Word: disdain
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...talking man-advertisements. Fee claimed that the Square’s newest residents “drew his ire with unprecedented preposterousness.” Although Bensassi claims that the bank didn’t receive negative comments about its atypical advertising approach, many students have expressed disdain. “It was either us or the machine, and I’m glad man has come out on top,” says Daniel K. Bilotti ’09. Even Frenchie, a woman who lives in the Square, claims “Too many people were getting disturbed...
...spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher." That passage, with its anvil-chorus cadence and utter disdain for any diminution of Christ's divinity in favor of his more mortal aspects, may not be Lewis' most subtle, but it is emblematic of his lucidity and certitude...
...Final clubs are targets for those who are envious of not belonging or for those seldom few who harbor objections to elitism on moral principles. From this envy and disdain, stereotypes have emanated widely. But, at least for Isis, some of the worst stereotypes of Harvard’s private social organizations seem to be proved true—the punch book is an extravaganza of vapidity, cattiness, self-praise, and insecurity...
...greater subservience shown by Muslim wives to their husbands manifests itself in the acquiescent statement, “Yes, Husband.” Or the distaste that numerous Muslim-dominated regimes have expressed for human rights finds its way into a dismissal reminiscent of Barbie’s disdain for math; in this case, The Salient’s imagined Fulla egregiously declares, “Human Rights? That’s silly.” Or perhaps Fulla would appropriate that expression one still frequently hears from Arab pundits and politicians: “Let’s push...
Colbert also follows O’Reilly in placing a series of talking points in the upper right corner of the screen. Colbert shares O’Reilly’s disdain for the media “elite,” but Colbert takes it further—he abhors elitist things like “dictionaries...