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A culture of pettiness and derisiveness is conducive to unhealthy behaviors, and both are factors in developing chronic incivility and bullying.

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General Assembly, he indicted his own country, as I chronicled at the time, ''for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness (toward Europe), for maltreatment of natives, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo, for unilateralism, and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world.''

Wistfully, Fuller notes that since Mariana she has "never seen a Bandit's Bride." With perhaps a certain derisiveness, she notes that Sylvain has remarried, this time to a "fair and laughing girl," in contrast to the dark and willful Mariana, a rather pointed line that is another instance of Fuller's exploration of gendered conflicts through racial metaphor (61.) She then provides a poignant eulogy in the form of a lengthy poem modeled on the "beautiful ballad, Helen of Kirconnel Lee which includes several moments worth considering as quietly insistent declarations of kinship with the doomed, dead Mariana:

Should these letters' derisiveness be taken at face value or, given the artifice already noted in the letters, should they be read as affectionate instead--that is, as a kind of lovingly jesting parody within a parody?