Word: epithet
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...starters, they--the universal epithet--are liars. Besides Franken, David Corn holds forth for 337 pages on The Lies of George W. Bush; Coulter followed Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right with Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. They are also elitists and exclusionary. Writes Ingraham in Shut Up & Sing, liberal elites "think where we live--anywhere but near or in a few major cities--is stupid." (Ingraham, says her "About the Author" note, "lives in the Washington area.") They control the media--notwithstanding the best seller you are holding...
Even a dim understanding of political posturing reveals that Bush was intent on uncompromising unilateralism. To call him a “dove in hawk’s clothing” is a puerile epithet whose sloppiness would make even the most avid of Bush’s spin-doctors cringe. Bush went to the U.N. as a token gesture to garner political points by convincing the naive that he was intent on multilateralism. It was a ploy made all the more transparent by Bush’s obstinacy to granting even trifling concessions over inspection timing and oil-rights...
...Setting aside a fixed number of ‘slots’ for which racial minorities are eligible would be a forbidden racial quota,” Summers and Tribe wrote in the op-ed. “But that epithet does not fairly describe Michigan’s policies...
King said that he and his teammates were alarmed at what he called Penn’s “absurd assumption” that athletes might have trouble identifying the use of a derogatory epithet as racist...
Bill Bryson doesn't look like a troublemaker. With his corduroy jacket, woolly pullover and roughly trimmed beard, he seems more the mild-mannered, professorial sort than a travel writer famous for his savage wit. This is, after all, the man who dismissed Australia's capital with the epithet "Canberra? Why Wait for Death?" Of Bradford, England, he opined that its sole purpose is "making every place else look better by comparison." And he doesn't hesitate to skewer his fellow Americans. Bryson's first book, a 1989 exploration of small-town U.S.A. called The Lost Continent, included the following...