Word: disdainful
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...time with the hammers. I think that’s pretty lyrical, don’t you? Maybe I could write about rioters’ chants: history and literature. And sledgehammers.” My tutor looked thoughtful, although she may just have been trying to suppress her disdain...
...that I haven’t been looking forward to senior year, which, after all, seems to have a lot to recommend it: Roommates returned from sojourns abroad! Being 21—finally! Senior Bar! The right—nay, responsibility—to radiate a mature disdain for overeager first-years in section! The acquisition of business suits and of stockings and of shiny, pointy-toed pumps! My own bedroom! After the housing lottery, my roommate had to forcibly restrain me from visiting our new room with a tape measure. I had wanted to better envision how I would...
...last year of college and thus one’s last real year of socially acceptable immaturity. Seen in this light, all of the advantages of senior year are double-edged. Being able to drink legally means the state thinks you’re an adult; the disdain for first-years is tinged with envy for their lack of cynicism; those business suits will need to be worn to interviews somewhere. The single bedroom prefigures adult isolation: gone is the forced, riotous intimacy we enjoyed in the Yard...
...growing scholarly attention--the books and academic papers and conferences from Adelaide to Ottawa that explore Harry's connection to the Stoics, St. Augustine, Jung and Freud--and the renewed interest in children's literature that her books have fostered. But even those who view her with alarm or disdain pay her the same tribute as those who call her a savior. Both attest to her power over readers and the lessons she teaches through the stories she tells. There are tales of conversion when some critics actually get around to reading the books and find a message about good...
...Poker,” he said, in a tone part drug dealer, part disdain...