Word: scoundrel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel," Samuel Johnson once wrote. Nationalism is a dangerous emotion, first cousin to the kind of extremism and fanaticism that motivates those we seek to defeat. We will lose the fight against terrorism if we embrace any of the same values that motivate it, for then we will have defeated ourselves. In this case, we don't want to meet the enemy and find that...
...greed" and "power," says assistant U.S. Attorney Art Leach. Defense attorney Steve Sadow agrees. But it's the greed and power of the government which "wants to take $50 million away" from his successful client, whom he describes as an "aggressive," "hard-working businessman." Prosecutors, Sadow says, "recruited every scoundrel, every scumbag, every criminal that they could possibly get and have offered them their freedom and money for their testimony...
...screen. Days of Being Wild made him a '60s Ah Fei (shiftless youth) whose mistreating of women is his payback to the mother who deserted him; it won Cheung a Hong Kong Film Award for best actor. In Ashes of Time, cast as a martial-arts scoundrel, he ably anchored a film of top Chinese stars and rapturous visual splendor. In the not-so-gay drama Happy Together he taught Tony Leung Chiu-wai how an actor prepares...
...backing very slowly here into the last refuge of a scoundrel, just give me a moment - the controversies of our day seem, if not innocuous by comparison, then at least pretty much the same old American thing. The dilemmas remain. The Supreme Court in recent days has handed down decisions on gays in the Boy Scouts, Miranda rights, prayer at high school football games, and - disgracefully - on partial birth abortion. Whitman's day had the Dred Scott decision, which denied American citizenship to blacks. The Supreme Court, never truly the last word on anything, has much to answer...
...last year, she was aware of everything occurring. Like so many of the other survivors, she had gone to Lamont to study when the man took a seat in the cubicle next to hers. But cautious Boike turned to look in the window and caught the reflection of the scoundrel slinking to her shoes. "I kept seeing him looking down and doing suspicious things," she recalls. For a solid half-hour, Boike observed as the man worked his feet over her side. "I was too weirded out to do anything. I just kept reading and looking in the window...