Word: disdained
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...crosscutting is not a device or a crutch; Magnolia is, in fact, Anderson's most ambitious and assured film to date because he operates without imposing the distance of Hard Eight's hidden motivations or Boogie Nights' campy ludicrousness. There is neither disdain nor caricature in the way he nakedly reveals each character's fear, sentimentality, and clumsy attempts at revelation and renewal...