Word: contemptible
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...cash will pour in from devoted conservatives all over the country faster than you can say "North Carolina barbecue." Helms could announce he's running again just to spite Ted Kennedy, The New York Times and The Raleigh News and Observer - all three of which he holds in equal contempt for their liberal views...
...this role. But she knows more about young American bitchiness than she's telling--or showing--in Blonde. Sometimes, as in Election or the brilliant Pleasantville, in which she was a modern teen time-warped back to the bland, sitcom '50s, her wide-set blue eyes turn cold with contempt for square adulthood. Or squinch up in shrewd calculation of how to use (or abuse) the cluelessness of grownups...
...aftermath a rough-and-ready commitment to a balance of power among neighbors took shape. Kissinger is a noted scholar of the balance of power. And he is suspicious of attempts to meddle in the internal business of others. In a book that drips with devastating, if understated, contempt for the Clinton Administration and all its workings, nothing provokes Kissinger's ire more than America's "humanitarian" interventions in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo...
...force the pace, the U.S. has left it up to Sharon to decide when the various trial periods testing the cease-fire are to begin. And he's plainly in no hurry, as the Palestinians are quick to point out. Indeed, just as Sharon does little to hide his contempt for the idea of Arafat as a negotiating partner, so have some of Arafat's aides begun to openly state their skepticism that any progress towards a peace agreement will be made while Sharon leads Israel. The subtext, then, may be a continuing war of attrition as each side awaits...
...Lear has staved off every major threat with a combination of logic, persuasion, threats to cancel a whole episode (or the whole series), and scathing contempt for the censors' "think-tank mentality," his term for the corporate and governmental attitude that underestimates "how wise-heart a great many Americans...