Word: contemptable
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...reactionary proposal is about to do just that. "We have too often believed," explains Minister Toubon, "that relinquishing French was the price to pay to enter the modern world." Perhaps French officials will eventually realize that the "price to pay" is not the French language but rather their petty contempt for foreign cultures...
...that means. His final sentences ring with self-affirmation, declaring that the forces of right will finally triumph over small-town ignorance and evil: "In towns like Lewiston, history sometimes advances at its own uneven speed. But it advances nonetheless." This is not reporting. It is an exercise in contempt...
Pardon my contempt. As the only openly gay person at the Yale graduate school, I paid the career price for my pre-Stonewall candor. Where were all these lesbians when it mattered? They stayed in the closet until tenure--and other people' sacrifices--made it safe to come out and claim the spoils. The then-bizarre themes of my dissertation, Sexual Personae--homosexuality, transvestism, transsexualism, sadomasochism--also ensured that no research university would hire me. I am only one of incalculable numbers of members of my generation whose fidelity to Sixties principles led to their exclusion from the establishment. That...
...science major are supposed to have nothing but contempt for these M.D. wannabes. They clutter our classes. They clutter our classes. The clutter our classes. They flex inanely in section. And worst of all, you can never trust a premed...
...From the gay and/or transvestite side come works that teach the superfluity of heterosexual maleness, indeed the gaucherie of it. These dramas, too, add to the atmosphere of contempt. They are fantasies of disassembled masculinity -- movies, for example, like M. Butterfly or The Crying Game...