Word: disdainful
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...Karzai underscored his disdain for U.S. preferences this week when he named as one of his running mates General Mohammed Fahim, a notorious warlord of the Northern Alliance. Washington had hoped to break the warlords' grip on power in Afghanistan; Karzai is for cementing the status quo. By way of consolation, the talk in Washington now is of bypassing Karzai as often as possible, working through approved members of his government in the capital and in the regions. But it's a potentially messy fix. Just as in Vietnam, the U.S. in Afghanistan finds itself fighting an implacable guerrilla...
...again. You see, FlyBy's never been one of those hipster blogs. Our jeans hang reasonably loose, the frames of our glasses are metallic and top out at only a few millimeters of thickness, and we don't look at the Top 40 with complete disdain. That is to say, we like it when songs have words. And when you can hear those words broadcast on radio stations that have good bandwidth and advertisements from major corporations. So you can imagine our confusion when we typed "Ratatat" into the good...
...earth is rare. Merkel in particular might feel slighted. Sarkozy's threat to bolt London's G20 summit earlier this month if Washington and London didn't bend to his demands on stimulus strategies and financial market regulations was made with the support of Merkel - who put her previous disdain and mistrust of Sarkozy aside in order to back...
...bedroom ceiling in the form of an angel, played by Isabel Q. Carey ’12. Carey—who also plays the Mormon Mother and Prior’s Nurse—knows precisely how to hold her head to convey a sense of otherworldly detachment and disdain for the world necessary to her part. She also gracefully pulls off swinging precariously through the air and dangling in space on pulleys with considerable aplomb. With an artistry of appearance, Carey’s angel invites a series of questions: is Prior insane? Has the strain of AIDS...
...citizens, without distinction of origin, of race, or religion". That gender- and color-blindness, national ideology holds, protects minority populations by ignoring the differences that divide them into often mutually hostile groups in societies like the U.S. and U.K. Indeed, few words are uttered in France with the same disdain as communitarisme: the proud identification with a component group within wider society so beloved in multi-cultural nations. (See pictures of 40 years of Concorde...