Word: contempts
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...characters are only skin deep, if they go even that far--usually they stop, on purpose, at the make-up. Talleyrand said of those who were born after 1789 that they could never really know how good life could be. The same feeling--a combination of nostalgia, snobbery, and contempt for the newfangled present--permeates Stavisky. The final value judgement on this feeling, though, is thoroughly ambiguous. The life of a fake Parisian millionaire in the thirties is attractive, but are we meant to be seduced or purged of our attraction...
...their credit, the voyagers treat their predicament with the contempt it deserves. While describing the weather to Mercier, who cannot bear to look, Camier insults it in the careful cadences of French primer prose: "A pale raw blotch has appeared in the east, the sun presumably. Happily it is intermittent, thanks to a murk of tattered wrack driving from the west before its face...
...chambers at one time were done in shocking pink, Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Noel Cannon often chose language that was decidedly blue. She once inquired in the vernacular whether guards conducting a search had looked up the rectum of a lawyer whom she had just jailed for contempt. On another occasion off the bench, she threatened to give a traffic policeman "a vasectomy with a .38." To round out her reputation, she sometimes heard cases with her pet Chihuahua in her lap, and for a while had a toy canary that punctuated lawyers' arguments with mechanical peeps...
Muhammad denied that he promoted hatred toward whites. If not hatred, it was contempt: whites were "the human beast-the serpent, the dragon, the devil and Satan." The white race, he taught, had been bred 6,000 years ago by a black scientist. In an insanely logical moment, the Nation of Islam once invited American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell to a meeting and heard him laud Elijah Muhammad as the "Adolf Hitler of the black...
...hoping to get just enough money to last until the rainy season starts in June, hoping the Khmer will then agree to a compromise peace before the rains stop. The policy is doomed. The Khmer have no reason to negotiate. They have all the strategy advantages, and nothing but contempt...