Word: strident
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...editorial page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. These two brilliant black people have been waging an epic feud since the mayor took office six years ago. Campbell says Tucker suffers from a "slave mentality" that causes her to be "more vicious than white journalists." She says Campbell is "strident," "vain" and "out of control...
...allow an election that he could actually lose, and it's extremely unlikely that he'd win a genuinely free and fair one." So despite Washington's more subtle approach, it's likely to be a cold, hard winter for the Serbians - warmed slightly by the hope that less strident rhetoric will lead to an eventual solution...
...rare that we are able, as a society, to tell others how we really feel. Thus, telling our friends, families and potential partners what we've been thinking about all these years establishes a bond so profound that even the most ignorant bigot (or the most strident gay activist) can neither sever nor belittle it. It is for these reasons that coming out should be encouraged (when the time is right), and that those considering coming out should receive assistance when examining their thoughts...
...whom is Coming Out Day intended? Although the answer may seem obvious, the Harvard "festivities" are perplexing. What is the value of random, strident and possibly offensive posters? While it is true that existing conceptions of gender and sexual roles must be called into question, it is inappropriate to pursue this goal on Coming Out Day. To challenge an existing structure inherently entails conflict. For a closeted student, inner conflict is a daily reality. Why should he or she leave the safety of the closet in order to add external conflict to that already occurring in his or her mind...
...manufacturers. Why, he asked, should gun companies, instead of the killers, be held accountable for the appalling rate of black-on-black homicide? But that pointed query was merely a launching point for Horowitz's real message: a blanket assault on the alleged moral failures of African Americans so strident and accusatory that it made the antiblack rantings of Dinesh D'Souza seem like models of fair-minded social analysis...