Word: disdainful
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...offensive has probably been effective in changing perceptions about the U.S. among some Soviet citizens; its goal of taking the edge off Washington's charges about Moscow's alleged violations is still remote. Washington so far has not reacted to the stepped-up campaign, maintaining an aloof disdain for the Soviet charges, and is quietly relieved that the Soviets are talking about human rights at all. Notes one senior U.S. official: "Everybody here can judge this country's approach to the enhancement of human rights, and they can judge the other side's. We'll let those judgments rest...
While Threshie limited the paper's disdain for excessive government interference to the editorial page, Editor Anderson cleaned up the paper's format by reducing the cluttered eight-column pages to six and laying out stories in easy-to-read rectangular units instead of the traditional vertical strips. Anderson also ran much more news about Orange County, an 800-sq.-mi. sprawl of 26 municipalities and scores of towns, with a population of more than 2 million...
More importantly, our protest did not “demonstrate disdain for diversity of opinion.” The event was a recruitment meeting, not a debate. The CIA and DHS representatives were not there to offer “opinions” or “ideas,” but rather to lure talented Harvard students into exciting careers with agencies for which torture, mass deportations, assassinations, and other violations of human rights are standard practices. I was there to inform others of these practices (with a fact sheet we handed to everyone in attendance), express my disgust...
...They're backpackers." Bo sneered the explanation to his mother with a fierce disdain...
With a small trace of disdain palpable in his voice for safe, stale Hollywood film product, Haggis explains, “I leave all of the characters where most Hollywood films would say, ‘Okay, that’s the end of Act 2, they’ve asked themselves the big question. Now how do they resolve that in Act 3?’ Well, I wasn’t interested in how they resolved it. I was interested in getting to that point...