Word: contemptable
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...told her she looked really cool." Bernhard's precise ear for the nuances of the language of popular culture works here to almost poetic effect. There are few writers who could put a phrase like "causative day" into a characters' mouth without delivering her up for the reader's contempt. Bernhard retains a sense of empathy, ridiculing the words' inherent silliness while capturing their earnest enthusiasm...
Movies can, and regularly do, cause us to embrace the wildest fantasies. But they create our suspension of disbelief by getting the familiar little realities of life right. When they don't bother to do that, it feels like an act of contempt. Our attention starts to wander and our temper grows short, the way they do when the home team is down 10-zip in a late inning with the bottom of the order coming up. "Do you believe this?" somebody says. "Nah, let's go," somebody else replies...
...speaks fluidly and with candor, and there isn't even a sliver of personal animosity in his voice, but it's easy to detect the contempt with which Clarke views Harvard's institutional opinion of boxing...
...contents? Shapiro suggests that the origins of on-campus criticism are one part anobbery, two parts envy: "A lot of people spend a lot of time on extracurricular publications. We get written about in the New York Times." Inside Edge's coverage "creates a lot of jealousy and contempt," Shapiro sighs. "I guess it's inevitable...
Major General P.H. ("Tienie") Groenewald, retired chief of military intelligence, has only contempt for the President he calls "the biggest traitor we have ever had." For 35 years Groenewald was a faithful servant of the state, fighting apartheid's war against the revolutionaries of the African National Congress. Now, thanks to the concessionary policies of F.W. de Klerk, his enemy is the government itself, likely to be taken over soon by the leaders of the A.N.C. "For the first time, we really realize that we are in trouble," he said. "De Klerk and the A.N.C. have said, 'Unless you accept...