Word: contempts
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...novelist, unlike Buckley the columnist and lecturer, is not out to score debating points. But there are some targets of opportunity that are too juicy to overlook. An American Communist lawyer, representing a captured Soviet spy, aggressively defends his client's civil rights in a manner that bespeaks contempt for America and its democratic institutions. Fiction, as the busy Buckley illustrates once again, allows a more leisurely and richer development of irony. - By R.Z. Sheppard
...machine. It is rusty, inefficient, temperamental and stored in the basement, where it is the object of not very affectionate contempt around Atlanta police headquarters. No, it is not a disused mimeograph; it is, in fact, the vice squad. Therefore its components are human beings, full of complaints and crotchets and in need of something more interesting to do than process the night's haul of pimps and prostitutes. They are also in need of a light coating of respect...
...best in the context of her intellectual growth. Tracing her own inspiration to one professor of history and two of literature, Tuchman recalls that their common characteristic wan an unbounded, almost torrential zeal for knowledge. (Of the historian, a classicist and anti-romantic, she writes: "His contempt for zeal was so zealous, so vigorous and learned, pouring out in a great organ fugue of erudition, that it amounted to enthusiasm in the end.") Passionate fervor, Tuchman observes, is one quality indispensable to a good historian; the other is ability--innate or trained--to write...
...overpowering even when her acting skills are not. She is a master strategist of expression. Her voice has a narrow range, yet her use of it encompasses dismissive contempt, romantic yearning, intellectual excitement, absolute shock, quivering pain, girlish ardor and the unbridled anger of Zeus...
...first shown to her and the ever compliant Fisher, they thought it was so bad that they threw their drinks at the screen. She felt more at home in Cleopatra, but off-camera she quickly fell under the spell of Burton, her Antony. He, in turn, held her in contempt, at least at the beginning. As Fisher-not the most objective source, to be sure-tells the story, Burton was mainly interested in latching on to the international fame that Liz so abundantly had. "You don't need her. You're a star already," Burton supposedly told...