Word: scornful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...kits and books arouse the scorn of some longtime enthusiasts. "macramé is a beautiful and old art form," says Mrs. Christa Mayer, curator of textiles at the Chicago Art Institute, "but it is being sadly cheapened by the how-to books." Although macramé's pragmatic virtues are stressed in its latest incarnation, it retains its artistic values. New York's Museum of American Folk Art has just opened an exhibition of the more splendid examples. Among the items on display: an Inca hat, delicate macramé lace from 17th century Genoa, and fur rugs macram...
...idealistic radicals whose militance had not crushed every bit of love they had out of them. Friends gathered, hugged, and began to care about each other. Perhaps it was the rock concert Saturday night and the people who came to hear it. Everyone on The Land had nothing but scorn for the "weekend hippies" across the road who, it was felt, would leave before the action started Monday. The radicals with their commitment had no use for the freaks with their acid and bummers. It was the first time the people at The Land could unite about anything; after days...
...with the possible exception of Harvard, which regards almost anyone with unaffected scorn anyway, and Cornell, who few really know much about, each Ivy brother holds another in undiluted contempt for one obscure reason or another...
...domestic area, Brezhnev pointedly praised the KGB (secret police) and called for greater vigilance against "bourgeois influences." He derided intellectuals who distort Soviet reality. All they deserve, he said, is "general scorn." Without naming names, Brezhnev upbraided Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn for dwelling on "problems that have been irreversibly relegated to the past." Then, in an evenhanded manner, Brezhnev rapped ultraconservative Soviet writers who "attempt to whitewash the past" by praising Joseph Stalin. Among his other points...
...Economics in the United States for 15 years before his return to Greece in 1960. Yet his increasingly independent stand on the NATO alliance and the U.S. infiltration of the Greek secret police-combined with his immense popularity-made him the principal target of right-wing agitation and scorn. The coup of April 21 tells the rest of the story...