Word: disdainful
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...course this isn’t incredibly surprising, noting the Ivy Council of Presidents’ disdain for the prefix “post.” (For a practical example of the “postphobic” bent of our esteemed leaders, consider their stance on the I-AA playoffs in football...
...need not delve too far into modern popular culture to perceive a trendy disdain for deep religious conviction,” he wrote later in the dissent...
...term art-pop conjures up images of archly obscurantist noise bands with a heady disdain for melody, think again. It would be hard to be more artsy than Brighton, U.K.-based quartet Electrelane. On their first album, they eschewed the use of vocals (classy), but for “The Power Out”, their debut album for indie label Beggars Group, frontwoman Verity Susman (classier) has contributed vocals in four different languages (classiest). And get this: the English words on “The Valleys” are from a Siegried Sassoon poem, while the German ones...
...greatest service was to warn Washington in 1980 that the Soviets were planning to invade Poland to quash the country's fledgling trade union movement, allowing the U.S. to pressure Moscow to back down. Kuklinski, who defected to the U.S. in 1981, said his espionage was motivated by his disdain for Poland's Soviet overlords. In 1994, Pope John Paul II received him at the Vatican, and four years later a court in postcommunist Poland exonerated him of a previous treason conviction, permitting him to visit the country he risked his life trying to save. -By Richard Hornik...
...contents for this magazine show. Osgood runs though the half-dozen main stories, then reads the news ?for today, February 15th, twenty-oh-four.? The show revels in mild eccentricities; some of the most prominent are Osgood?s bow tie, his occasional flights of doggerel and his persistent disdain for the locution ?two thousand four...