Word: contemptable
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...fulfill Noble's stipulations that the lecture present Jesus as "the Way, the Truth, and the Life," that it inspire people to "the joy of service for Christ," or that it present the "personality of Jesus, as given in the New Testament." Spong is famous only because of his contempt for the New Testament's portrayal of Jesus and for his denouncements of anyone who claims that Jesus is "the Truth...
...typically detained briefly while Russian reporters are often detained at length," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Even reporters for state-owned television have been detained. This is the blunt edge of the news blockade." But Babitsky's case came to represent a new low in Moscow's contempt for the media when the Russian military announced, last Thursday, that it had turned the journalist over - supposedly at his own request - to Chechen guerrillas in exchange for two captured Russian soldiers...
...Such frustrations apart, familiarity with the Army has not bred contempt, or at least not much. All the answers were not, as it turned out, to be found among the heaps of rules and procedures and training manuals that we waded through every day. Nor in the distant and anonymous warrior-bureaucracy. Rather, the virtuous were nearby and all had faces. Recruiters take note: It is a powerful selling point, to get to know these drill sergeants and lieutenant colonels and soldiers who patrol this encased little corner of the world. I bade them all farewell with real fondness...
...seems not to grasp the role televised debates play these days. They are no longer pro-bowl versions of high school oratory contests; increasingly, debates are the arena itself, where most of the winning and losing and living and dying of candidates takes place. His contempt for Gore just looked like bad manners, but his message that the whole ugly process of becoming President was beneath him just looked...
...people." "Let me explain to you, Al, how the private sector works." At such times, Bradley looks at the Vice President as if Gore had suddenly morphed into an overripe mackerel; Bradley's voice, normally so flat and affectless, drips with sarcasm and a condescension that borders on contempt. Because to Bradley, who really does see himself as a better class of politician, Gore is an opportunist driven by ambition instead of principle--the kind of candidate who will demand on Wednesday that his Pentagon leaders support gays in the military, then backpedal on Friday. "Bill sees Gore...