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  • It seems from a deepseated inner inferiority coupled with a failure to fit in and achieve in the real world.

    Think Progress » Fox News commentator Geraldo Rivera criticizes Bret Baier’s Obama interview. 2010

  • Yet, I fall prey to deepseated destructive habits and fearful self-obsessions instead.

    Ethan Nichtern: Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's Utterly Disappointing Worldview 2009

  • The "town meetings" that are now spewing such anger reflect deepseated fears that are welling up across America during this economic crisis.

    Sarah Palin's Death Panels Robert Reich 2009

  • The Republicans are showing their vengeful mentality by trying to submarine the ideas and plans Obama is trying to put forth to sove some of the deepseated problems we now face. jim vicalvi

    Romans' Numeral 2009

  • With the OJ Simpson case, even though there was a complete irrationality in the perception of OJ's innocence or some grand conspiracy, at the root of this irrationality as it applied to OJ was a deepseated mistrust in the law enforcement community and the justice system that was well founded.

    Archive 2007-08-01 xtra 2007

  • Consensus exists, no matter what deepseated differences also exist, as I demonstrated above.

    The perfect phrase - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • The "town meetings" that are now spewing such anger reflect deepseated fears that are welling up across America during this economic crisis.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Robert Reich 2009

  • With the OJ Simpson case, even though there was a complete irrationality in the perception of OJ's innocence or some grand conspiracy, at the root of this irrationality as it applied to OJ was a deepseated mistrust in the law enforcement community and the justice system that was well founded.

    Michael Vick and Race xtra 2007

  • I don't get this attitude--it's more than an attitude: this deepseated conviction--I really don't, and I wish I could make it go away.

    On Not Having Faith Becca 2008

  • I don't get this attitude--it's more than an attitude: this deepseated conviction--I really don't, and I wish I could make it go away.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Becca 2008

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