Word: disdainful
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...Hampshire, where everything began in 1968-as in so many states-the brave talk of a New Politics has withered away in the face of Vietnamization and the Silent Majority. Unity has given way to the traditional leftist bickering and divisiveness that the professional politicians so disdain-and count on to maintain their power. Innumerable demonstrations, petitions, and fasts later, the war goes on and Nixon gets more popular...
...shouts and curses and laughter of the Panthers are tactics of confrontation that were developed in the street. As the Chicago Seven ably demonstrated, determined men can disrupt a trial at will. And many defendants' apparent disdain for punishment has rendered the traditional judicial fetters-contempt citations, gags and shackles-largely ineffective...
...corps last year because his book created such an uproar: "The Japanese harbor an inferiority complex toward Europeans and Americans, while they tend to treat Asians with a superiority complex. This is why the average Japanese, while feeling at home in the company of Asiatics, often betrays arrogance and disdain...
...show runs for half an hour three nights a week, soap-opera style, but its black producers call it "soul drama." The main distinctions are a disdain for euphemism and a bitter black perspective. Characters refer to each other as "black bastards" and "niggers," "sons of bitches" and "mothers." White employers are parodied behind their backs, and there is recurrent talk of revolution. Rails one black domestic: "Wait till the slave maids and housekeepers take to the streets-and them bitches have to do their own dishes...
Aristocratic Disdain. The Rt. Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, third Earl Russell, was born into a tradition of aristocratic disdain for what the neighbors might say, if not with an active desire to epater le bourgeois. His grandfather, the first earl, was Prime Minister of England. His parents were ardent freethinkers and campaigners for women's rights. Bertie, considered frail, was educated at home, and there was much coming and going of tutors...