Work requirements are not about results, but about being meanspirited.
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Criticize Trump and there's probably a meanspirited tweet heading your way.
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"The irony and meanspirited nature of the cuts is breathtaking," Gov.
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Immigration activists reject such demands as meanspirited and too far-reaching.
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Advocates for migrants condemned the policy shift as meanspirited and unconstitutional.
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Clinton's comments about Senator Bernie Sanders to be meanspirited and divisive.
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Sympathetic for the meanspirited way that management eventually persuaded him to go.
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This is not only meanspirited and misguided, but it is also dangerous.
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And you're deeply exposed and we're living in a very meanspirited moment.
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A dimwitted, meanspirited spawn embodying the nation's worst flaws, failings and nightmares.
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You are showing yourselves in all your meanspirited, round-headed elitist glory.
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The characters have been meanspirited, but we as the creators have never been.
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And I don't think the American people, the middle class, are meanspirited about it.
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We are governed by a meanspirited, ethically challenged man, and no one seems to care.
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It wasn't meanspirited, but they were always joking around with each other and their classmates.
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A less meanspirited approach might conclude instead that his failing is what made him one.
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But the meanspirited edge is sadly transparent and presents a further cause for public protest.
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But Quick sometimes seems to mock Nanette's pain and pretensions in a way that feels meanspirited.
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Who was Jackson's opponent in one of the most personal and meanspirited campaigns in American history.
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Fox, meanwhile, has given America an overdose of meanspirited right-wing commentary, propaganda and outright lies.
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In that time, the speakers have gotten edgier, more in-your-face and sometimes even meanspirited.
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For one, there are often competing views within a group about embracing an originally meanspirited epithet.
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"His way of roasting was like nobody else's; it was not done meanspirited," Mr. Saget said.
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The second asked her husband to speak with their son about his 4-year-old's "meanspirited" behavior.
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People do not want to work for a man they consider to be overly demanding and meanspirited.
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Neil LaBute has long been accused of being a meanspirited nihilist who does not like his characters.
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The meanspirited criticism of Kondo's techniques by the women of the National Association of Professional Organizers, however, is unnecessary.
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The views expressed by the four senators are not just meanspirited but misguided, for reasons we will explain below.
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Some people loathed the show, finding it a meanspirited mess that mixed too many media to no discernible end.
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" He added that he liked Mr. Baldwin but "his imitation of me is really meanspirited and not very good.
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His books are heart-wrenching, brutal and sometimes flat-out meanspirited, but they are also incredibly beautiful and endlessly poetic.
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Humor engages people on an emotional level and — if it is not meanspirited — it can open them to your message.
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But he had little fear of lewd, meanspirited or even dangerous correspondence — he believes that people have good intentions, he said.
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Americans exhausted by Donald Trump's meanspirited virulence will be unlikely to extend confidence to those who continue to play his game.
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A meanspirited, wealthy young mother, she thinks that her maid has stolen her ring, which is actually inside the missing glove.
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Mr. Trump again described gang members as "animals," mocking critics who had rebuked his earlier comments as meanspirited toward all immigrants.
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Those who oppose Mr. Trump can also be meanspirited; just check out the toxic debate below any of his tweets. Mrs.
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Many thanks to Susan Chira for making me aware that I was as guilty as the meanspirited critics who undermined Mrs.
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For some he is the perennial bad boy, alternately overpaid and profligate or meanspirited and tightfisted, depending on the story du jour.
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But it has also made him the target of critics — including his relatives — who say he espouses meanspirited and even racist policies.
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If this meanspirited dumbing-down succeeds, ostensibly to help America be great again, it will be a triumph of technique over purpose.
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Rick Perry has a bachelor's degree in animal science, but we are not going to point that out because it's simply meanspirited.
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"This is a big victory for Dreamers amid months of draconian and meanspirited immigration enforcement policy," said David Leopold, an immigration lawyer.
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But the terrorism-related ads are the most striking in a slew of negative, sometimes meanspirited messages unleashed by Republicans this fall.
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Democrats may scoff at Republicans' work requirements, but they have yet to challenge the dominant conception of poverty that feeds such meanspirited politics.
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It seems in this context the second "s" is de rigueur, though, as there are a million of these meanspirited songs on YouTube.
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Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, on Monday described the North Carolina law as "meanspirited," and said it would harm the state's economy.
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Mr. Rapp is an undeniably talented actor ("Rent") but his first impression in "Discovery" is one of a meanspirited, patronizing and constantly condescending astromicologist.
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Obamacare repeal has failed again, for the simple reason that Graham-Cassidy, like all the other G.O.P. proposals, was a piece of meanspirited junk.
