Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theatrical arts. With this knowledge, he combines thematic insights and a knack for manipulating the stage. His dedication and achievements rank him an artist of the greatest integrity. But when people neither understand nor enjoy his production, what is the point? Art? Must art be tortuous to fathom? To disdain those who walk out of a production, to direct a work grasped only by its creator is too easy and risks too little...
...quality uniquely its own. And although its citizens and its history give the facade of being just another southern town. Hazelhurst residents still have aspirations, feelings, sensibilities and insights. The ability to bring these emotions to life in a stark and real way--devoid of northeast condescension and disdain--is what has enabled the so called genre of southern literature to flourish for nearly a decade...
...unborn, anti-abortionists implicitly if not explicitly discount the concerns of the living. Women have historically sought abortions and in this country the practices has become particularly widespread. Concern for life speaks for making these operations as safe as possible--legalized abortion. Nowhere is right to life's disdain for living more ironically apparent than in state and national measures to cut aid for abortions, placing them out of the reach of women for whom they are often truly a necessity. World ecological and economic constraints speak for population control; psychological studies argue against unwanted children; and a tradition...
...find the incongruity between ideology and real life especially disheartening when it distorts feminist thinking. As a model I was occasionally subjected to the criticisms and disdain of women who called themselves feminists. Once, while modeling on a talk show. I introduced myself during a filming break to one of the show's guests, a prominent feminist writer whose latest book I'd perused and brought along to be autographed. She glared at the furs and jewelry and heavy makeup I was wearing, asked my name as she took the book and, with pursed lips, scrawled. "To Maggie--in sisterhood...
Seagull Strikeout The amused tone of your report on the New York Yankee Dave Winfield incident is typical of the disdain that most people show toward gulls [Aug. 15]. They are among the most beautiful of birds, and their flight is one of considerable grace and agility. If Dave Winfield deliberately aimed at the gull, he should be charged with cruelty to animals...