Word: faithless
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...visions of a Union Jack-draped coffin on the kitchen table, a knife-wielding Arab assassin, a dead Iraqi child. Instead of enjoying the simple pleasure of skewering a politician, we're suddenly asked to sympathize with a man whose honest intentions have been cruelly scuppered by fate and faithless friends...
...remains unclear whether Benedict was deliberately trying to raise the temperature. Many analysts, especially in Rome, think he knew exactly what he was saying and regard the Islamic section of the 35-min. speech as a brave and eloquent warning of Islam's inherent violence and of a faithless West's inability to offer moral response. Yet Benedict's argument was slapdash and flawed. His sage, Ibn Hazm, turned out to have belonged to a school with no current adherents, and although reason's primacy is debated in Islam, it is very much part of the culture that developed algebra...
...Saunders often borrows from the language and stock characters of mass-market advertising. In the title story, for instance, the disembodied “voiceover” intones its way into scene after scene. It proves protean as it is omniscient. One minute, it is reassuring a man whose faithless girlfriend has been snatched away from him by a giant, apparently biped, Twinkie on-the-run, “not to worry, there’s more than enough sweetness to go around.” The next, it is taking the side of a foul-mouthed, sociopathic nutritional supplement...
...mystifyingly, suggests that single women will vote for Rice because they identify with her marital status and are jealous of Clinton’s. (He doesn’t recognize the possibility that single women may identify with Hillary’s experience of being perpetually humiliated by her faithless husband.)Morris’ analysis of the 2008 race is—to say the least—interesting. But unfortunately, the bulk of the book is spent obsessing about Senator Clinton’s shrill liberalism, ruthless ambition, and emotional instability. (Even at 57, Hillary hasn?...
...Assad government has angrily rejected the U.N. findings as baseless, charging that they rest on the hearsay of faithless witnesses, though a Syrian spokesman has also held out the possibility of giving better cooperation to U.N. investigators in the future. But Syria's problems aren't about to go away. Mehlis says he needs two more months to complete his inquiry because of the Assad government's halfhearted cooperation. That charge gave fresh ammunition to Syria's critics in Washington and Europe, who are threatening to pursue economic sanctions against the regime if it fails to make a full accounting...