Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...antiexpressionist too; painters like Otto Dix, George Grosz or Christian Schad, having survived the 1914 war, and being immersed in the suffering, inflation and political instability of their defeated country, had no time for the cloudy redemptive ecstasies of German expressionism: its inwardness was, so to speak, an insult to the collective. "My aim is to be understood by everyone," Grosz wrote in 1925. "I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a veritable diving bell crammed with cabalistic crap and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionist anarchy has got to stop...
...Reality shows" like That's Incredible! [Oct. 13] that encourage dangerous stunts not only insult the intelligence of the American public, but also encourage the notion that an individual must accomplish some spectacular feat to determine his or her worth. This is a most dangerous idea, emotionally and psychologically, as well as physically...
...Royals' bull pen, on the other hand, proved incapable of stemming the Phillies' late-innings tide. To add insult to ineffectiveness, Kansas City's bull pen was turned into a menagerie in the final game. Philadelphia's Finest stored police dogs in the Royals' left-field enclosure, and Reliever Marty Pattin had to ease his way past a posse of horses when he came on to pitch in the fifth inning. Said Pattin: "I thought we had a zoo out there. The dogs were excited by the crowd, and they were barking and carrying...
...report does, making statements about different groups' relative performance and success on tests and in college and basing these statements only on group identity--Jewish, Black or female, for example--and ignoring any number of other relevant factors that together make each applicant an individual. These conclusions understandably insult students whom the report reduces to faceless members of arbitrarily isolated applicant groups...
...devout Muslim fundamentalist, flatly rejected the offer and criticized Moscow for its opportunism. "Nothing you may give us is worth our freedom, independence and Islamic revolution," he reportedly told the ambassador, adding that Iran had strong objections to the Soviets' arming of Iraq and invasion of Afghanistan. Adding insult to injury, Raja'i allowed the official Iranian news agency, PARS, to release a report on the talks. TASS responded by calling the stories about Soviet aid offers "a lie spread by the imperialist press...