Word: disdain
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...however, Matlovich began training as a drug-abuse and race-relations instructor at Hurlburt Field in Florida, and his prejudices began to evaporate. As he came to realize that his contempt for blacks was ill-founded, his stereotyped disdain for homosexuality crumbled too. All along he had denied himself sexual contact; now, with considerable trepidation, he visited a gay bar in Pensacola and had his first homosexual encounter...
...crisp, dry style of poets like Auden--nouns are used as verbs, sentences are elipsed and inverted. In the very earliest of these poems, Clarke subtly reveals a kind of tormented agnosticism, as in this poem about the crucifixion of Christ: An open mind disturbs the soul, And in disdain I turn my back Upon the sun that makes a show Of half the world, yet still deny The pain that lives within the past, The flame sinking upon the spike, Darkness that man must dread at last...
Jimmy Breslin shows the bias of a clubhouse politician who understands the fast fix and the low squeeze; still he has nothing but disdain for any high flyer who thinks he can corrupt and deceive a whole nation. Last summer Breslin had the productive and pleasant idea of guzzling and gabbing regularly with a savvy fellow Irishman: Democratic House Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill (TIME cover, Feb. 4, 1974). It is Breslin's theory that those Washington politicians who create around them the "illusion of power" (like "beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished...
...women is sincere, the quotes are too long, repetitive and humorless. Worse, the photographs too rarely give us any insight into the character of the sitters. Those that do, like the picture of the lesbian couple sitting on the steps outside their apartment, their faces cool masks of defiant disdain, make the verbal statements superfluous...
...Evelyn satirized his peers and times by following sane characters through a giddy world. Harriet uses the much less engaging converse: crazy people, sane society. The father's unremittingly inhospitable view of humanity lent his books bite and pace. The daughter, so far at least, clearly shares his disdain for British foible, but cannot sustain it; when she lapses into tolerance, the novel drags. Even so, Mirror reflects a provocative and steely talent...