Word: disdain
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...Such attitudes explain the other issue some have with Sarkozy unabashedly admiring the same stars, musicians and even reality TV programs everyone else in France does: the disdain that the average French person frequently expresses for the average French person. Indeed, the very term "français moyen" literally means "average French person", but is usually used to refer to the kind of vulgar, uncultured and intellectually lazy person that "white trash" and "chav" designates in the U.S. and U.K. And that's an image that Sarkozy detractors predict will return to haunt him in the public mind over time...
...adjectives the year before. And early in the '99 season I'd hurt my right index finger trying desperately to pound out a deadline piece on the Super Bowl. I was playing hurt. But you know how managers are. This is the news weekly pal, he said with some disdain. What have you done for me next week...
...when the government’s own agents betray our ideals and then escape censure by destroying the evidence. If the American electorate is plagued with apathy and ignorance, we need not look to sources as remote as changing technology and the rise of special interests. Rather, the demonstrated disdain of the CIA for the ideals of the United States, the rights of its citizens, and international law would appear to be a much more direct cause of cynicism. Even as the agency moralizes on its website, extolling “personal accountability” and patriotism, it obstructs justice...
Despite his return to the international fold following his 2003 repudiation of state terrorism and of efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction, Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi hasn't been the kind of statesman Western leaders have wanted to honor in their capitals - until now. Despite his continued disdain for democracy and notoriously poor record on human rights, Gaddafi is being hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for a lavish five-day stay featuring not one but two meetings with Sarkozy. Supporters of the trip argue it offers Gaddafi evidence of the diplomatic respect awaiting him should he match...
...Indeed, it was Chvez's electrifying emergence that paved the way for the election in this decade of other leftist heads of state, like Brazil's Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Nstor Kirchner and Chile's Michelle Bachelet, even if Chvez affects to disdain their moderate, market-oriented socialism. Sunday's humbling results will make Chvez a less swaggering figure on the hemispheric scene, yet a little humility onhis part may make his neighbors more receptive to his initiatives. Latin America--and the rest of the world--has not heardthe last...