Word: contemptable
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...brilliantly in Election a few years back. Here he's after something deeper. And maybe, if places like Omaha are not bred in your bones, you will grow impatient with the patience he expends on Schmidt, his refusal to satirize him and his dim inconsequence. But not me. The contempt I once felt for Schmidt and his ilk, the men who shaped me and my emotional refusals, was at least temporarily dissolved by this sublime and sorrowful movie, replaced by something that feels a little bit like compassion and a little bit like--dare I say it?--love...
Escandalo. Contempt. Prison. But also, for Alicia, a miracle--a birth and, yes, a rebirth. For us in the audience, there is nothing but bliss as we acknowledge the perfect dramatic balance Almodovar has achieved between his characters' states of being--between hope and fatalism, action and passivity, speech and silence...
...those who characterize his statements as anti-Semitic, made in the same interview in which he declared that settlers “should be shot dead. I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them;” “I have utter contempt for them. They use this card of anti-Semitism. They fill newspapers with hate letters. They are useless people.” Those who dare to disagree with Paulin are “useless” and full of hatred? What is it that Mr. Paulin suggests we do with...
...relationship with a new transfer student, Sedgewick Bell (Emile Hirsch) who joins the class of 1976 at St. Benedict’s and manages to test the patience of the experienced Mr. Hundert with his rebellious antics. However, in spite of Sedgewick’s pranks, contempt for authority and general raucousness, Hundert attempts to cultivate in his student the love for learning he so champions...
This comment arises from a profound respect for the time and commitment required of non-athletic extra-curriculars; supercilious contempt for non-athletes has absolutely nothing to do with it. Also, no one is requiring any of Harvard’s world-class musicians or hard-working newspaper editors to take time off from their favored activities to spend seven weeks running or lifting to better appreciate campus life. In fact, I doubt anyone on this campus could take such a proposal seriously...