Word: disdainful
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...Bolton should not be the United Nations ambassador. He’s shown incredible disdain for the United Nations, and on top of that he’s also been one of the people who’s supposed to have been responsible for doing something about nuclear proliferation, which has gotten worse. So in one of the areas that he’s supposed to be primarily responsible, he’s not been effective...
...effective means of encouraging positive social change and awareness. Rather than seek mutually beneficial dialogue or intellectually rigorous discourse that would result in an increased, more holistic, awareness, radical students, who I am ashamed to call my peers, engaged in counterproductive debauchery. The protestors’ actions demonstrated a disdain for diversity of opinion, and as a result, the incredibly disruptive protest was a step backward for progressive politics at Harvard. Unfortunately, the previous leniency of the administration with regard to more tasteful student protests will surely regress...
Although the media has revealed questionable practices of intelligence services over the past few months, there are more effective methods of raising awareness than those employed by students at the panel. The disdain for intellectual and political freedom being exhibited before the panel stood in stark contrast to the protest be carried out in good taste right outside the Science Center doors. The so-called progressive student disrupters should attempt to engage in a more intellectually rigorous manner instead of staging farcical skits and rude cell-phone ringing orchestration. That students chose to rudely belittle the guest panelists...
...Schiavo case has provoked a passionate American conversation, which is taking place on a more profound level than the simple yes and no answers of the polls. Yes, the vast majority disdain the politicians who chose to exploit the case. And yes, a solid majority would not want their own lives prolonged in a similar situation. But the questions that cut closest to home are the family issues. What would you do if Terri Schiavo were your daughter? Why couldn't Michael Schiavo just give custody over to the parents? What do we do about custody in a society where...
...open that market. Today China is one of AIG's most promising regions. Yet Greenberg's success was accompanied by arrogance. He thought nothing of dressing down an analyst who asked tough questions, and when AIG came under siege early this year--accused of questionable bookkeeping--he responded with disdain and publicly chided regulators for investigating "foot faults...