Word: scornful
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...corrupt, at the moderates for being corruptible, at the liberals for being fainthearted, at the mob for being brute-minded. As protest, An Enemy is frequently valid, though as playwriting it is too pat and contrived: the play is less interesting for its social protest than for its individualist scorn...
...invading Pathans burst as uninvited guests. Some cleanly chronicled violence whets The Scarlet Sword's edge. But no amount of honing can file away such a collection of rusty cliches as the turnabout of the shunned prostitute who finally reveals her heart of gold; Correspondent Crane's scorn at first sight and love at second for the English girl he meets at the mission; and the transformation of the dreamy bumpkin (this time clothed in clerical robes) into a two-fisted fighting man when the battle starts...
...compromise proposed by Charles Spofford, U.S. representative to the North Atlantic Council of Deputies, which would permit the Germans to raise defense units of 4,000 to 5,000 men each, i.e., regimental combat teams, up to a total of 150,000. The Germans, however, treated this proposition with scorn, made it clear that they would settle for nothing less than division organizations, manned, staffed and commanded by Germans...
...Actress Minna Planer), when he composed The Flying Dutchman, Tannähuser, Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde, and they hardly reveal a new Richard Wagner. Rather, they amplify the old one-the "Archegotist" who called on his friends to pick up the checks and often gave them his scorn in return, the German genius who believed the world owed him both a living and its unbounded love, and offered it great operas in return...
...young boy I overheard the other day was explaining to his mother about a blackboard set he had his heart set on. The sales lady treated his arguments with a certain scorn and pointed out that blackboards, after all, were made for little children; was he sure that a nice photo-electric cell, or potentiometer wouldn't be better...