Word: disdainful
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Pompidou makes no secret of his disdain for his former Premier. "Perhaps I can't elect the candidate of my choice," he reflected recently, "but I can defeat whom I don't want" - meaning Chaban. Chaban, however, has picked up other important support, notably from Debré, who has endorsed him for President. As a prelude to an eventual campaign for president, Chaban has assembled a brain trust of advisers and thinkers, but so far he is deliberately keeping a low profile. Says an aide: "Why should he start taking a position on every issue that pops...
Many former students claim that their exposure to Kissinger in the seminars has helped them to understand certain key elements in his approach to foreign policy: an undisguised disdain for bureaucracy, an impatience with Utopian ideas, and an ability to view power relationships unencumbered by ideology. Several former students remarked that Kissinger had no apparent heroes, and that his supposed admiration for Metternich has been considerably exaggerated. Some Asian and Middle Eastern students criticize him on the grounds that he viewed the world in European terms and understood little about the Third World...
...Confucius was The Master, after all, and his sayings reflect disdain for both the humble peasant and his opinion. "You must practice the manner of gentlemen, not that of the common people," he told one student. "The gentleman is dignified, but never haughty; common people are haughty, but never dignified." As for his Way, The Master said, "The common people can be made to follow it; they cannot be made to understand...
...Thus, in the eyes of the Communists, he fostered exactly the kind of deep division between ruler and ruled that runs counter to Mao's expressed principle that in a proletarian society the masses rule themselves. Even more offensive to the Communist is the Confucianists' extremely unproletarian disdain for manual labor. "The superior man attends to spiritual things and not to his livelihood," was Confucius' pronouncement...
...simply making contact with the 100,000 or so strikers, who are represented by scores of organizations. Self-employed businessmen who often own two or three rigs and haul goods for trucking companies on a contract basis, the independents are united only in their demands and by a general disdain for regulations that inhibit their sense of freedom...