Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wording, his breathing. He was yanked back by an invisible harness whenever he came close to sneering, to uttering a personal anecdote that would be leapt on by some network-news Truth Squad. When he did attack Bush on a point of fact, the effort to reign in his disdain was palpable: questioning a Bush answer on Texas hate-crimes laws, he said, dispassionately, "I may have been misled by the reports that were in the news." You could practically see the bite marks he left on his tongue...
...this hypocrisy? After all, in seeking to replace a President who has gone so far as to test politically palatable vacation spots, Bush brandishes his disdain for the practice as proof of his own titanium character. He says over and over he is a "plainspoken man." But Bush is far more dependent on polls for shaping his message than he likes to admit, even if there is scant evidence that he uses them to develop fundamental policy positions. Remember Bob Jones? According to the Bush campaign's focus groups, you don't. In fact, Bush aides gleefully cite research showing...
...environment will suffer profoundly if the next President packs the Supreme Court with members who share Justice Scalia's disdain for the legal means Americans have used to clean up our air and water. While the next President will only be in office four to eight years, his legacy on the Supreme Court could harm our environment and our communities for more than a generation...
Only in the past few years have new Washington companies overcome their disdain for politics, banded together to form lobbying groups and begun to press their case. Their list of demands is growing both in size and in the amount of attention it is attracting in Congress. In the past year lawmakers have begun to make personal pilgrimages to talk to CEOs outside the Beltway...
...Saladin liberated it from Christian Crusaders 550 years later. The Palestinian leader can compromise on refugees, on territory, even on the parameters of statehood. But Arafat sees Jerusalem as his chance to transcend politics and enter the pantheon of great Islamic heroes, a coup that could wipe away the disdain so often heaped upon him by other Arab leaders...