Word: contempts
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...film's largest strength is its fully dimensional re-creation of the man's spirit, about which Eastwood is thoughtfully, often amusingly, ambivalent. Huston's love of risk and contempt for caution, qualities that brought out the best in people who co-ventured with him over dangerous ground, are admiringly stated. In one of the movie's best passages, Wilson deliberately picks a fight he knows he will lose with a white racist in an exclusive African club. Sometimes, he says, bloodily staggering away from the encounter, you have to volunteer for losing causes or "your guts will turn...
...deriding the presumed wealthy by virtue of their socio-economic position has suddenly become easy liberal sport. It seems almost un-democratic not to have a deep and vocal contempt for those whose families are on a high rung of the socio-economic ladder. Classism has become cool...
Certain things are immutable. Race. Sex. Background. To dismiss or denigrate people on the basis of an immutable characteristic is unforgiveable prejudice. It breeds contempt and ignorance, and excuses people from responding to the thoughts and reactions of individuals...
Indubitably, the most witty and fascinating of the lot is the black sheep of the group, the Mr. Darcy, as it were, is Nick (Christopher Eigeman). Unlike Darcy, Nick does not find true love in his social circle. Instead, he finds contempt for his straightforward, acerbic criticism of it. Eigeman handles the contradictions of his character with enviable ease, and has dramatic presence remarkable for a novice film actor...
Snobbery, the sport of twits, is nearly dead, shoved rudely aside by ethnic and racial hatreds, homo- and heterophobia, religious and nationalistic furies, yuppie loathing, resentment of California and contempt of Congress. So much truly muscular antipathy whirls about these days that it is hard to care as deeply as you are supposed to -- hard even to remember -- that they won't let your son, the grocery bag boy, into their daughter's debutante ball. Which is why it is hard to care about Geoffrey Wolff's new novel...