Word: opprobrium
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...perceptions, where the meeting itself is the message. The Chinese are already packaging it as the second normalization of Sino-American relations. To confirm that, Jiang wants to be accorded status and respect, the treatment due the leader of a great nation, signifying not only the end of the opprobrium China has endured since Tiananmen Square but also its emergence as the 21st century's other great power. So Jiang's handlers have been acutely concerned to ensure that his trip conforms exactly to the rules laid down by the last state visit of Deng Xiaoping in 1979, right down...
...spelled niger, early modern English meaning "black in color." There was a time--hard to believe--that the term was considered inoffensive. Over the years, it evolved a huge number of variations, all pejorative, but not, apparently, until the 20th century did it become so execrable a term of opprobrium, especially among whites. Ironically, as Lighter says, many blacks use the N word as an "affectionate, ironic, jocular, or occasional complimentary epithet...
...movie will have women talking to the screen, as Waiting to Exhale and Thelma & Louise did. But at the very least, it works as an antidote to the zeitgeist of the '80s, when middle-aged tycoons and their acolytes could suddenly drop an inconvenient first wife without social opprobrium. Time was, a price had to be paid for dumping wife No. 1 just as her usefulness was fading, the kids were leaving home, and she was learning what the sun can do to your face and gravity to your thighs. Then, if you decamped with the 20-year-old assistant...
...longer content with peddling his noxious racial message in the U.S., Farrakhan has been on a tour of African and Middle Eastern dictatorships, providing aid and comfort to despots whose human-rights abuses and support for terrorism have earned opprobrium around the world. The purpose of his junket, Farrakhan explains, is to discover for himself whether reports in the Western press about totalitarian conditions in these benighted countries are true. His conclusion: oppressing Third World people is O.K. with me unless the oppressors happen to be white, like South Africa's former rulers...
...John became one of the few brave souls to emerge from the huge gay show-biz underground into the glare of publicity and opprobrium. If he suffered a bit less for his declaration than other entertainers might have, it's because his appeal is not primarily sexual; the glitter and sartorial outrage conceal an ordinary, football-loving guy with an extraordinary love of the limelight. For all the tabloid titters, England realizes this; it has virtually made John its official Ambassador of Fun. He has performed for all branches of the Royal Family, and is a favorite dancing partner...