Search Details

Word: contemptable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...interview experience is at all typical of the way your investigation was conducted, I must conclude that your reporters were grasping at straws. I suspect that my comments and those of many other interviewees were grossly distorted in order to articulate a preconceived contempt for the Core program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Core Series Created a 'Straw Man' | 5/3/1994 | See Source »

HAITI. The Administration's inability to devise any strategy for returning freely elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power, while a trade embargo impoverishes the populace without dislodging the renegade government, has earned the contempt of both sides. From his exile in Washington, Aristide last week denounced Clinton's policy of picking up would-be refugees at sea and sending them back as "racist" and a signal that American leaders "don't care." Six members of Congress got themselves arrested on the White House lawn for protesting the refugee policy. The Administration had earlier said it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropping the Ball? | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...please," I said with the contempt reserved only for preforsh, "Give me a break. Are you liberal or conservative...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Bleed On, Liberals | 4/30/1994 | See Source »

...Nixon's contempt for the principles that our government is founded upon were never more clear than on an October night in 1973 when he ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, in what became known as the "Saturday Night Massacre...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Rose Colored Glasses | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...Pulitzer Prize winner, Archer goes from holding Barnes in utter contempt for his inane renditions of Muncie Business College fight songs, to wanting him for his off-the-cuff stereotypes of 1950's career girls. That stupid remarks just happen to encapsulate her real character is funny for a moment, but no one wants her to be undone by it. Tragically, for the audience as well as for Leigh, Archer never reacquires her edge or her interest. She ends up a poster pin-up waiting for her man to show some courage while cheers him on from backstage. The transformation...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: 'The Hudsucker Proxy' Stands in for Real Satire | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

Previous | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | Next