Today in The Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan asks this very cogent question:
"What does good nature cost you?
We should be able to conduct our lives without a constant air of menace."
For the record, menace is not limited to meaning a threat of some kind, but also, according to Dictionary.com, can connote an "an extremely annoying person."
And "good nature," in case we've forgotten, is defined by Dictionary.com as
"pleasant disposition; kindly nature; amiability."
So to Noonan's question, "What does good nature cost you?," I'd like to add, "What does a demeanor, disposition and temperament of menace cost you?"
copyright Barb Harwood
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