Word: disdainful
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...Jesuit-run Ateneo University) who doesn't hesitate to grimace when she feels a question is wasting her time. Her Cabinet secretaries sometimes feel chastised for not having done their homework, and they dread it when she dismissively bangs their dossiers on their desks, her dark eyes flashing with disdain...
...Nepalese are left with a comatose King who killed his father and a regent with a high-handed disdain for the democratic process. The Shah dynasty, proprietors of a 250-year lineage, has been virtually eradicated in a few bursts of gunfire. Nepalese are still pondering the gruesome narrative of the massacre. But their longer-term question is: Into what kind of society is our mountain kingdom evolving...
...sales. Sure, it's a huge market for telecom equipment, but that's not all. Even after the recent downturn, the U.S. stock market remains a deep pool of capital. Alcatel has already tried raising its U.S. profile this year with an ad campaign featuring, to the disdain of civil rights groups, footage from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. The ads don't say anything about Alcatel's products - in fact, they are bewilderingly opaque - but given that those products are things like asynchronous transfer-mode data switches, it seems a safe bet that...
...seen Jeffords' change coming. He could have looked mighty close to home: in his own family. His grandfather Senator Prescott Bush was a moderate and cranky New England Republican not unlike Jim Jeffords. Even Bush's father, with his early support for Head Start and abortion rights and his disdain for supply-side economics, was once in the maverick Jim Jeffords mold...
...cannot overcome their sibling rivalry, which is made evident by the WWF-style wrestling match they engage in after arguing about how much money to spend on the funeral. All the while, Mama Slocumb looks on her family’s behavior with an air of mixed disdain and amusement...