Word: scornful
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...trend, as Manhattan tastemakers were quick to conclude? Perhaps. Levin was fond of describing his restaurant as "a place where people come to dine, not to eat." With a trace of scorn, he notes that people today are merely eating. Soule had a following that included a host's delight of the wealthy and famous. Levin tried to build a new, younger clientele, without much luck...
...while Judas begins as a humanist hero and Della Paresi is clearly a villain, it becomes progressively clear just how much Judas, the political revolutionary, and this unscrupulous priest resemble each other. They are both, in fact, unpleasant Ubermen-schen who see themselves as saviors of mankind but scorn all other men and other men's laws. Judas and Della Paresi agree that the meek will never inherit the earth...
...Israelis who live along the new border have become resentfully resigned to their endless occupation. Residents of Majdal Shams, a Druze town under snow-capped Mount Hermon in the north, are outspoken about their feelings. "Syria is our mother," says Sheik Mahmoud Safadi with patriarchal scorn. "Israel is our stepmother." One complaint appears to be that the Israelis are trying to collect taxes. "We never paid the Syrians, and we won't pay the Israelis," a Druze shopkeeper said indignantly. Yet Arabs are quietly making their own accommodations; they have little choice. In the Gaza Strip, where production...
...Sacramento last week, the California legislature struggled to assemble a final compromise on the 1972-73 state budget, 10.9% of which is devoted to higher education. Governor Ronald Reagan, who came into office in 1967 making no secret of his scorn for the liberals of the educational establishment, has recommended that the state put up a total of $382 million, some $58 million short of U.C.'s request, while the legislature's senate and assembly put the figure at $390 million and $395 million respectively. For the first time in three years, Reagan's budget offered...
...through the use of dancing girls, the camera focuses on the dancers' insipid expressions and stylized foot motions while the sound track conveys their uninspired attempts at music-making. Then, there is a close-up of the samurai's face stamped with a look of such marvelous scorn that the dancers become a spectacle of banality...