Word: disdainfully
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...more bravado. After all, it was the Socialists' first big win in two humiliating, ineffective years. But Cambadélis and his colleagues know their victory has little to do with any surge in the party's electoral appeal and a lot to do with rising public disdain for the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (ump) of conservative President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. "This isn't a vote for the Socialists," says political commentator Alain Duhamel. "It's an expression of discontent with the liberal policies of the government." This spring is shaping...
...Korea's democracy. His main selling point was not his allergy to the U.S. (genuine as that may be), but rather his outsider's r?sum?: his manifest lack of experience in Seoul's payola-driven politics, a system that the great majority of voters already viewed with distrust and disdain. Once in office, Roh's amateurish and inconstant performance, as well as his own cynical attempts to game the system, did little to allay popular misgivings about the health of the democracy. Recall that, after barely eight months in office, a frustrated and tactically outclassed Roh toyed with pulling...
...course this isn’t incredibly surprising, noting the Ivy Council of Presidents’ disdain for the prefix “post.” (For a practical example of the “postphobic” bent of our esteemed leaders, consider their stance on the I-AA playoffs in football...
...need not delve too far into modern popular culture to perceive a trendy disdain for deep religious conviction,” he wrote later in the dissent...
...term art-pop conjures up images of archly obscurantist noise bands with a heady disdain for melody, think again. It would be hard to be more artsy than Brighton, U.K.-based quartet Electrelane. On their first album, they eschewed the use of vocals (classy), but for “The Power Out”, their debut album for indie label Beggars Group, frontwoman Verity Susman (classier) has contributed vocals in four different languages (classiest). And get this: the English words on “The Valleys” are from a Siegried Sassoon poem, while the German ones...