Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Executive Board of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association would like to express its anger and disdain for the uniformed and ridiculously speculative article "Science Fiction" by Gavin M. Abrams in The Crimson of Friday, October...
...Sant adores characters who are literally too sensitive for words. This recommends his work to the serious younger audience, which tends to mime its discontents by striking sullen poses. But it is not a useful attribute for a maker of sound movies. Neither is Van Sant's disdain for narrative. He got away with Drugstore Cowboy because its band of drugged-out dodoes were engaged in a petty crime spree that almost passed for a plot. But My Own Private Idaho is a different story. Or rather nonstory, in which a pair of homosexual hustlers (River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves...
...actually contact anyone in Mather House? Is it any surprise that the UC is frequently treated with disdain when it cannot even administer its own election properly and consistently...
...There is a fundamental disdain or disrespect for the Constitution," he said. He added that he especially disapproves of modern presidents' constant use of the veto...
Just days after Boris Yeltsin risked his life to defeat the August coup, anonymous White House sources were leaking contempt and disdain for Yeltsin. A week earlier, the man had saved not only his country but the entire Bush foreign policy (which had placed all its bets on Gorbachev) and Washington was already dumping...