Word: disdain
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nothing so much as that other, more populous hamlet, the right-wing Fox News and Limbaugh slum. Hilariously, as we stagger from one awful decade into the next, there has been a coagulation of these extremes - a united front against the turgid ceremonies of legislative democracy, like compromise, and disdain for the politician most responsible for nudging our snarled checks and balances toward action, Barack Obama. The issue that has brought them together is opposition to the Senate's health care-reform bill, which makes some sense on the right, but none at all on the left...
...telling reaction, indicative of the still gloomy national mood, the perceived fickleness of monthly economic indicators - and the diminished status of the unemployment rate as a statistic. Once the indispensable, largely unquestioned measure of the state of the job market, it is now treated with suspicion and disdain. With good reason, because the unemployment rate fails to accurately reflect just how bad things are out there. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
...article of faith among Washington diplomats that with just the right configuration of carrots and sticks, Pyongyang could be enticed to stand down its nuclear weapons and begin to be drawn out of international isolation. That belief prompted the Bush Administration to jettison its first-term approach of diplomatic disdain and economic sanctions, and instead embrace, along with its partners in East Asia, a policy of engagement with the North - which culminated in another nuclear deal with Pyongyang that has since fallen apart...
...from watching the greasers and the Pink Ladies. Although their scenes mainly offer comic relief, their banter is energetic and perfectly timed. The interaction between these characters has the power to induce nostalgia in those who might otherwise look back on their high school days with nothing less than disdain. Every speaking character has practiced and acquired what one imagines to be the accent of the 1950s. And although no one should expect “Grease” to be historically accurate, such flourishes are appreciated...
...understand why, once I reached you, all I wanted was a sling for my arm and some stitches for my head. Instead, you gave me a heavy dose of disdain and blame. You openly doubted my story of injuring myself while dancing, even after I told both a nurse and doctor that I had congenitally loose shoulder joints. You looked at me skeptically when I explained how I fell. You asked if I had been drinking, and when I admitted that I had, you rudely thrust a Breathalyzer into my face to register my BAC. At somewhere between...