Word: mistrust
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...medieval outlook on Church and clergy. At no time was anticlericalism so rampant as in the Age of Faith. Analagously, some physicians have the greatest respect for psychiatry and would not hesitate to refer patients to psychiatrists; yet in their hearts they view psychiatrists with a certain mistrust and professional disdain...
...tone of jaunty worldliness, Barzini's is a cry of despair: "The tenacity and the eagerness with which the individual pursues his private interests and defends himself from society, his mistrust of noble ideals and motives, the splendid show, the all-pervading indulgence for man's foibles, make Italian life pleasant and bearable in spite of poverty, tyranny and injustice. They also waste the efforts and the sacrifices of the best Italians and make poverty, tyranny and injustice very difficult to defeat...
...acclaim the world over. The Shawns were among the first to create ballets drawn from American themes. Their chain of Denishawn dance schools groomed such prime movers of modern dance as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman. Their proudest accomplishment, individually and together, was to help vanquish the puritanical mistrust with which most Americans had traditionally viewed the dance, to make their art part of the nation's cultural life...
...Patrick declined to offer his own solution to the dispute. However, he doubted, due to the "deep-seated mistrust" between the Greek and Turkish Cypriotes, that "a simple doctrine of self-determination would work." He called partition the worst of the possible solutions which have been offered...
...were in Russia," Satish Kumar said, "they tell us, 'if we disarm, America will destroy us,' but here I do not see any horrible people. All say, 'We will disarm if they disarm.' What is this 'if'? This is not the logic of love. This is the logic of mistrust...