Word: disdainful
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...cuts me off. "That was the 20th century." Bradley likes to challenge your question before it's out of your mouth; sometimes, it seems, he treats political reporters with the same disdain athletes routinely show sportswriters. In this case, we're both right, but I let it go. "You prefer the model of a politician who steps up, says his piece and then gets left in peace...
Some may ask why I'm targeting this woman. Why turn my focus to her? Doesn't she have any privacy? Why don't I just pick on Pat Buchanan, Bob Barr or some other public figure worthy of our real disdain...
...this sounds familiar, it probably should. Throughout the cold war, complacent Americans watched with disdain as promising youngsters behind the Iron Curtain were plucked from home and hearth and sent to spend their childhood in athletic camps where they would be ruthlessly forged into international competitors, exemplars of the totalitarian ideal...
Stone townhouses whose pastel hues and intricate wrought-iron balconies testify to the wealth of those who built them. Side-walks peopled with men, women and children with backs straight and chins high like proud poodles--step lightly and with a certain disdain over cobblestones weathered by the centuries. Tree-lined boulevards whose flanks feature ornate fountains and sculptures carved by only the most famous of artisans...
Still, Scientific Learning will have to be boffo to win broad acceptance in a market marked by fierce competition, feuding theorists and frequent disdain for the profit motive. But the payoff for any company that can help kids overcome barriers to learning must be measured in more than dollars. "Boy, if you can increase the confidence of students in their own ability, you can affect a change in their lives," says Kleyn. Back in New Jersey, Nicole Davis might want to write a poem about that...