Word: disdainful
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...essence of Herman Blume. Schwartzman, on the other hand, succeeds not because he easily slips into Max's air of self-confidence, but because he is willing to give the viewer glimpses of what the character really is--an inexperienced 15-year-old putting on a front of institutional disdain. Whether Schwartzman is really a gifted actor or just a sharp kid playing shades of himself will be determined in future films. For now, it is safe to say that he is a shining screen presence in Rushmore...
Carnesale's bold disdain for fashionable public opinion is made even more extraordinary by the recent willingness of the University of California system's governing board to issue symbolic proclamations to win favor among racial minorities disenchanted with 209. In mid-January, the UC Board of Regents held its first meeting of the year, where a group of regents hinted that they would propose a symbolic vote whereby the board would voice their support for affirmative action in UC admissions...
...long year's work finally paid off, especially on Capitol Hill. Democrats knew the attack on Clinton threatened them too, and that survival depended on getting past both their disdain for him and their history of mutual backstabbing. The armistice talks began after the 1996 election as an effort to heal the wounds of the divisive campaign, but it was the scandal that forced Clinton into his fellow Democrats' arms. Without them he could not survive...
...religious divination she gets out of it. Erin Billings '99 becomes a Southern belle-turned-snake-handler in "Handler," and Shionoiri reappears in Dragons as a woman giving birth to dragons (yes, on stage) while appealing to the Catholic saints and religious conventions that she seems to disdain...
...interest rate cut that brought rates across the zone to 3 percent. England needs to follow suit or risk falling behind its trading partners -- high interest rates (in relation to its neighbors) would prop up the pound and slow down England?s exports, spelling recession for sure. England?s disdain for the euro pact means there will be a pound sterling next year. But if the Bank of England continues to follow the euro-zone bankers? lead on monetary policy, the pound note will be the only indication that Britain hasn?t signed...