Word: contemptable
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...bomb, as, I must admit, I was hoping he would. Because that would have meant pulling off a surreal, star-befuddling, one-time-only performance. Instead, he gave a safe, caretaker performance that was hardly a performance at all. True, his funniest jokes were laced with a measure of contempt for the industry (on the awards' use of the phrase, "The Oscar goes to..." rather than "The winner is...": "God forbid anybody should think of this as a competition. It might make the trade ads seem crass"). But Martin is thoroughly L.A. at heart, and he kept the crowd safely...
...government's crushing of riots in the predominantly Christian central highlands?looks to some like Hanoi is thumbing its nose at American human rights concerns. "It's just vindictive," fumes Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican on the committee who is vowing to block ratification. "It basically shows complete contempt?for human rights and for the United States...
...While raving about foreign meddling, Mugabe continues to show contempt for the rule of law and the independent opposition to his disastrous policies. The government has demonstrated little interest in investigating the bomb blasts that last month wrecked the presses of the Daily News, an independent Harare newspaper known for its bold opposition views. After the Supreme Court upheld appeals by white farmers for an end to the illegal seizure of their lands by militant squatters, Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay was forced to resign while four other High Court judges are under physical threat from the militants to quit...
...transatlantic cultural overlap may obscure enduring differences. "We are so interwined in our minds that we expect to be more similar to one another than we really are," says Guillaume Parmentier, head of the French Center on the United States. "Familiarity, in this case, breeds not exactly contempt, but it can breed misunderstandings." Still, the web of economic and cultural connection across the Atlantic is so vast that it's hard to envisage how political ties could fray past the danger point...
...anything, executive behavior such as this corresponds with a well-established tradition in American politics: take care of the one-quarter of one percent that provides half of your politcal subsidy. Thus, exhortations like yours, while laudable in nature, are sure to meet with contempt in our system...