Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time with the hammers. I think that’s pretty lyrical, don’t you? Maybe I could write about rioters’ chants: history and literature. And sledgehammers.” My tutor looked thoughtful, although she may just have been trying to suppress her disdain...
...Poker,” he said, in a tone part drug dealer, part disdain...
...interview with chat-show host Andrew Denton last year, Hogan confessed his disdain for acting. "It's a rather childish pursuit," he said. "'I pretend I'm someone, and I'm, you know ... really good at pretending.' And I don't sort of get on with people who polish their craft and go to the edge of the envelope and take it a bit too seriously." Watching Strange Bedfellows, you wish he'd pretend a bit more - loosen up and have some fun. Because his eyes are beginning to lose their twinkle...
...standpoint, the United States need not worry about an opposition leader from a sparsely-populated nation with a small economy and an even smaller army. Irrelevant to the average American, Australia seems little more than a holiday locale and a former British colony. But Australia’s new disdain for U.S hegemony augurs worryingly for the world superpower...
...thing stands out about all these debates—they’re arguments of privilege. The grunts of revulsion at Bush’s eighth-grade vocabulary, more puerile than funny three years into the term, represent an unthoughtful disdain that ostensibly worldly Harvard grads can hardly afford. It reflects a bourgeois kind of liberalism that doesn’t belong to either the vast swathes of “red” country or to most of liberal America, where the gristle of labor unions or socially conservative minorities dominates. Unless “the real world?...