Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Abrams said the Court should adapt its theory to its practice by asserting that the First Amendment protects the press's right to complete immunity from contempt citations in its coverage of trials...
...already perceived about the fellow in the White House. But in the Democratic race, where voters still have trouble telling most of the candidates apart, it is sometimes more effective to define a candidate by tearing a rival down. With Dole and Bush, their very familiarity may breed not contempt but indifference. What better way to distinguish oneself than to take the other fellow down a peg or two? In the end, any real debate can get lost in the static...
Perhaps. But he may very well have spent his life spoofing politics and the non-philosophers who dominate political life. The political philosophy of Socrates thus is, oddly enough, anti-political. Only the philosophical life of contemplation is, ultimately, above contempt...
...before the ink had dried on the final tallies of yesterday's vote, Americans--from voter action groups to political science classes--had voiced their contempt and outrage for the Iowa caucus...
...really dead. In August, when former ABC Newsman Charles Glass escaped from terrorists holding him hostage in Lebanon, Rather sounded a jarring note of skepticism, referring to Glass as a "young American who says he was a hostage." ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel called the characterization "beneath contempt...