Word: maligned
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...Hajji Mullah Sahib does not so much converse as lecture. Afghanistan's woes, past and present, he argues, are the fault of malign interference by the Soviets and the Americans. Operation Enduring Freedom, he says, is a pretense for manipulating Afghan affairs. In a blink he dismisses the argument that the U.S.-led coalition aims only to eradicate al-Qaeda. "If the Arabs were terrorists, why didn't America just catch them?" he asks, instead of launching...
...game. As long as E.U. policy is perceived as being made by a cabal of unelected Eurocrats and government leaders in closed sessions, voters can be sold the line that the Union is some malign force. The truth is that Brussels is nothing more or less than what the member governments have made it. Optimists suggest that since government figures are among the Convention delegates, scapegoating Brussels will be difficult. Perhaps. But to stymie that temptation once and for all, the Convention will have to figure out how to tether the Union to the hopes rather than the fears...
...they had been as malign as he in their vengefulness, they might better have hoped that he would live on yet a little while. For no death they could devise for him could be as cruel as must have been Hitler's eleventh-hour thoughts on the completeness of his failure. His total war against non-German mankind was ending in total defeat...Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. The suffering and desolation that he wrought were beyond human power or fortitude to compute...
Blake not only despised the way Reynolds painted, but also he was sure Reynolds' malign influence had blasted his career. The sore truth seems to be that Reynolds had scarcely heard of Blake, and would not have felt threatened by him anyway. But time was on Blake's side. Does any Reynolds fix itself in memory with the tragic vividness of Blake's watercolor of King Nebuchadnezzar, a taloned half-beast on all fours, glaring from the confines of his intolerable fate like an animal in a cage? Blake believed he had been appointed by supreme powers to render...
...glossed over. She was a great nationalist, almost a demagogue. But she is remembered most of all as an almost mythical heroine who launched a war against Pakistan and won it. In so doing she created the new state of Bangladesh. If you are a foreigner, you don't malign saints in India...