Word: disdain
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Since Kissinger can hardly hide his disdain for these new issues, the best he does is to again choose the safe course. He covers his bases by paying lip-service to the emerging emphasis on human rights and other new issues, accepting them only as fait accompli...
...LOAD LETTER” error message. Just about everyone has a Milton—the deranged loner who is given odd jobs to keep him busy. And just about everyone has a Samir or a Michael Bolton—co-workers who become friends through shared agony and disdain of repetitive and seemingly pointless work...
...Jesuit-run Ateneo University) who doesn't hesitate to grimace when she feels a question is wasting her time. Her Cabinet secretaries sometimes feel chastised for not having done their homework, and they dread it when she dismissively bangs their dossiers on their desks, her dark eyes flashing with disdain...
Seven years ago, Jeweler Dalila gherras did something any good Parisian would find unthinkable: she left a fine salary and stable job in the capital for distant Marseilles - where unemployment exceeded 20% and where the local disdain for relocating outsiders was legendary. Despite that dire outlook, Gherras remained convinced Marseilles' Mediterranean beauty and inimitable lifestyle would provide "an improved quality of life worth taking occupational and financial risks to obtain." Today, Gherras is not only happy and working in Marseilles, but she has also launched a new career in real estate as hordes of individuals, families and companies flock...
...Nepalese are left with a comatose King who killed his father and a regent with a high-handed disdain for the democratic process. The Shah dynasty, proprietors of a 250-year lineage, has been virtually eradicated in a few bursts of gunfire. Nepalese are still pondering the gruesome narrative of the massacre. But their longer-term question is: Into what kind of society is our mountain kingdom evolving...