Word: disdainful
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This was the first Washington "summit" since 1994 convened by the National Review, the magazine that helped found the modern conservative movement, and I must say that its followers have several things going for them: they are decorous and erudite. The presidency of George W. Bush elicited polite disdain compared with the ferocious ideological nuking that Bill Clinton suffered at the hands of the left wing of his party when Democratic postmortems were held after the 1994 congressional debacle. The intellectual quality of the proceedings was impressive but, as is always the case with ideologues, myopic. Churchill was cited extravagantly...
This was the first Washington "summit" since 1994 convened by the National Review, the magazine that helped found the modern conservative movement, and I must say that its followers have several things going for them: they are decorous and erudite. The presidency of George W. Bush elicited polite disdain compared with the ferocious ideological nuking that Bill Clinton suffered at the hands of the left wing of his party when Democratic postmortems were held after the 1994 congressional debacle. The intellectual quality of the proceedings was impressive but, as is always the case with ideologues, myopic. Churchill was cited extravagantly...
...black slums. In 1949 he enrolled at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was inspired by the can-do regimentation of the military. But after a four-year minimum Navy hitch, he resigned to join a firm synonymous with the kind of corporate bureaucracy Perot now claims to disdain...
...satirical knives come thick and fast: Blair's shock at the squalor of the state-run hospital he has to attend when he gets sick; the steely disdain of the PM's wife Cherie (played by Phoebe Nicholl) for the Browns, who are moving into No. 10 Downing; the alacrity with which the U.S. drops Blair by agreeing to a U.N resolution to set up a special tribunal for aggressors in Iraq in order to prove its new enlightened foreign policy credentials. "We're going to say some unpleasant things about you," the U.S. ambassador in London tells Blair...
...Halutz's bypassing the defense minister was a sign of his disdain for Peretz, these sources said. Olmert shares the general's disdain for Labor Party leader Peretz, a former trade unionist and neophyte in security matters. The prime minister pointedly declared before choosing a new military chief, he would consult with retired and active generals - not with his defense minister...