Word: scorned
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...measure of the practical value of such lessons is that university drama professors, who used to scorn theme-park and cruise work, now often guide students toward it. Many performers at the Six Flags park in Gurnee, one of seven in the chain, are funneled there from Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., and what they learned in class helps them survive. "If you don't use proper vocal technique and warm your body up," says Diane Zandstra, 22, a Millikin graduate in her second summer at Gurnee, "you'll hurt yourself...
...play and Connell are at their best when the hero confronts his seemingly futile love for the beautiful Roxane. Cyrano is certain she will scorn him if he reveals his true feelings for her because, despite his bravado, he is monstrously insecure about the nose "which marches before him a quarter of an hour...
During the entire 15 minutes, not a single person even looked the man in the face. Instead, people averted their eyes and hurried past, thinly masking their pity, disgust and scorn. Each person who passed without acknowledging the man's presence heaped insult upon his injury...
...quarter of the student body which is dissatisfied with their faculty contact, Light has only scorn, blaming them for their lack of initiative. That's a neat answer to a messy problem...
...admits that Eliot believed in the idea of cultural uniformity and that he felt "some Jews" fought counter to this ideal. But she also defends the expatriate poet as "anti a great many things" and for whom, she says, Jews were not particularly important as an object of scorn...