Word: disdained
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...been away from Harvard for a while, I hadn’t imagined he’d think the question an affront. After all, most Harvard students I know lack certain hallmarks of adulthood—financial self-sufficiency, for instance, or the ability to drink in moderation, or disdain for the Ben Stiller vehicle Zoolander. If pressed, I would define our stage of development as mid-adolescence. Being a grown-up, I’ve long thought, is something different, something removed and complicated—a state involving mortgages and full-time jobs and the ownership...
...whore ? when she gave birth she called the bastard Guinness but my father was probably the bloody cook," is a jolt. It is also the first flash of his occasional viciousness, here darkly humorous, often plain nasty. According to Read, he often treated his wife, Merula, with disdain, putting her down in public and insisting she give up her own acting career. When this led to her breakdown, he left her alone in a suite at the Ritz Hotel to get through it. His relationship with his son, Matthew, was awkward and could also be cruel - he once held...
...perhaps the British simply disdain huge followings in general, preferring to prove their independence of spirit by listening to as different band from many of their peers as they can manage. This phenomenon exists in the US amongst those who enjoy name-checking monumentally obscure indie bands or unsigned underground rappers. Besides the reality glitch that was the Spice Girls, Britain seldom supports the monolithic popularity that, say, Eminem or Dave Matthews enjoys in the U.S. British artists endure by never getting too big, so that the armchair music fiends who judge the Mercury can nominate them with their consciences...
...policies have seriously hurt America’s image in the eyes of millions of Europeans, but one can hardly blame anti-Americanism on Bush or any other U.S. president. Recent European outrage at American foreign policy is merely the latest episode in a long history of disdain among European elites that dates back before the Declaration of Independence. Even before its inception, America evoked a much more passionate response from Europeans than any of Europe’s other overseas creations and possessions. America became deeply unsettling to Europe’s elites before it had any power that...
...political right, as well as the left. Nazi and fascist characterizations of America barely differ in either tone or content from those of the extreme left. During the Cold War years, the presence of the Soviet threat—perceived a greater evil—muted disdain for America. But once this danger disappeared, old antipathies reemerged with new strength in a Europe that was about to embark on an unprecedented state-building process of a scale and scope unmatched in human history...