broad-chested and hunched like a big brown bear; his daddy, it was said, was on a chain gang in Alabama for murdering his mother, making Griff's meanness a handed-down thing.
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His jibes can cross over into meanness, and his pontifications can appear oblivious, as when he compares the art of barbecue to the art of jazz in an episode focused entirely on white and Asian cooks.
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But with its varied cast and its lilting confidence in basic human decency, this "As You Like It" offers a utopian vision of a society that favors acceptance over division, honesty over obfuscation, grace over meanness.
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For Carter the larger motive was money, not through any great eagerness on Lizzie's part to inherit her father's fortune but rather in reaction to the man's miserliness: his meanness of spirit as well as his vindictive frugality.
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One scene, in which impatient mothers picking up their children after school in fancy cars angrily honk their horns and raise their middle fingers at one another, captures the generalized meanness and incivility that has seeped into modern life.
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The antidote to what we see in politics today / Is not more meanness, pettiness, smallness, and hatred / It is treating one another with civility and decency / And staying focused on the big things / We want to accomplish together 3.
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It merely targets every stupid-as-shit hate-spewer now adding meanness to the world—starting, let's figure, with a commander-in-chief or something who inspired this Jeremiah-come-lately to spew his report from the fucking front.
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Episode 6 On her tapes, Hannah called Zach out for stealing the "compliments" left in her bag during communications class, an act of meanness that, in comparison to the actions of the other students namechecked on her "reasons" list, felt small.
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" Tapper also spoke at length about the importance of civility, decency and treating people with respect at a time when, as he put it in his speech, "nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
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"When she escorts us into the private lives of popular culture's gods and monsters, it's with a spirit of wonder, not meanness," wrote Jane and Michael Stern in reviewing Smith's 2000 autobiography, "Natural Blonde," for the New York Times Book Review.
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Speaking to Mr. Cooper, Ms. Trump repeatedly denounced what she saw as the meanness and inaccuracy of media accounts about her, and she said she would like to work to protect children from the toxic dangers of negativity and anger on social media.
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"I don&apost possess enough imagination to speculate exactly what forms of creative meanness this president will develop toward me or any fellow Democrat," he told the AP.A more predictable attack is coming from within the Democratic presidential field, notably from Minnesota Sen.
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Out of meanness, she wouldn't let her little sister drink the water until she'd put it in a saucepan and set it over the charcoal grill to boil, which took a very, very long time, until the moon was fat and bright in the sky.
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" Davarian Baldwin, a history professor at Trinity College in Connecticut, said a rhetorical line was crafted during the run-up to the election that "any and all frustrations and meanness" by Trump supporters are acceptable because they represent the "silent and suppressed white male working class.
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"Perhaps my seriousness and militancy in the face of tremendous resistance was misinterpreted as meanness, or that I was unloving or uncaring, when my true intent was to protect," she writes about the time in her life when she was insistent upon working outside of industry demands.
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All this lends credence to one of the more "meta" critical readings of Twin Peaks: The Return, which is that it's partly about countering all the meanness in the world by spending time in the company of the people who matter, before everything changes for the worse.
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It's not that no one has ever been mean to a white person because of their race, or a man because of his sex, or a rich person because of his wealth; it's that there is no systematic structure of power to back up that meanness.
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Initially, a couple of them seemed obscure — hardly a misdemeanor in my book — but give them a chance, and I am sure that any reservations you might have will fall away, unless, of course, you are just a cold-hearted person brimming with jealousy, meanness, and self-righteousness.
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The Daily Mail is focusing its marketing efforts on the over 65s, hoping to make a life preserver out of the rising life expectancy of its majority female readership — a following largely inspired by its deliberate, offhand meanness, specializing in articles written by women for women who hate women.
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STONY THE ROAD Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow By Henry Louis Gates Jr. The inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president seemed to come from some place other than America, as though the white nationalism, the sexism, the meanness of spirit belonged to some hateful foreign country.
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"This is an issue that can be framed as a good government issue and the fact that it's tied to the Trump administration where there's this kind of meanness about immigration coming from the top makes this an issue that can resonate certainly with Democrats and probably a wider swath of Americans," he said.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday knocked former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE for his criticism of the "fundamental meanness" of the Senate GOP's healthcare plan.
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"I think it's important to at least call out the current incumbent of the White House on his simply amazing behavior, and for the pettiness, his vindictiveness and the unreconstituted meanness he displays," Weld was telling the crowd who had turned out to see him on a rainy Sunday afternoon in March at a house party in the town of Dover.
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"It&aposs sexy, there&aposs blood in it, there&aposs meanness," he told the Financial Times in an interview from November of 2018, published the same month as his dramatic arrest in Japan on allegations of financial malfeasance but conducted when he still had the run of the globe, including restaurants in Paris, and could still captivate journalists on the Wall Street–City of London axis.
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Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishment or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was his Almighty power to do.
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It's probably just coincidence, but this sonorous passage seems to echo a verse in the Koran: "If God had willed, he could surely have made you all one single community, but he willed otherwise in order to test you...." Anyway, whatever inspired them, these well-crafted words about the "hypocrisy and meanness" of faith enforced by state power must rank as one of the eloquent critiques of theocracy ever made.
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President Obama issued his own criticism of the bill on Thursday, calling the legislation "fundamental meanness," while former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE on Friday said the GOP would become the "death party" if ObamaCare is repealed.
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From the 1997 poem "In Memory of Joe Brainard": In the end, the plague that full swift runs by took you, broke you;— in the end, could not take you, did not break you— you had somehow erased within you not only meanness, but anger, the desire to punish the universe for everything not achieved, not tasted, seen again, touched—; The only love worth saving ends where it began, and always begins—in the imagination.
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"Most people I've talked to who either work for Twitter or who have left the company in recent years, believe that the platform's vitriol and meanness can't be fixed without hurting the company's financial model," Nick Bilton wrote in a recent Vanity Fair article about Twitter's refusal to remove Alex Jones from its website, even after Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Spotify, and other major tech companies kicked the Trump-loving conspiracy theory maven off of their platforms.
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As for Trump's uncivil speech—the insults, the petty meanness, the crudeness, the talk about hand size, the assurance, on national TV, that his would-be Presidential dick is up to the job, his mastery of the jaw-droppingly untrue personal smear (Obama is Kenyan, Ted Cruz's dad was in cahoots with Lee Harvey Oswald, U.S. Muslims knew what was "going on" pre-Orlando), which he often dishonorably eases into the world by attaching some form of the phrase "many people have said this" ( The world is flat; many people have said this.
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