Word: disdainful
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...what needs to be done now," Shalikashvili told me. Second, these would have to be real soldiers, mentally tough, physically fit and combat ready. "Any peaceful checkpoint can become a battlefield in a heartbeat," said retired Major General Bill Nash, who commanded U.S. troops in Bosnia. There is fierce disdain within the Pentagon for the passive U.N. peacekeepers who stood by while thousands were murdered in Bosnia's ethnic cleansing. Finally, the Extreme Peacekeepers would have to be placed within the existing Army command structure, most likely in the special-operations command-home to the Green Berets and the venue...
...feel the board of the club treated its members shabbily and with disdain,” Zuckerberg said. “I oppose the manner in which the decision was imposed without input...
...starlet, and an imprisoned madwoman; her skill is such that she even manages to make the madwoman’s insanity touching. As Mephistopheles, Aoife Spillane-Hinks ’06 shows herself to be one of Harvard’s better student actors, speaking crisply and radiating both disdain for the mortals with whom she must associate and a sadistic pleasure in watching them torment themselves. She is also lucky enough to get to wear a different gorgeous costume, designed by Jane van Cleef ’06, in each of her appearances. The chorus of minions are sufficiently...
...quick to disavow the killings, blaming them on unnamed opponents whom he accused of trying to discredit him. The shootings, he said, were "premeditated in nature, with an aim to serve a political purpose, stir up security and blame the government." He has made little secret, though, of his disdain for Funcinpec. Two days before the slaying of journalist Chou, Hun Sen singled out the party's radio station for criticism, accusing it of insulting his own party. He warned Funcinpec that it should monitor its media "to avoid any conflicts...
...with the sub-headline “Laura braves weasel kiss.” The First Lady’s reaction to Chirac’s affection was both priceless, and refreshingly symbolic of the current relationship between Bush’s America and Europe. It combined a puritanical disdain for the swarthy Frenchman’s advances, and an innocent horror at the (for her) overly physical and sensual nature of the gesture. Surely, she thought, this was someone a degenerate like Tipper Gore would adore (after all, she made out with her husband on national television, in front...