Word: contemptable
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...heard of killing with kindness? Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) believes in curing with contempt. He is a gifted diagnostician who is fascinated by disease. But patients he can do without. He insults them, talks down to them and forgets their names--when he speaks to them at all. "How can you treat someone without meeting him?" asks a patient's father. "It's easy," he says, "if you don't give a crap about...
...fired. Here are some ideas on how to reunite America's strength with trust and respect. Let's start with the easy stuff. Perhaps 50% of the trouble with American foreign policy during the first term was due to "Rumsfeldism," the penchant for gratuitously riling allies and rivals with contempt or indifference. Like individuals, governments hate to be dissed; treat them with respect, and they will not reflexively refuse what you want them to do. The French have a phrase for it: It's the tone that makes the music. Those of us who know you are confident that...
Howie Carr. Meaner than a junkyard dog, this three-times-a-week Herald columnist doubles as a radio talk show host and is about as even-handed as Rush Limbaugh. Stamping each column with his mark of bitterness and contempt for all things left or even moderate, Carr implicates the entire Herald by association, lowering the “acceptable” bar so that it is physically touching the floor...
...never forget," says Rouse. "It has been burned into my retinas." His fellow Argos officers share their boss's mindset. They wear small gold lapel badges in the shape of a scorpion, the natural predator, they say, of the rock spider - the term Australian criminals use to express their contempt for pedophiles...
...eulogizing Yasser Arafat (Op-Ed, “The Day After Arafat,” Nov. 12), Mohammed J. Herzallah mischaracterizes American and Israeli contempt. As Bill Clinton can attest, Americans willingly forgive charismatic liars; and insincerity has long been a staple of every political process. The hatred towards Arafat can only be understood in the context of why he has “broken many hearts;” in this case a broken heart is not metaphorical, but the direct result of the armaments Arafat used to slaughter woman, children, and other innocents. Arafat deserves to be judged...