Word: disrespectfulness
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This is certainly NOT how I view my observance of kosher dietary laws. His letter reflects a blatant disrespect for the principles of keeping kosher, and imposes his own value judgment and interpretation on the spirit and reasons behind such practices...
Britain's rowdy tabloids had a field day, with headlines like HANDS ORF, COBBER! and Australian political foes accused him of disrespect. Keating retorted that he had learned "self-regard for Australia, and not some cultural cringe" toward Britain. He repeated the hoary complaint that Britain's swift loss of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942 had left Australia defenseless...
...stood up in the middle of the sermon, put on his hat (a particularly Catholic sign of disrespect) and walked out. it was a foolhardy act of him the wonderful person that...
...center is the writer's bond with her mother, an uneducated but adept midwife who, in vintage American style, inspired her children to make something of themselves by seizing opportunities she never had. Her foibles and uproarious back-country ways are evoked unflinchingly but without disrespect. It is a measure of Holland's gifts (and of Bruce's acting) that the mother never seems a plaster saint, even when she is a true martyr -- fatally burned in a house fire that was apparently retaliation for the daughter's civil rights activism...