Word: deigns
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...nothing called ?practices?) your gifts likely will out. And from time to time in this film I thought I detected , mostly from his silences, just a hint of healthy - and justified - arrogance in Gehry. He does not mention any of his leading competitors and he does not deign to answer his critics. We do not see the artist relating to his clients, engaging in the give and take (and compromises) of that process. Nor does he have anything to say about architecture?s social mission - making a prettier, more soul-satisfying world...
Justice Antonin Scalia deigned to write a dissenting opinion in which he called the decision a “mockery,” claiming that this decision somehow contradicted Alexander Hamilton’s assertion that the judiciary has “merely judgment,” as opposed to a will of its own. Scalia did not deign to explain why Hamilton—or, more exactly, Hamilton’s political propaganda—is more pertinent to the U.S. Constitution than a majority of current Justices, nor how, exactly, the Court might have violated this dictum...
...half-knowledge and misunderstanding?punctured by the rare moment of glorious comprehension?is the space Carey has set out to explore in Wrong About Japan. It's not a journey he expected to take. His 12-year-old son Charley, the kind of introverted preteen who would never deign to express interest in anything, gets hooked on anim?, manga and all things cool that are Japanese. Charley's excitement is enough to inspire his father, and soon the middle-aged literary novelist is parsing the finer points of Akira and Astro Boy. Carey is intrigued enough by this dazzling stuff...
...debates have a great deal of currency in some parts of the country. If students from socially conservative areas absorb the type of rhetoric they hear at Harvard and take it home, they will confirm the notion that Ivy Leaguers are a bunch of leftists who will not deign to even consider opposing positions as anything but ignorant. This lexicon of alienation can take many forms. For one thing, the academy simply doesn’t speak the same language as most Americans, for whom “gender” glosses as “biological sex?...
BILLY CORGAN THE BOOK: Blinking with Fists, released Oct. 1 THE BUZZ: Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky's publisher is pushing the collection by this alt rocker, who packed rage and rhythm into his lyrics for the Smashing Pumpkins CRINGEWORTHY VERSE: Atwixt the twine and flowers divine/ Devise the deign in this copper wane THE AUDIENCE: Art-school dropouts...