It does not matter very much whether the victims of terrorism are described as "non-combatants" or "innocent people", as each term is used in a technical sense, and both refer to those who have not lost their immunity against lethal or other extreme violence by being directly involved in, or highly responsible for, (what terrorists consider) insufferable injustice or oppression.
What some Mexicans consider an insufferable invasion of all things American into Mexican border cities -- where radio stations play more rock-and-roll than rancheros and people eat flour tortillas rather than corn -- Mr. Rodriguez considers a dynamic cultural exchange.
Having said that, that opening sequence—I consider it insufferable.
Communist countries, like Soviet Union and China, that had such space were out of the question as the United States considered communists as insufferable.
Or are your music-consumption habits, in fact, not merely guided but partly shaped by the cultural information that Pandora largely screens out — like what's considered awesome (or insufferable) by your peers, or by music tastemakers, or by anybody else?
As it loops over and over again, that catchy song grows irritating, even dark as your mind wanders to consider just how insufferable it must be to live with a cat who won't stop break-dancing.
How many hours have I spent backstage fretting, knowing that there will be several insufferable know-it-alls in the audience, with their 700 recordings and deeply considered opinions?
Unlike those umbrella-twirling, petticoat-clad temperance harpies of the time (and their equally insufferable apologists of the present day), Thornton considers other social costs of a massive government ban on non-coercive behaviour.
Unlike those umbrella-twirling, petticoat-clad temperance harpies of the time (and their equally insufferable apologists of the present day), Thornton considers other social costs of a massive government ban on non-coercive behavior.
"But perhaps you could consider a hobby like racquetball or Irish hurling before dialing my number again?" Sadly, this call is actually less insufferable than the one that I will receive subsequent to his successful slaying of one of Bambi's descendants.
