Word: disdainful
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...rumpled dresser with a former athlete's disdain for exercise as well as a fondness for junk food that has doubled his chin, Bradley is not particularly telegenic. Although he has a wry sense of humor, he is too deliberate to be glib. But Bradley, who actually writes his own speeches, is trying to become less wooden. "You improve the more you speak," he says. "If you think I'm bad now, you should have seen me at the beginning. I'm up from zero." Having mastered what he calls his "inside game"--a thorough command of detail--he says...
...then seeing a fireball rise above the reactor building. Many stories strained to find positive details to hearten readers. Pravda, for example, cited evidence that life continued in the wake of the accident: "The nightingale concert over Pripyat goes on both night and day." Yet, in a demonstration of disdain for Western-style rock, Soviet officials did not publicly announce last week's concert for the evacuated residents of the Chernobyl area. Muscovites learned of the benefit by word of mouth or from a smattering of street posters...
...British Monarchy serves more as fodder for gossip columnists than anything else. Colleges and universities across this country attract students and professors who Harvard might otherwise retaining, and any reverence remaining for Harvard is counterbalanced by an equal dose of disdain...
...singular draftsman. Lopez's pencil drawings, both tiny and enormous --Water Closet, 1970-73, is 8 ft. high--display a command over the medium unique in 20th century realism. Who else has achieved such finesse of tone, such a steely grasp of hallucinatory detail within the ordinary, such a disdain for visual clutter? At their best, the drawings are a mesmerizing conjunction of opposites. On one hand, the patient surface, rubbed and reworked to a silvery bloom punctuated with dark points of attention, anxiously tender and very seductive to the eye; on the other, a kind of silent rawness...
...money and business. Their daughter (Rebecca Ellens) is a fanciful child who has learned none of the % social graces. The self-proclaimed idealism of their friend Gregers Werle (Christopher McCann)--who moves in and reorders their lives with disastrous consequences--mingles religious fanaticism with a rich man's easy disdain for money. Fittingly, the production ends without the comfort of catharsis, in a fistfight between the unrepentant Gregers and a neighbor, a drunken but discerning doctor. The incidents come basically from Ibsen, conveyed with a rawness modern audiences rarely see in his work. Even in this highly symbolic play...