Word: contemptible
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...workers (Paul Rudd, Romany Malco and Seth Rogen)--once they discover his chaste condition--become determined to cure it. But although they are experienced, they're not what anyone would call mature. No less than Andy, they live in fear of women, although they express it as contempt. Emotional virgins, they would be incapable of offering, as he does, a plausible and rather wistful little speech about how he happened to give up in his efforts to woo and win girls. (Instead he has built up a world-class collection of action figures, "all in their original boxes.") Luckily, Trish...
...contempt?fell then. Court was adjourned over the weekend. The lawyers retired to their respective camps on opposite sides of the valley and bombarded one another with resounding statements to the press. On the Monday when Darrow entered court, he was informed by Judge Raulston: "He who hurls contempt at my court insults the great Volunteer State, . . ." and requested to make bond for $5,000 pending a hearing for "contempt and insult...
...Bouyeri, 27, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin, made a surprise statement at the close of the trial. Clad in a black jellaba and Palestinian-style black-and-white kaffiyeh head scarf, Bouyeri aimed his words mainly at Van Gogh's mother, Anneke, who had expressed her anger and contempt for the defendant a day earlier. Calmly, remorselessly, he insisted on the righteousness of his act, repeatedly stating he would do the very same thing again if he got the chance. Bouyeri said that in his worldview, there is a "law that instructs me to chop off the head...
...obstruction of justice. It had to be something serious, they suggested, for Fitzgerald to have interviewed the President and Vice President, to have threatened Cooper with prison time if he didn't testify and to have insisted that New York Times reporter Judith Miller go to jail for contempt of court when she refused to. Much about Fitzgerald's hunt is still a secret: in the court ruling demanding that the reporters reveal who leaked Plame's name, several pages were blacked out for national-security reasons...
...city's relationship with its past that fascinates me: of the great cities of the world, only Rome and Cairo can even begin to rival New Delhi for the sheer volume and density of historic remains; yet in New Delhi, familiarity has bred not pride but contempt. Every year, more ruins vanish, victims of unscrupulous property developers or unthinking bureaucrats. Sometimes no other great city seems less loved or cared for. Occasionally there is an outcry as the tomb of the Mughal poet Zauq is discovered to have disappeared under a municipal urinal or the haveli courtyard house...