Word: contemptible
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empathy •contempt - "I'll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind!" - of the blustering Michael Steele...
...food, gasoline, all earthly essentials. The grinding deprivation of this grim landscape is superbly evoked by David Thomson, another movie-mad poet, in Try to Tell the Story, his new memoir of growing up in London around the same time as Davies in Liverpool. Davies shows a righteous class contempt for the excesses of Britain's "fossil monarchy," such as "the Betty and Phil Show," his phrase for the marriage of Prince Philip to Elizabeth II. "Even more money was wasted on her coronation... whilst in England's green and pleasant land the rest of the nation survived on rationing...
...Religion," he said at an earlier discourse Saturday, "can be corrupted .... when pressed into the service of ignorance or prejudice, contempt, violence and abuse." He called for a "mature belief in God." The speech at the mosque intertwined theology and a more nuanced view of current events than the purely philosophical discourse in 2006. "Often it is the ideological manipulation of religion, sometimes for political ends, that is the real catalyst for tension and division and at times even violence in society...
...better part of 200 years, conservatives followed a different path. British statesman Edmund Burke was the movement's founder. A fierce critic of the French Revolution, Burke had contempt for rigid ideologues of all stripes and instead attached conservatism to restraint, custom and convention...
Just as Scotland Yard's investigation into MI5 is without precedence, this is the first contempt case brought by the PRT. Privately U.S. officials are angry about what they see as a publicity stunt. Delahunt makes no comment on the case, but says Stafford Smith "has demonstrated again and again integrity and respect for the law ... Defense counsels probably have one of the most difficult and unpopular tasks in any democracy," he adds. "If they didn't take their role seriously and aggressively, then democracy wouldn't function." The substance of Mohamed's claims, which lie at the heart...