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The simple fact is that big spending on people who "won't lift a finger" doesn't actually happen in America — only in Hatch's meanspirited imagination.
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But why on earth would you do such a meanspirited thing when your grandchild is possibly in crisis, and you have the means to help?
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This country is a harder, colder, more meanspirited place because these senators would rather bootlick a bully than stand for the principles they once espoused.
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But the proposal has drawn condemnation from Democrats who call it meanspirited and anti-immigration activists who see it as an unacceptable grant of amnesty.
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She described his campaign to discredit her husband as "crazy and meanspirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed," as well as dangerous.
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We live in a world where it's O.K. to say whatever we want, whenever we want, no matter how racist, sexist, meanspirited, demeaning or demoralizing.
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Noxious characters need not produce noxious films, but the meanspirited humor of "Summer '03" is out of place with the perky conventionality of the film's style.
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" However, he added: "To the outside world and even to peripheral people — producers of recitals, stagehands, page-turners — he could be very meanspirited, sarcastic, rather bitter.
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Rather than engage in good faith with movements like Black Lives Matter, Lilla chooses to mock them, reserving a particularly meanspirited sneer for today's campus left.
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In "The Nutty Professor" (Sunday), he is a hapless chemistry professor who periodically transforms himself into his opposite — a slick, meanspirited nightclub performer adored by women.
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The film's meanspirited tone picks on both creatures and humans, like construction workers for being illiterate, animals almost too dumb to survive and the wicked rich.
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Meanwhile, Flanagan spends approximately a paragraph on Chomsky's actual theory, and allots just a few lines to Darwin, who is the other target of Wolfe's meanspirited book.
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ANDREA ECONOMOS White Plains To the Editor: Your news analysis portrays liberals as meanspirited and alienating and Trump supporters as beleaguered and misunderstood based only on anecdotes.
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Let's not forget that the Republican Party nodded to "gay conversion therapy" (which your mom may also advocate) in its platform — which is meanspirited, morally wrong and dangerous.
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Review: In 'Summer '03,' Coming of Age Is More Bitter Than Sweet The movie's meanspirited humor is out of place with the perky conventionality of its film style.
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She said she was enthusiastic about being profiled in The Voice, seeing the article as a way to address rumors and meanspirited gossip about her work in pornography.
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When Republicans embark on meanspirited immigrant bashing, Democrats should take notes from Harry Reid's 213 re-election victory in Nevada and Ralph Northam's 213 gubernatorial win in Virginia.
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Doug Kmiotek's original script, which draws elements from more than one Paddington book, begins with the bear's arrival at the home of his meanspirited human neighbor, Mr. Curry.
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Maybe it was because she had a relative who would sometimes use the word when talking about black people and then laugh, she said, so it did not seem meanspirited.
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They have done so because Republicans have "added a meanspirited twist to these mainstream values" as a way of attacking women's and gay rights, blacks, antiwar protesters and single mothers.
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" Mr. Chaffee said: "I'm old enough to have been around during the last impeachment, and it was just the same as it is now — meanspirited and evil, on both sides.
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The groups described them as meanspirited, counterproductive and costly and said the new policies would raise constitutional concerns while undermining the American tradition of welcoming people from around the world.
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His tweets, including the recent hit-and-miss attack on the mayor of London, show him to be an otherwise meanspirited, incurious and accuracy-challenged chip off the old block.
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I used the word "meanspirited" because many of my conversations with the bank were off the record, and I couldn't include them in my column and I can't describe them here.
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Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who scored a significant victory in Iowa over Donald Trump by staking out the most extreme right, ran his usual meanspirited attacks on just about everybody.
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Critics called the legislation, which was later overturned, a meanspirited attempt to keep regional leaders under the control of Jakarta by having them appointed by local legislatures dominated by major parties.
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I so wish that those who oppose the Democratic nominee and the G.O.P. nominee would express their opposition without reprehensible racial slurs, without totally false statements and without extremely meanspirited condemnations.
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You don't even know for sure there are any, although it would be pretty meanspirited of Mr. Taub to dispense with them entirely and keep the brand the same, wouldn't it?
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" The policies give a series of examples, including content that is defamatory, discriminatory, meanspirited, overtly sexual, encourages violence or includes "realistic portrayals of people or animals being killed, maimed, tortured, or abused.
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Debates often demand balancing acts from participants — to exude strength without being meanspirited, to deliver well-worn platform points with a perceptible authenticity and to be "likable" enough while defending their policies.
