Word: scornful
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...nunnish dependent (Catherine Deneuve) until she snatches the dominating role away from him, becoming perhaps the crueler tyrant. The story threads lightly, revealing rather than obscuring the texture of snow-particles skitting across the granite of the church; the walled and narrow-streeted Spanish village; the suffering and scorn in Deneuve's bloodless face; the wrench of Catholicism. The surrealism here is not extraneous or forced-it arises out of the material. Instead of a shock show of the contorted and bizarre, the film glides with the constant expectation of something more subtly strange, the ever-present possibility that some...
...this trend developed, it became fashionable to scorn the critic who still believed in "give 'em the plot" as a reasonable basis for the review. Certainly, if the review is nothing but a plot summary, there is little to recommend it; but I think it's a mistake to categorically avoid detailing aspects of the plot as a general principle. For one thing, the reader, regardless of whether or not he has seen the film, has much more difficulty in knowing what the critic is talking about if the critic refuses to be specific. But perhaps more serious, the deliberate...
...simply that thousands of Americans, as teachers, nurses or lab workers, find more gratification in their work than they might have found in opportunities that would have paid them better. Partly from envy, such people may even scorn the compromises, shortcuts or betrayals on which (at least in their view) other successful careers are built. But there is more to it than envy. Such essential qualities as character, honor, decency, intelligence, lovableness, dependability, common sense, humor and perception are randomly dispersed in the population and do not necessarily ascend on a parallel curve with a man's economic status...
...depressed southern Mezzogiorno and worker housing in its home city of Turin. Umberto Agnelli criticizes the unions for not taking these expenditures into account when pressing for wage increases to catch up with the cost of living, spiraling at the rate of 15.6% annually; but his greatest scorn is reserved for the government. "There is no economic plan," he says acidly, "no consistent framework within which to operate. It would be possible to run the company like a civil servant, but that certainly is not what I want." Unless the government can find some way to alleviate the effects...
Well the runway lies ahead like a great false dawn, Fat lady, big mama, Missy Bimbo sits in her chair and yawns, And the man-beast lies in his cage sniffin 'popcorn And the midget licks his fingers and suffers Missy Bimbo's scorn Circus town's been born...