Word: disdainful
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This he repeatedly demonstrates with his furiously maintained belief that coffee is loathsome, a blight on mankind. By his own account, he does not simply disdain coffee; he rages against it, preaches of its evils, overturns coffee urns in restaurants. He breaks up a marriage to a beautiful, intelligent and adoring woman because she backslides and drinks the foul stuff. Et, for several hundred pages, some very peculiar cetera...
...baseball strike wasn't exactly Matewan, not when the players, who average more than $1 million a year, weren't even willing to man their own picket lines. Ostensibly, the players were worried about security, but more probably, they were worried about having to sign a lot of autographs. Disdain for the public is one thing the owners and players have in common...
Shirley D. Nelson, a former teacher at Lowell, said the memo shows an "elitist" disdain by MIT for the larger Cambridge community...
...major frustration is coming from the Senate, where even some Republicans view much of the contract with disdain. Henry Waxman, a liberal Democratic Congressman from California, smiles at the mention of that reviled institution (House members generally refer to it with scorn as the Other Body). "The Senate?" Waxman said. "A wonderful place. Very deliberative body. Thoughtful people." Fresh from defeating the balanced-budget amendment, Senate Democrats, backed by some Republicans, are preparing to dismantle the next item from the House G.O.P.'s contract: the line-item veto. Senate leaders hope to take it up this week, but the bill...
...they followed the mantra ``Turn on, tune in and drop out,'' college students of the '60s also dropped academia's traditional disdain for business. ``Do your own thing'' easily translated into ``Start your own business.'' Reviled by the broader social establishment, hippies found ready acceptance in the world of small business. They brought an honesty and a dedication to service that was attractive to vendors and customers alike. Success in business made them disinclined to ``grow out of'' their countercultural values, and it made a number of them wealthy and powerful at a young...