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Some viewers will know Rapaport from his decadeslong acting career but also that one very irritating season of Justified; others will know him for his anti-Palestinian rants and hatred of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.—
Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
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This is not to say that rape can be separated from the hatred of women, just that, in certain situations, the role of the victim can be violently reassigned.—
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Every day, Trump exhibits his contempt for laws enacted by Congress — and for the Constitution itself.—
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Crosland also represented Troconis on contempt charges and successfully had those offenses dropped last June.—
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There were no scrums, barely any big hits and absolute zero sense of disdain from one bench to the other.—
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Later, amid speaking about his own wife, interview guest Josh Charles joked about Goldberg's disdain for the previous topic.—
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My generation deserves better leaders than the ones teaching us that bigotry is bravery and hate is just a joke.—
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What Marissa does doesn’t come from hate.—
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At the opening, Natalie, bored and filled with loathing for her parents, flees her family home by retreating into imaginary worlds of vivid, eroticized violence.—
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There’s an aspect of self-loathing here that Visser leaves alone.—
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These findings echo a broader pattern political scientists call affective polarization: the replacement of disagreement with abhorrence.—
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When human decency and basic civility fall victim to partisanship and ideology, and abhorrence of violence becomes tempered by political aims, monstrosities and tyrannies become possible.—
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Prosecutors could not prove malice in the case.—
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Some commenters did acknowledge a minority viewpoint, suggesting the conflict may stem from differing perspectives rather than malice.—
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There are cheerful barging amateurs, happy to be bounced about, and there are prowling malevolences, waiting for the moment to blindside someone or chuck an elbow in their face.—
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Technical contributions are aces: Robert Richardson’s garish but subdued lighting clues us to the malevolence beneath the glitter, while Thelma Schoonmaker Powell’s editing perfectly punctu ates the frenzy.—
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“Lovelessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lovelessness. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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