Word: disdainful
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...state lawyer Joseph Klock began, "We have not addressed the federal issues, because -" Scalia cut him off: "Well, this is a federal court!" To Laurence Tribe, on the question of whether the Florida legislature might have "invited" the state supreme court's intervention, Scalia - alluding to legislature's disdain for court action, sneered, "Maybe your experience of the legislative branch is different from mine...
Though Bush claimed to have disdain for "efforts to mold public opinion," his advisers, like Gore's, were obsessed with them. Rove and his team carefully weighed the question of how often to bring their man in front of the cameras. Tuesday and Wednesday they talked about herding the press corps to the ranch to show off Bush's good spirits. By Thursday they decided that things were going so well that the candidate didn't need to get in the way of the news. "The news in Florida was so good," an aide says, "we'd let it speak...
...Elvis was performing, the person in the farthest balcony seat thought Elvis was performing directly for him. Go into a large room of people with Bill Clinton, and it seems like he's talking directly at you. It's a kind of rakish charm on overload. There's a disdain for both Clinton and Presley by the East Coast elites, who saw them as backward, Pentecostal hillbillies, when in truth both were very sophisticated at what they do. They will both be forever lampooned, yet real people who understand popular music know why Elvis was a master, and real people...
Even growing companies have shut down in the face of VC disdain and looming cash shortages. Three weeks ago, Kibu.com a start-up that had made healthy inroads in the teen-girl market by building a cyberchat "hangout," shocked analysts by closing while it still had a healthy bank balance. The reason? Kibu was unlikely to be "valued appropriately"--in other words, stupefyingly overvalued--by a market that has lost its appetite for IPOs. So it gave investors some of their money back. Indeed, the shell-shocked look on the faces of dotcomers who only yesterday had dreamed of Maseratis...
...prolonged disdain of investors can be like the hot lamps in an interrogation room: You sweat a lot and, eventually, you break down and tell them whatever they want to hear...