Word: contemptible
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...columnist, Kelly was known for his incendiary attacks on political elites. His contempt for the sanctimonious excesses of liberalism and his open loathing of Bill Clinton endeared him to conservatives, but Kelly's true enemy was the arrogance of power on all political sides. He wrote with a passion that reflected his love of language and its possibilities. As an editor, he earned the devotion of colleagues with his generosity and good humor. He would spend hours with a young writer, explaining how and why he made each sentence better. He dictated his last column from Iraq over a satellite...
...irresponsible rhetoric that poured forth from the Bush administration revealed an utter contempt for the U.N. and its constituent nations. It is little wonder, then, that the world did not graciously prostrate itself before U.S. war mongering...
...American government made no attempt to camouflage its contempt for the French alternative to war in Iraq, disrespecting and offending much of the international community. In engaging in debate with the U.S., France was simply questioning the means to best solve the Iraqi problem. On March 16 French President Jacques Chirac said “we are not anti-American…but if there is a friend or somebody I dearly love, and if you see that they are going down the wrong path…then friendship demands that we tell that friend, that we warn...
...author of vivid historical novels of social justice, including Citizen Tom Paine and Freedom Road; in Old Greenwich, Conn. After refusing a request from the House Un-American Activities Committee to provide details of an antifascist group, Fast, a Communist Party member from 1943 to 1956, was jailed for contempt and blacklisted. He turned the experience into Spartacus, the story of a slave revolt in Rome, which became a 1960 Oscar-winning film...
...shame that supposedly wise people would hold such negative opinions of a place they have never been to and know little about. I can’t, however, totally condemn those who view the Midwest as a cultural latrine. It is merely a matter of ignorance breeding snobbish contempt. I can play the Robin Williams to you all’s Will Hunting and tell you, “It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault.” It’s not your fault that your quest for cultural understanding...