Word: disdainer
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...dismayed to read Prof. Mansfield's speculations as to the relation between race-based admissions and grade inflation at Harvard. His comments were utterly unsupported and brazenly hurtful, and deserve our unqualified disdain...
...gargantuan desk. The show is a bore, and Beat's not afraid to admit it. Who do you think the TV audience identifies with: the kimono-clad manga artist tendentiously making a point about how Japan isn't ready to host the World Cup, or Beat and his flagrant disdain for taking anything too seriously? Beat is in on the joke. And so is the rest of Japan...
...video for her new single Love Don't Cost a Thing, Jennifer Lopez strips off her jewelry, strides into the water off a beach and proceeds to divest herself of her blouse (her back turned coyly to the camera), all to dramatize her disdain for the trappings of wealth. It's a critique of materialism that wouldn't have half as much impact if it were, say, Friedrich Engels half-naked in the surf...
...bandolier hangs over one shoulder. In a far corner, his civil servants sit on the floor, leafing through papers. To his right, ferocious-looking warriors listen intently, while an obsequious secretary tries hard to finish his master's sentences and is rewarded by Pachakhan with a look of withering disdain. Faintly bored by questions about al-Qaeda strength?it's hard to tell, he shrugs?he livens up a little when asked how much he spends a day to keep his provinces working. "I don't keep count of such things," he says, then adds with a faint smile that...
Program--with disdain...