Word: contemptible
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Singapore: Raffles Hotel, early 1942. The colonial swells are having a party--black ties, a ricky-ticky dance band lulling them with torpid tunes. As they swill their bubbly, they mutter contempt for the advancing Japanese army in smug racist terms...
...Memphis teenager Brandon Hughes exhibited breathtakingly bad judgement when he walked into court for his hearing on a traffic violation with a packet containing 1.2 grams of cocaine in his jacket pocket. The packet fell out as he was being sworn in. Hughes was sent straight to jail for contempt of court; possession charges are a distinct possibility...
Some of the most watched shows on television--"Homicide," "NYPD Blue" and "Law and Order"--show an "absolute contempt for civil liberties," according to Leonard...
After Galatis' allegations were corroborated by NRC investigators, he encountered only more contempt from management. The prevailing attitude was best summed up, he says, by the supervisor who took him aside and said, "The NRC's only beating us up because of the publicity. This will all blow over." In June, Galatis and George Betancourt, another Northeast engineer who backed him, accepted severance agreements. Galatis moved to Massachusetts and enrolled in Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He expects to enter the ministry...
...will surprise everyone is the dry iciness, the burning coldness of Ormond's Smilla. Up to now she has trafficked largely in vulnerability--melting in Legends of the Fall, perhaps a shade too winsome in Sabrina. Here, she is all contained fury, except for the flashes of anger and contempt that burst without warning from the darkness within. It's not exactly diva acting such as we used to get from the great ladies of the movies' classic era. She achieves her effects with less obvious calculation. But like a Barbara Stanwyck or a Bette Davis, she takes us into...