Word: disdainful
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There are no neutrals in the Freud wars. Admiration, even downright adulation, on one side; skepticism, even downright disdain, on the other. This is not hyperbole. A psychoanalyst who is currently trying to enshrine Freud in the pantheon of cultural heroes must contend with a relentless critic who devotes his days to exposing Freud as a charlatan. But on one thing the contending parties agree: for good or ill, Sigmund Freud, more than any other explorer of the psyche, has shaped the mind of the 20th century. The very fierceness and persistence of his detractors are a wry tribute...
This decision has prompted a mixture of anxiety and disdain from friends with Senior Gift posts. Maybe they feel the way I did when an alum refused to give to Radcliff College Fund: no special prizes, and above all, no score for me. But the fact that they construe my choice as selfish or unthinking makes me suspect there's something more behind the need to make everyone give. Sort of like Secret Santa, where everyone is assigned a gift and recipient but ends up giving boring little gifts to the sole satisfaction of the person coordinating the affair...
Pellegrini's best known class is English 197, Introduction to Gay and Lesbian Studies, a whirlwind journey through the heart of the construction of gay and lesbian identity, where students learn to love Foucault and disdain any manifestation of bourgeois morality...
...most object to the common features of these post-everything trends: the disdain for Western civilization and popular culture, the denial of the desirability or universality of human rights, the denigration of the ability of individuals to be autonomous moral agents, and a magnanimous disrespect for religion, science and aesthetics...
...Rudd, 53, of Des Moines, who called Kasich's idea "fluff" during the Congressman's swing through Iowa. And now it isn't even resonating with Republican congressional leaders, whose initial enthusiasm quickly faded--first into nervous, qualified support and finally, by last week, into utter indifference and near disdain. Even some conservatives agree with Florida's Joe Scarborough, who dubbed the Kasich plan "a loser idea...