Word: contemptable
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...hers. If she stays with Bill Clinton, she sends a message that it's normal for men in power to chase girls and that it's proper to stand by your husband regardless of his lies. By staying, Hillary indicates that women should put up with the kind of contempt Clinton has shown. Leaving would demonstrate that women are no longer willing to be married to self-obsessed little boys who don't know how to keep their pants zipped up. LETITIA MEYNELL London...
Once you've acquired a taste for pate and displayed your contempt for your former philistine friends, you will have finally earned a place among the new Harvard elite. And you'll no longer be a for - eigner, because you will have joined the ranks of the foreign...
Dollhouse exuded a fashionably deadpan contempt for its characters. Happiness shows a deadpan sympathy for its denizens; and since one of them (Dylan Baker) is a child molester, another (Philip Seymour Hoffman) an obscene phonecaller and a third (Camryn Manheim) a lonely woman skilled in the use of kitchen cutlery, this tenderness is challenging. Scary...
...black," says Mitchell, who admires James Brown, Etta James and Duke Ellington. "All modern music is black." She also has nothing but praise for Janet Jackson's song Got 'Til It's Gone, an R.-and-B. reworking of Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi. But she has mostly contempt for alternative rock. "Everybody says Kurt Cobain was a great writer. I don't see it," Mitchell says. "Why is he a hero? Whining and killing yourself--I fail to see the heroism in that...
...great political arsonists; no material in America was more flammable than race. He took his magnificent sneer and slurring menace up North to Rust Belt, hard-hat territory and, as if in a century-delayed retaliation for Sherman's march, he scorched the earth with a message of racial contempt and populist economic grievance. In the 1968 election, he took 13% of the popular vote and won five states...