Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...With a salvo of new policy initiatives and a volley of contempt against his opponents, Brown gave Labour members a reason to cheer. But by that evening, the delegates' euphoria was ebbing once again, as they contemplated the scale of the recovery needed if Labour is to secure another term...
...French was on his best behavior here. He read from a prepared statement and took no questions. His statement warned that the six people who had received subpoenas and did not show, including Todd Palin, may be held in contempt by the legislature (he didn't mention, though, that the legislature won't be in session to do that until next January). And he explained that seven other witnesses, who have said through lawyers that they too will not appear, weren't given subpoenas because the investigator had relied on the word of assistant attorney general Michael Barnhill that they...
...very dichotomy of its premise reeks of an archaic racial chauvinism. His invectives against the spiritual emptiness of western culture, which he pitted against the fabled purity of the Russian soul, are familiar bromides of Russia’s national mythology, but they barely concealed his contempt for the “atheistic” values of liberal democracy and human rights. As an intransigent Slavic nationalist, he failed to see the roots of Bolshevik violence in the repressive habits of his beloved prelapsarian Romanov Russia. And his smarmy coziness with Putin, an autocrat for whom he had nothing...
...there's a knock on Joel and Ethan Coen, the writer-director brothers who otherwise have enjoyed a quarter-century of critical acclaim, it's that they betray a condescension, almost a contempt, for the people they've created. From the lover-killers in the Coens' first feature, Blood Simple, to the babynappers in Raising Arizona and a raft of Minnesotans in Fargo, all manner of desperately striving oafs populate the Coen gallery of film art. The brothers have been very smart about their characters' being very stupid...
...skepticism about the qualifications of vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin as the reaction of a biased media establishment out of touch with real Americans. "She's not part of the Washington, D.C., cocktail circuit," Steve Schmidt, one of McCain's senior advisers, told TIME. "Elite opinion looks down with contempt at people who are not part of their world." Left unmentioned was the fact that McCain himself has been an A-list member of the Washington élite since he arrived in the capital more than 30 years ago. (See photos of McCain's tumultuous convention week here...