Word: disdainful
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...differences between Rove and Bush, their similarities bound them from the start. They bonded over their shared disdain for the snobbery of East Coast elites and the culture of permissiveness of the 1960s. They both share a faith in their own instincts: Bush boasts about trusting his gut and the clear simple wisdom of the West Texas oil patch. Rove, the college dropout turned academic, cultivates an intellectual version of the same, considering himself a Natural--a self-taught big brain who devours histories and political tomes and applies what he learns to the art of winning races...
...some students disdain the use of Harvard as an apparatus from which to launch a political career...
...notion he is bound for office. "To play politics never entered my mind," he says. "There are plenty of people in politics already. I want to imitate the Prophet. He said that the best a man can be is to be of benefit to others." Yet for all his disdain of "playing politics," Aa Gym allows that circumstances could change. On other occasions, he's talked vaguely about his "target" of 2009, a presidential election year. "Anything could happen tomorrow," he says...
...sample of athletes as the crux of arguments against a larger population is egregiously misleading. Regardless of the accuracy of these statements, the idea that the words of a few individuals, taken out of context, properly portray Harvard’s athletes shows a lack of integrity. The blatant disdain Smith and his ilk have shown for “under-qualified athletic recruits” is the source of embittered statements by individual athletes, which don’t portray the sentiment of Harvard’s athletes at large...
...exile from Germany in 1939, Freud attended art school near Constable's birthplace in Suffolk, although that didn't make him an admirer. He was all too familiar with Constable's most famous painting, The Hay Wain, because "it was everywhere in England, on tablecloths, on beer coasters ..." Disdain turned to admiration only after Freud saw Constable's small, closeup painting of a tree trunk - and tried to do one himself: "It was a catastrophe." Appropriately, Freud opens the show with Constable's tree trunk, followed by some 200 paintings, drawings and watercolors that trace the evolution of Constable...