In one late poem, "Kommentar," which means commentary, the mood is especially dark, and he says: that never would he write his autobiography because his life seemed to him just so much filth that only a few points, bloody ones he still remembers but that he would never hesitate to reach into the filth to pull out what perhaps could serve as stuff for poetry his disgusting purpose in life.
The word pali (literally, a "line") came to be used in the sense of "text"—in contrast to atthakatha ("saying what it means"), or "commentary"—at some time during the early part of the 1st millennium ce.
That said, the civilly stated but mean-spirited commentary by Drew Westen does a disservice to the president and the people he governs by delivering a one-sided, one-dimensional closing argument that he is a flawed character predestined to fail.
An Apple spokesman says that the company's guidelines now make explicit that that "professional political satirists and humorists are exempt from the ban on offensive or mean-spirited commentary".
14.2 Professional political satirists and humorists are exempt from the ban on offensive or mean-spirited commentary.
Today's article title is meant as commentary on the media's overreactions to the first big round of primary election results (announced last night), and not any sort of supportive call to arms.
Often, our mean-spirited commentary is capped off by the awful expression, "Just sayin'," the polite equivalent of a mobster saying "It's just business, nothing personal," before putting a bullet in someone's brain.
Recognize that there is a difference between constructive feedback and mean-spirited commentary.
They expressed themselves, with more or less reserve, by means of commentaries, sermons, polemic or apologetic treatises, and brief summaries (at most) for the noninitiated.
Ex observationibus G. V. Tychonis Brahe: New Astronomy Based upon Causes or Celestial Physics Treated by Means of Commentaries on the Motions of the Star Mars from the observations of Tycho Brahe … (trans. Donahue).
