Word: maligned
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...amusing concept for most cinemagoers. For many east Germans, struggling to find their feet in the new realities of a reunited Germany, and missing the rigid certainties of life in a totalitarian state, it struck a deeper chord. In retrospect the G.D.R. really didn't seem all that malign, just a bit comical with its puttering cars, camp displays of military might and empty shelves. But now, it seems, east Germans may finally be ready to take a colder, harder look at their communist past. Just as films like Full Metal Jacket and Platoon captured the dark memories...
...well-known American problem, on the other hand, is of the exact opposite nature. The American public and trade deficits are the symptoms of the aggressive macroeconomic policies that have followed the 2001 recession. Left unchecked, they could degenerate into global “malign neglect” if investors’ faith in U.S. productivity is shaken, and, consequently, massive amounts of dollars are sold on currency exchanges. Given the predominant role played by the dollar in transactions and reserves in every economic region of the planet, the collapse of the dollar would risk causing a global financial crisis...
...complex situation and the knee-jerk hysteria that surrounds it—it is hard to interpret the post-resignation public defenses of Summers as anything but angry, reactionary pessimism. Indeed, we should remember that “political correctness” was a concept invented by conservatives to malign progressive attempts to democratize and diversify the academy and to make higher education more hospitable to a broader range of people and ideas. Those who characterize Summers as an undeserving victim of “political correctness” fail to apprehend the real significance of his truncated tenure...
...nuclear issue, I believe they will back Ahmedinajad all the way - up to and beyond economic sanctions. In trying to pressure Ahmedinajad to retreat, the West risks making him politically stronger; he can portray himself as a determined and indomitable leader who stands up to the mighty and malign forces of the West. The more the West makes him out to be a villain, the more heroic he will seem to his domestic audience. Don't expect him to back down anytime soon...
...Hwang highlights the obvious truth that outside powers have inflicted great harm upon Korea, playing a major role in its painful division. But to a foreign reader his apparent conviction that the malign influence of Westerners should absolve Korean participants of their own guilt in the bloodshed is perplexing. This sentiment?it could be summed up as "the foreign devils made them do it"?may be comforting to Korean readers eager to overcome the burdens of their tortured history. But Hwang's determination to smooth over the ugliness of the past may doom his book to a far less enthusiastic...