New Yorker (May 26)
“Big Oil’s Bad, Bad Day.” On May 26, “crushing blows to three of the world’s largest oil companies… made it clear that the arguments many have been making for decades have sunk in at the highest levels.”
New York Times (July 7)
Germany has fallen “back in love with Angela Merkel.” She has recovered from “crushing defeats in regional elections” in 2018. Successfully containing “the pandemic has burnished the chancellor’s reputation as one of the country’s best leaders.”
Tags: Burnished, Containing, Crushing, Defeats, Elections, Germany, Love, Merkel, Pandemic, Recovered, Successful
The Guardian (June 21)
“There have been so many reasons to feel embarrassed about Donald Trump:” from porn stars to drinking bleach to kill the coronavirus. “But nothing truly comes close to the embarrassment of his so-called comeback rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday. It was so toe-curlingly cringeworthy, such a crushing humiliation. There are 80s pop bands who have enjoyed greater comebacks than Donald Trump.”
Tags: Bleach, Comeback, Coronavirus, Cringeworthy, Crushing, Embarrassed, Humiliation, n Tulsa, Porn stars, Rally, Trump
