Word: disdainer
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...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...
...case of Iraq, the administration is dealing with the new reality by trying to internationalize the task of reconstruction. Inevitably, given the scarcely disguised disdain that some in the Administration have shown for the U.N., the decision to seek a new Security Council resolution was branded a reversal of policy. And inevitably, members of the Administration, who would not admit to error if the Inquisition put them through an auto-da-fe, scoffed at the very idea, stressing their flexibility, reminding skeptics--how could anyone have thought otherwise?--that they have been multilateralists all along. "We've been making course...
...There is a rich irony in the fact that the French government seems to be as opposed to Brussels' dictates as the Swedes, at least when it comes to economics. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin scorned the European Commission's warnings about his country's disdain for the E.U.'s 3% cap on budget deficits. Earlier this month Raffarin said his duty was to France and not to the E.U.'s "mathematics." At least the French and Germans have each other. Most of the French government flew to Berlin for a joint cabinet meeting on Thursday, and they...