Word: disdain
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...whiteness: love of Joni Mitchell. A fondness for the Midwest. A taste for soy milk, vanilla flavored. Tendency to be underdressed at any event. Disdain for black-eyed peas. The ability to dwell, for long spells, in a world not eclipsed by race. Skin, eyes, hair. My mother...
...Furthermore, the Independent Spirit Awards have a kind of hipper-than-thou ambiance, a disdain for the big system. While this is no bad thing in itself, the tone is often that of a convention of prissy elitists. The name of an obscure Polish animator is always on the lips, waiting to be played as a cultural trump card. "I'll raise you an Angolan documentary maker..." "I'll see your Indonesian cinematographer - and top it with my surprising taste for the subtext of the 'Ernest' movies...
...Parker and Stone don't seem to have any disdain for the President. Neither voted, and they sold the idea of a sitcom about the presidency to Comedy Central (half-owned by AOL Time Warner, parent company of TIME) the summer before the election; the recount pushed the show back from its planned March debut and also reduced the number of episodes from 10 to eight. In fact, before November, the only plot they had sketched out had President Gore trying to convince people that he was the real President while being usurped by a life-size robot. And before...
Heraclitus was of the royal blood that ruled the Greek city of Ephesus, but renounced his heritage. He looked on his fellow Ephesians with a certain aristocratic disdain and hated the mediocrity of those who "eat their way/toward sleep like nameless oxen." His countrymen, he wrote, "say, No man should be/worthier than average. Thus,/my fellow citizens declare,/whoever would seek/excellence can find it/elsewhere among others." He was sardonically hardheaded: "Hungry livestock,/though in sight of pasture,/need the prod...
...These days more than ever, Europeans seem to harbor immense suspicion, if not disdain, toward the U.S. As former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev put it recently in the Washington Post, "The world doesn't want to be American." Indeed, here in Europe, many citizens tremble at the very thought. Why? Aside, of course, from the facile and one-dimensional explanation of jealousy, isn't the rest of the free and not-so-free world bursting at the seams to be like the citizens of the country that brought us life, liberty and-that anthem of the modern age-the pursuit...