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In the Belgian filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael's wickedly amusing religious satire, "The Brand New Testament," God (Benoît Poelvoorde) is a snarling, meanspirited bully who rules the universe from an apartment in Brussels.
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The resulting violence is almost comedically baroque, the special effects at times howlingly crass — blood geysers forth as if every blow has nicked a major artery — but none of it is meanspirited.
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"It seemed a particularly meanspirited and vengeful thing for Congressman Frelinghuysen to do — a man who never had a reputation of being that kind of a bare-knuckles fighter," Professor Baker said.
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"There's a reason things happen," said Mr. Barakett, 218, who admitted that he is finally able to look back and laugh about the misunderstanding caused by a meanspirited Match posting about Ms. Jarensky.
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The fur on their paws conceals appendages so similar to our own that meanspirited pranksters will occasionally leave a skinned bear paw in public to startle people who confuse them with human hands.
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"Build the Wall" became a mantra at Mr. Trump's rowdy rallies, the motto of meanspirited and often cruel efforts to close America's doors to immigrants, especially Muslims or immigrants of color, legal or illegal.
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Over the centuries, various writers have played with the trope, unsettling its easy moralism: the ant can seem meanspirited, the grasshopper the sort of free-spirited artist who enriches our world in nonmaterial ways.
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Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said the bill showed signs of "meanspirited policy-making" by Republicans, as when it called for young minimum-wage earners on the island to take a pay cut.
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" Kyle Pope, the editor of Columbia Journalism Review, pointed out the inevitability of that train wreck, observing that the event itself is "destined to be either sycophantic, on one extreme, or meanspirited, on the other.
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But who among the presidents of the last half-century has been so publicly cavalier about conflicts of interest, so blithe about getting away with whatever grifts he could, so lavishly meanspirited and so proudly rude?
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BOBBY BRIGGS (DANA ASHBROOK) The surly, meanspirited hunk takes a good old log to the head at the Miss Twin Peaks pageant, but recovers enough to be googly-eyed with his girlfriend, Shelly, the following day.
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While the meanspirited Mouse King and his minions have been dancing across stages in various versions of "The Nutcracker," a much more benevolent rodent has been pirouetting under the spotlight in this Vital Theater Company revival.
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In 2016, Republican officials stripped a debate from NBC News after alleging that a previous event, conducted by the network's corporate sibling CNBC, was "petty and meanspirited in tone," according to the party's then-chairman, Reince Priebus.
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The country's attention was focused elsewhere two weeks ago when five justices gave the Trump administration precisely what it needed to put into effect one of the most meanspirited and unjustified of all its recent immigration policies.
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The relationship between all those players can be so fraught that even discussing fan fiction with its real-life subjects is taboo among many such writers, as the spotlight can feel meanspirited, or just beside the point.
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Andrew M. Slavitt, the former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has been trolling Republicans over health care on Twitter, posting hundreds of tweets each week that attack their proposals as meanspirited and wrong.
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DETROIT — After you have spent a very pleasant evening in a shiny new sports arena in a spruced-up neighborhood in a once-decaying city, it feels unduly meanspirited to mention that the place feels kind of empty.
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What started as a sweet dinner invitation turned, on a dime, into meanspirited judgment of other people's marriages, with (if I am not mistaken) a misogynistic streak of blame placed on your sister-in-law for the infidelity.
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More than that, the movie, without abandoning Hollywood feel-good conventions, makes clear that the denial of recognition and opportunity wasn't just some kind of oversight, or the result of the actions of a few bigoted, meanspirited individuals.
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"And there is just something about that Jersey guy attitude — feisty but not meanspirited, tough but not hateful — that has a shot at taking an angry electorate and helping it find a focus and a purpose," the newspaper wrote.
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And even in an industry once known for its boorish behavior and treatment of women, Mr. Trump's meanspirited rants toward the Federal Reserve chair, the late Senator John McCain, and scores of other prominent public figures have landed badly.
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Janet Maslin, reviewing the film when it came out, complained that "many of the jokes are either meanspirited or scatological, or both," and these days the best way to watch it may be with an accompaniment of grub and alcoholic beverages.
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"These are spiteful and meanspirited directives that will only instill fear in the hearts of millions of people who pay taxes, contribute to the economy and our way of life," Kevin de Leon, the Democratic leader of the State Senate, said.
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Let's chalk up these kids' snarky, furiously penned essays for campus newspapers and meanspirited social media posts to the internet's mob mentality, a 20-year-old's clumsiness with rhetorical flourishes, and their deep need to be part of a clique.
