Word: gloating
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...highest court ruled unconstitutional the law he'd pushed through Parliament to grant himself immunity from prosecution while in office. The high-point of his leadership in 2009 - his prompt response to the tragic earthquake near the city of L'Aquila - was not the sort of thing to gloat about. (But he did anyway...
Although FM originally attended to gloat about yet another celeb on our star-ridden campus, the discussion proved to be inspirational—and not just because emminent Professor Evelyn B. Higginbotham condoned all of our HBO watching as an “educational tool...
...entertainment and fashion. (He was sporting a suit with a zebra-print lining.) "We're all about the cutting edge," he said. "I mean, come on. California is wild!" He's right about the schadenfreude, and it was fun to hear him say the word. It is easy to gloat when the cool jock with the hot girlfriend wrecks his sweet car, especially if he seems kind of smug. I was reminded of this during Rob Lowe's talk at the summit, when he declared that everyone has an obligation to join the fight against global warming, then continued...
...high-profile failure bringing relieved smiles to execs at other business magazines? Not so much. More like there-but-for-the-grace-of-God head-shaking. Andrew Serwer, managing editor of Portfolio competitor Fortune, declined to gloat at the news: "I feel bad anytime any magazine closes and people lose their jobs," he said...
Josef Joffe, Professor at Stanford, wrongfully insinuates in the article "Gloat at Your Peril" that the E.U. indulges in schadenfreude about the U.S. financial crisis [Oct. 20]. We all know what the global economy is about. Would anyone be stupid enough to ignore the fact that the entire human body suffers if just one organ gets sick? Helmar W. Kühn, FRANKFURT, GERMANY...