But when he was wrong, as he often was, he was poisonously wrong.
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Can the highly polarized and poisonously political current Senate show such higher purpose?
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In that, Mary Louise is a poisonously perfect foe because she blames Celeste too.
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But then again, people believe all kinds of poisonously crazy stuff, like vaccines causing autism, without being fired.
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"And they come together really poisonously, when you put when you put death and money together," she added.
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Although she presented a relentlessly cheerful model of femininity on the outside, forever eager to please, she roiled poisonously within.
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History proves that engineering a supermajority on anything in Congress is highly unlikely, especially so in today's poisonously partisan environment.
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She had come to New York without the pedigree or capital that buoys you in a city poisonously obsessed with status.
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On CNN, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin also warned that we haven't been this poisonously divided since the 1850s — and look where that led.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has lapsed into a seemingly endless and useless presidency, centralizing power, punishing critics, and venting poisonously at Israel.
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China could place large orders for American soybeans and corn, while the U.S. could defer the additional 5% tariff poisonously timed for Oct.
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She tells the story of Fulvia, the wife of Mark Antony, who visited the corpse of Cicero, who had poisonously inveighed against her husband.
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But there's a larger issue here: the way that poisonously rigid corporate software, when it meets reality, can cause whole companies to plummet into death spirals.
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If you do start hallucinating while drinking absinthe it's because you are drinking some of the poisonously shit stuff, or because you're a late-stage alcoholic.
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In the poisonously divided politics of 2016 Washington, even suggesting that Israel might have to give anything up in the name of peace involves challenging conservative shibboleths.
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I wanted to start meaningful conversations around gender norms and masculinity that speak specifically to our realities as gay men within a culture that is poisonously patriarchal and deeply homophobic.
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The world has opened up for the poisonously insular mother and daughter of Martin McDonagh's "The Beauty Queen of Leenane," which has been given an expansive revival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Its interspecies romance is decidedly not chaste, and its relationship with nostalgia is pointedly skeptical, with a memorable Michael Shannon turning up as the villain — a government agent safeguarding a poisonously narrow image of America. —A.
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A poisonously funny film that hasn't lost any of its bite — both because of its incisiveness and also because America has only grown more powerful since — it makes for the perfect anti-Fourth of July viewing.
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In truth, there is much to admire in the column, particularly Goldberg's incisive critique of nativists who dehumanize immigrants: Today the conversation about immigration is so toxic in part because we poisonously disagree about what it means to be an American.
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President Donald Trump's surprising new push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — a campaign pledge whose rollout proved poisonously unpopular with voters — was abandoned nearly just as quickly when he tweeted late Monday that any Republican plan would wait for a vote until "right after the Election" in 2020.
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It's because I'm rooting for it — and believe that we deserve better than a leader who uses language as sloppily and poisonously as Trump does, who reacts to every unwelcome message by smearing the messenger, and whose litmus test for patriotism is this and this alone: Do you worship me?
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Indeed, to my mind this is the key difference between those trumpeting the idea of a post-fact culture: that group is essentially nihilistic and poisonously cynical, while academics and researchers (and I am a scholar and researcher of museums as well) want to keep the conversation going, but within what we think are useful and productive boundaries.
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Baldwin Fulford. "The original inscription apparently spoke poisonously of the Roman Catholic Church...at the instigation of a Roman Catholic friend, Dr. Oliver, Col. Baldwin Fulford had the monument restored in 1845, so a new inscription was supplied".
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The resulting stories told the ugly truth about the war. They also soured Guggenheim's relationship with his star, Moyers"...... " When people talk about Mike, that book should leap to mind -- not the naked hoax book. The Vietnam War was a far more deadly hoax, and Mike wrote powerfully to expose it for what it was. In the pages of Newsday, on that poisonously divisive war, John Steinbeck was flat wrong.
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An image of Xiangliu from the Imperial Encyclopedia According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing), Xiangliu (Xiangyao) was a minister of the snake-like water deity Gonggong. Xiangliu devastated the ecology everywhere he went. He was so gluttonous that all nine heads would feed at the same meal. Everywhere he rested or breathed upon (or that his tongue touched, depending on the telling) became boggy with poisonously bitter water, devoid of human and animal life.
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The Will assures Arthur that as this acid was not "poison", it did not disobey his command to refrain from poisonously biting the Piper (being able to choose whether or not to be poisonous, and if so, to choose its type of poison). During Arthur's meeting with the Piper, the Piper notes that the Fourth Part of the Will speaks in a tone that is familiar to him. The Fourth Part of the Will embodies Justice or chastity. At the beginning of Lady Friday the Fourth Part of the Will has joined Dame Primus.
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One of the leading scholars who have critiqued liberal feminism is radical feminist Catherine A. MacKinnon, an American lawyer, writer and social activist. Specializing in issues regarding sex equality, she has been intimately involved in the cases regarding the definition of sexual harassment and sex discrimination. She, among other radical feminist scholars, views liberalism and feminism as incompatible because liberalism offers women a "piece of the pie as currently and poisonously baked". bell hooks' main criticism of the philosophies of liberal feminism is that they focus too much on equality with men in their own class.
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In 1942 the American critic Alexander Woollcott chose it as the best English novel in 100 years,Nigel Dennis, article in Partisan Review, 28 July 1943, reproduced in Stannard 1984, p. 219 a verdict largely endorsed some years later by Frank Kermode. Sykes wrote in 1975 that "there are only five or six novels of this century that can seriously challenge it". In 2010 Time magazine placed A Handful of Dust in its listing of the hundred best English-language novels published since 1923 (the year the magazine began publication), stating: "If this is Waugh at his bleakest it’s also Waugh at his deepest, most poisonously funny".
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The book was heavily attacked by critics upon the publication. Graham Hough of Encounter called it "an adolescent power- fantasy, extremely shoddily written", and wrote: > What is surprising, after the history of the last thirty years, is that even > the naivest masturbations of the most unhappy young man should be able to > take this openly Fascist form. The fact that this performance has been > treated in some quarters with a moderate respect shows that there is a > dangerous vacuum in our present culture that could easily be filled with > highly unpleasant material; though not, I should have thought, with anything > as poisonously silly as this. According to Wilson, Hopkins remained self-confident on the surface despite the book's reception, but was shaken by what Wilson described as "character assassination", as opposed to normal literary controversy.
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It's certainly the worst comedy of the last 20 years". Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter was similarly critical, calling it "grimly depressing, glumly unfunny teensploitation", but admitted that it would "enthrall a portion of the high school/college age demographic it depicts, just as it alternately outrages, confounds and disgusts other, presumably older audiences." USA Todays Claudia Puig found the film treated female characters poorly, labeling it a "heinous, misogynistic movie filled with faceless crowds and nary a character who resembles an actual human being", a sentiment echoed by Melissa Anderson of The Village Voice who felt the film promoted "skull- numbing hedonism without consequences", and "second-nature misogyny", and that the only purpose of the male characters is to "'get high, fuck bitches.'" Robbie Collin of The Telegraph called the film "flamboyantly loathsome on every imaginable level" and was critical of the three lead characters, saying "unlike Superbads leads, these three are poisonously unpleasant, and the supposedly comedic banter between them comes off as bullying.
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