"This is pretty aggressive and pretty abusive.
Once it became clear Bryant would say nothing at all about the incident, a giggling Kimmel asked Kobe: "Hey, did you see the movie Whiplash?" Bryant has seen the movie, and yes, he also says he somewhat identifies with the abusive music teacher J.K. Simmons plays in it.
Faced now at dinner with a drunken, abusive Thurber — and his somewhat less drunk but equally abusive wife — I was totally thrown; whatever I had expected, it wasn't King Lear in the Italian Pavilion spouting invective about a publication and an editor I so admired.
He was well loved until his parents divorced, when he was nine, and he wasn't so badly treated after that; his mother was self-involved, his father uncommunicative and somewhat authoritarian, but neither was anything like abusive.
This was particularly obvious for abusive drinking (OR = 2.11), with a somewhat lower risk for drinking frequency (OR = 1.46).
While acknowledging Hamet was strict, distant and disapproving of his son's early passion for dancing, Kavanagh tries, somewhat unpersuasively, to cast doubt on the charge that he was abusive.
But the gender difference was somewhat lower for frequency of drinking (OR = 1.58) and higher for abusive drinking (OR = 2.29).
But as many of you know, I'm new here, and come from a somewhat more rough-and-tumble corner of the Internet, where comments, even those that could be considered both off-topic and abusive, appear without question.
When she was state treasurer in the early '90s, her employees complained that she was abusive, and today Matt Mackowiak, who resigned last April as the senator's press secretary, admits that she can be "somewhat needy and demanding".
A facet somewhat explained by the comic's tragic backstory, in which he accidentally shoots his own brother while defending him from their abusive father; it'll be interesting to see if the little girl seen in the first look serves a similar purpose here.
