Word: disdainful
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...they stormed out of the theater and demanded their money back. Others reportedly threw cocktails and defaced Ronstadt's concert posters. Some cheered and applauded. Hotel management responded by booting Ronstadt off the premises and asking her never to return. In an interview a day earlier, the singer expressed disdain for the city and the Aladdin, saying "I keep hoping that if I'm annoying enough to them, they won't hire me back." Another Vegas dream come true...
...Young people I think are not embracing John Kerry. They disdain George Bush,” King said. “This election among college students is more of a referendum of George Bush than moving to John Kerry. That means it is still Bush’s race to win or lose...
...creator of "Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth," guest edited the hard covered book, taking over for regular "McSweeney's" editor Dave Eggers ("A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.") Ware's influence can be seen even before you tear off the shrink-wrap (an ironic touch given Ware's disdain for polybagged, untouchable collector's comics). The cover appears deconstructed. And it is, sort of. The dust jacket unfolds into a 29 x 21 3/4 inch, poster-size, full-color work about God, man and comic strips. The verso displays Gary Panter's giant mandala of cartoon and fine...
Unlike other Presidents--except, perhaps, for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Jackson--Reagan came to power as the leader of an ideological movement: in his case, a fierce conservatism forged and tempered by decades of disdain from the nation's moderate media and political establishment. In retrospect, the movement provided a necessary corrective for the slowly corroding industrial-age liberalism favored by the Democrats who controlled Congress. Reagan's followers were so eager for success that they were willing to tolerate some flagrant inconsistencies in his governance. His big 1981 tax cut was followed by two years of large, if undramatized...
Since returning to Iraq early this year, Brahimi has distanced himself from the Bush Administration. He criticized the Marines' siege of Fallujah and blasted Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. He sometimes has a hard time hiding his disdain for the world's only superpower, chiding the U.S. for having kept the international community on the sidelines in Iraq for so long. "The Americans call themselves the indispensable country," he told TIME. "And I suppose they are. But I have been calling the U.N. the indispensable organization for quite some time now ... We are doing what a lot of Iraqis have...