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But if Hillary Clinton is almost surely going to be the eventual nominee and if the objective is ultimately to keep the meanspirited Ted Cruz or the fear-mongering Donald Trump out of the White House, shouldn't I vote for Mrs. Clinton?
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Mr. Rosendale, a Maryland native, is such a meanspirited flake that my Republican father, a guy who wants his ashes shot out of a cannon he built from scratch in his backyard gun shop, plans to vote for Senator Tester, a Democrat.
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He proved it this week when he issued an astonishingly disingenuous and meanspirited statement after settling a Title IX lawsuit brought by a student who accused Jameis Winston, the former star quarterback of the Seminoles who won the Heisman Trophy in 2200, of raping her in 2012.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "A Racist Post, a TV Apology, a Trump Gripe" (front page, May 31): The most damaging, insidious and hateful words and actions by President Trump are not the meanspirited, divisive language used against his own government employees as well as the public.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Mayors, Sidestepping Trump, Vow to Fill Void on Climate Change" (news article, June 27): Our cities' mayors have affirmed that Americans will not let meanspirited politics divide us and keep us from creating the world we want for ourselves and future generations.
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After the striking political theater that unfolded Friday at the forbidding border between North and South Korea, it seems almost meanspirited to cast aspersions on Kim Jong-un's motives or to be apprehensive about talks Mr. Kim is expected to have in a few weeks with President Trump.
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And while she rejects the idea that gender has held her back, when the subject turns to the double standard facing Hillary Clinton, she nodded her head, telling a story about a female improviser who thought her notes were meanspirited, but accepted similar ones from a male competitor.
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Lalani breaks the rules trying to do good; her best friend, Veyda, disbelieves and refuses to do her benedictions; the menyoro doesn't know that he doesn't actually know anything; and her uncle Drum and cousin Kul are meanspirited, boorish and nearly as frightening as anything Mount Kahna could offer up.
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"The Canary Flies at Midnight," the first installment in a series of immersive theatrical experiences called Meet Me at the Fountain, will be reprised across the Lincoln Center campus 16 times this weekend, as children seek clues and try to stop a meanspirited culture hater from sabotaging the sound system at a soprano's concert.
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" So it goes on this meanspirited good time — the second single from Mr. Combs's self-titled debut album, which was released last week — that coats all its anger in aw-shucks geniality, with a chorus that owes at least a little something, or more, to Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett's "It's Five O' Clock Somewhere.
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But whether the provisions in the bill are procedural necessities or just incredibly meanspirited, these are some ways they could hurt your family if you: Are planning to adopt a child: The bill eliminates the adoption tax credit, which is worth $5003,2500 per child to parents dealing with adoption procedures that can cost tens of thousand of dollars.
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Indeed, it is interesting to note the difference between the responses to the current release, which are almost entirely positive, and the reactions to the robbery, which involved a surprising amount of meanspirited "you brought this on yourself" backlash (and then a backlash to that backlash, mostly courtesy of fellow celebrities who had experienced the downside of fame).
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The anecdote, in a speech on Monday to a Boy Scout jamboree, was apparently meant to inspire, but the riff on the rise and fall of Mr. Levitt, the creator of Levittown, a planned post-World War II community on Long Island, struck relatives of the developer — and even some Levittown residents — as bizarre, meanspirited and hypocritical.
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Several were high-concept star vehicles that dealt with mismatched pairs: "Nothing in Common" (22011), a reconciliation story with Jackie Gleason and Tom Hanks as cantankerous father and resentful son; "Overboard" (22016), which proposes that a meanspirited heiress with amnesia (Goldie Hawn) can be persuaded to believe she is the wife of a carpenter (Kurt Russell); and, most famously, "Pretty Woman" (2130), a Cinderella tale — and a gigantic hit — set in contemporary Los Angeles, about a hooker with a heart of gold (Julia Roberts) and her Prince Charming, a ruthless corporate raider (Richard Gere).
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Season 1: Episodes 1, 5 and 13 Season 2: Episode 12 Season 43: Episodes 4, 6 and 11 Season 4: Episode 13 Season 5: Episode 12 Season 6: Episode 21 Throughout the series, "The Sopranos" balanced episodic storytelling with more sweeping arcs, as Tony made decisions about how to dispatch some of his pesky in-family rivals: his jealous uncle, Junior (Dominic Chianese); his meanspirited mother, Livia (Nancy Marchand); the brooding ex-con Richie Aprile (David Proval); the obnoxious Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano); the sad-sack Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi); the F.B.I. informants Sal Bonpensiero (Vincent Pastore) and Adriana La Cerva (Drea de Matteo); and even his own judgmental wife, Carmela (Edie Falco).
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