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A personal attack is an insult which is directed at some attribute of the person. The Federal Communications Commission 's personal attack rule defined a personal attack as one made upon the honesty, character, integrity, or like personal qualities [ 16 ] in the Communications Act of 1934 .
An example of a spontaneous frown used to express displeasure. In social settings frowns are most frequently used to express a range of negative emotions including anger and displeasure.
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
George Puttenham in the 16th century described what he called “a mock with a scornful countenance as in some smiling sort looking aside”. [5]"A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffling activity of the body, are strong indications of futility," the Earl of Chesterfield once wrote in a letter to his son.
Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
Vince Gilligan, the creator of "Breaking Bad," has expressed concern about writers making villains "aspirational" in an age of "real-life bad guys."
Emphasis on this aspect of their teachings led, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, [22] to the modern understanding of cynicism as "an attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others."