Word: disdainful
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...bandolier hangs over one shoulder. In a far corner, his civil servants sit on the floor, leafing through papers. To his right, ferocious-looking warriors listen intently, while an obsequious secretary tries hard to finish his master's sentences and is rewarded by Pachakhan with a look of withering disdain. Faintly bored by questions about al-Qaeda strength?it's hard to tell, he shrugs?he livens up a little when asked how much he spends a day to keep his provinces working. "I don't keep count of such things," he says, then adds with a faint smile that...
Program--with disdain...
...unique. It is mirrored by the clash between a self-confidence that sometimes borders on arrogance and a humility born out of faith and some experience with failure. And it is reflected also in his willingness to surround himself with smart advisers on the one hand and his disdain for haughty intellectuals on the other. The question is whether the crucible of a two-year campaign changed Bush...
...that purchase became a symbol of Venter's disdain for authority, the new technique he developed for finding genes with it demonstrated his brilliance. By focusing on those bits of DNA that were actually doing something--as opposed to the long strings that had no obvious function--he was able to tag the relevant parts and decode them. These "expressed-sequence tags" enabled Venter to start identifying genes at a hitherto unimaginable pace...
...those namby-pamby anti-gourmands. A lesser man might have been intimidated by those three earlier heart attacks he?d suffered. But not Cheney - in the space of the last five years, he fearlessly gained 40 pounds, displaying a trencherman?s appetite for life and an admirable disdain for cardiologists and Surgeon Generals whining about moderation. And even after his pre-election heart scare, Cheney was seen in post-election/pre-concession Washington wolfing down fried chicken while those around him nibbled on mesclun. Food indulgence will be back big-time...