Word: contemptible
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Forgive me for having little in the way of Olympic reflections, aside from a general contempt for those frighteningly tiny female gymnasts and the dirty old men who coach them...
...prone to lecture. In parliamentary debate, his style drove the good solid Tories of the opposition into spasms of rage. His shoulders would sag with boredom at a question, his head would sink down and sidewise and he would begin a soft singsong response to a hostile inquiry, radiating contempt. When aroused, he was a different animal. His chin would jut and he would sneer, spitting out answers...
...clueless TV commentator filling time with proctologist jokes, making awful wordplay when the shih tzu appears. He's the outsider trying fecklessly to gain a purchase on a closed world. He is also, one suspects, one of Guest's inner voices, an assertion of the reality principle saved from contempt by its self-satirizing edge...
...tribes of the Decided form. This is great in many ways--sheer liberation, democracy juiced up to a new dimension. But with a dangerous side effect. To be of the tribe of the Undecided is to belong to a bloodless, dying breed--you are shunned, held in contempt. To be Undecided means you are still looking, suspending judgment, still thinking. A culture balkanized by sound bite does not tolerate the ambivalent--which may mean it does not tolerate certain traditional processes of thought. In a world armed with speedy modems, reason tends to yield to instinct. I have always thought...
...l950s, when parents, especially Mom, sacrificed themselves on the altar of family values and suburban respectability. To today's anti-divorcers those may seem like "good enough" marriages--husband and wife rubbing along for the sake of the children. The kids who lived with the silence and contempt said no thank...