Word: contemptible
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...Godard's visual masterpieces every Thursday night, offering up a feast of his experiments in spastic editing, hand-held shots, and stories about outsiders who pop up in each others' lives like secret figures in video games. The repertoire ranges from gangster spoof to existentialist poem. Breathless, Alphaville, Weekend, Contempt and Pierrot le Fou, among Godard's most famous films, are all featured, in addition to many of his lesser known works...
...until he had made enough unbiased observations to write a book that would forever transform medicine's image of the human structure. Vesalius was 29 when it was published in 1543. The anger first directed against him for daring to defy Galen's teachings was matched by his own contempt for those who took so long to accept the validity of his work...
...what retired police chief Joseph McNamara says is true, then I'm more frightened than sick. McNamara stated, "The message of politicians to police that they are soldiers in a war may be driving these angry and violent expressions of contempt. It is common in war to dehumanize the enemy. And all wars produce atrocities." If that's what police officers think, it's no wonder that some are seduced by the power a police badge can bring. Officers who adhere to that sort of philosophy end up creating wars of their own where there were none before. I have...
Many very modern students have positive religious views which embrace both modesty and deep respect for one's colleagues. To portray these students as judging, or having contempt for their "modern" classmates is an error. Zachary L. Shrier...
...which he shares the Queen's box. Still, the British government has for years denied his requests for citizenship without explanation. Al Fayed also deeply resents a 1990 government report criticizing the financing of his takeover of Harrods. The cold shoulder of his adopted home reflects, he says, contempt for Britain's fast-growing immigrant population. And ingratitude as well. Al Fayed has invested almost $500 million in Harrods since he bought it in 1984, and he has given generously to British charities. "You don't want to work hard for 40 years and have a bunch of crooks...