Word: disdain
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...friends and relatives killed by the Iraqis are marked by red banners. It is only at night, when Kuwaitis gather to gossip, that one perceives the pervasive seething. The treatment of Palestinians is on everyone's mind, but deeper, more worrisome resentments are expressed, and none approach the disdain felt by those who stayed for those who left. "We cared for ourselves and proved our loyalty," says Nadyah al-Mudhaf, an investment banker. "The 'runners' wined and dined and discoed, and now they are back to treating us like we didn't exist. We love our rulers for all they...
Typical American chronicles that bittersweet journey for Ralph Chang, a Chinese engineering student who comes to the U.S. in 1947 for his doctorate; his wife Helen; and his sister Theresa. The Changs initially disdain the lack of tradition they describe as "typical American" behavior, but soon they are stir-frying hot dogs. They also fall under the spell of Grover Ding, an American-born Svengali of free enterprise who leads Ralph into a dubious fried-chicken business, seduces Helen and causes Theresa, the family loyalist, to leave home. The happy ending for the Changs comes not in abandoning the American...
Vellucci says that his long-standing disdain for the Lampoon dates back to the early days of the Lampoon-tree rivalry. He says that the mutual sentiments stem back to an incident in the early Sixties involving the copper Ibis, now electrified and resting on the roof of the castle...
Wilder at least has the benefit of incumbency. Only 15 months ago, he made history by becoming the nation's first black elected Governor. But residual racism will be a problem for him, as will his lack of foreign policy experience, disdain for political organizing and habit of picking quarrels with powerful Democrats just to keep in fighting trim. Some insiders believe that Wilder's real aim is to become the vice-presidential nominee...
...Others contained a mix of irony and rue. The author would shy away from explicit scenes of sexual commerce: "How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives as if -- jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts -- we were describing the changing of a flat tire?" He would disdain alcoholics: "Out they go, male and female, all the lushes; they throw so little true light on the way we live." And homosexuals were to have no place in his pages: "Isn't it time that we embraced the indiscretion and inconstancy of the flesh and moved...