Word: scorned
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...HAVEN-—As the buses roll south this afternoon, most of your capacity for scorn is doubtless directed at Yale University: its pretensions, its safety-school status, the foreign policy of its various graduates. But if I know Harvard students, you’ve saved a small but potent reservoir of scorn for your destination itself, New Haven...
...been there. But now I find myself living here, and like a character in a tepid romantic comedy, my own scorn has blossomed into affection. I come not to bury New Haven but, oddly enough, to praise...
...quote the futurists’ Manifesto point #9, “We will glorify war—the world’s only hygiene—militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman...
...made entirely from the meaty parts of the head of a pig or calf, but now can include edible parts of the feet, tongue and heart”) introduces a profound dilemma. If you’re anything like me, you will be torn between conflicting emotions—scorn of anything flavored with teriyaki and fear of permanent incapacitation by listeria, salmonella or Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease...
...Krauthammer's essay was neatly designed to turn all criticism of Bush into symptoms of liberal jealousy, envy and spite. Bush's Promethean overreaching, his imperial scorn for trade agreements and the U.N., his warmongering?all were presented as signs of greatness. I looked in vain for some sign that this was satire. Alas, it wasn't. Price Caldwell Tokyo...