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They are predatory expressions of aggression.
The program features a series of epigraphs from various Shakespeare scholars and directors that are dappled with words we don't usually associate with rom-coms: "nihilistic" (Harold Bloom), "expressions of aggression or sexual hostility" (the scholar Carol Cook).
If Putin isn't always pleased by his more strident expressions of aggression and intolerance, he surely finds something useful in his role as the bogeyman of Russia's political system, and, in any case, he lacks the ability to control Kadyrov's every move.
From the outside, it is easy to underestimate how much of North Korea's threats and bizarre expressions of aggression reflect its sense of vulnerability and wounded pride, its frustration at the isolation and the failure that have characterized so much of its history during the past century.
Instead of arming schools and alarming students in anticipation of such rare events, we need to address the lesser and much more frequent expressions of aggression, like bullying and sexual harassment, and we need to include students in our efforts to create more supportive, trusting and child-centered schools.
It is interesting that one of the most common verbal expressions of aggression in the English language, "Screw you!" -- and its more colorful alternative--allude to sex.
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It can be an extreme expression of aggression.
It was an expression of aggression and raucous celebration.
In Addams's cartoons, mordancy was an authentic expression of aggression.
It is a curious combination; punk is typically seen as an expression of aggression, whereas Buddhism espouses compassion.
Various customs controlled and repressed the direct physical expression of aggression within the kin group and the tribe up to a point, but there were definite boundaries of behaviour beyond which only violence could restore status or assuage injured pride.
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