Word: disdainful
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...collaborators alike, he became Commissioner for Jewish Affairs for the Vichy government in May 1942, presiding over a nest of corruption and the deportation of 75,000 Jews to German death camps. He died in 1980, unpunished and unrepentant. Callil lays out Darquier's sordid tale with cool disdain and relentless research. She first encountered his name after the apparent suicide in 1970 of her young psychiatrist - his daughter, it turned out, who had been abandoned decades before. In Callil's gifted hands, Louis Darquier's story becomes a history of modern French anti-Semitism - and a stark reminder...
...world. And the reason for that failure isn't due so much to capitalism itself - it's due to the fact that capitalism, or socialism for that matter, can't work fairly in any setting devoid of the kind of functioning democratic institutions that the Pinochets of the hemisphere disdain, from universal education to reliable judicial systems...
...oppression emanated from the police who watched with a mixture of amusement and disdain at the pathetically sober freshmen and the sheer disdain of having to sacrifice a Saturday for this...
...rest of the ’06 Bulldogs, it is about a genuine disdain for Harvard, which, if you’ll excuse us, is standing in the way of our Ivy League title...
...accident—it’s a sin. My public crime—by which I mean three centimeters of exposed hip—was apparently atrocious enough to warrant a complete stranger yanking my t-shirt down and proceeding to shoot me a look of disdain that—at one fell stroke—dismissed me based on nothing more than the clothes I was wearing. But the Egyptian taboo against baring even the smallest bit of skin runs much deeper than mere cultural norms; it is rooted in religion. One does not need to travel...