Word: scornful
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Last week the world could see that Red China, with Red Russia, had gone ahunting after the tiger of freedom. And Mao had even voiced his scorn for the quarry -"a paper tiger...
...Fanatics. Orwell's purely literary essays are bound by a common thread of dislike for those excesses of thought, even the excesses of such greats as Tolstoy and Swift, which fringe on totalitarian fanaticism. In two brilliant essays he shows how scorn and lack of pity led Swift to portray the ideal Houyhnhnm society as a soulless mechanism, and how Tolstoy's harsh morality blinded him to the truth of Shakespeare's tragedies...
...girl who calls herself Eve Harrington appears at first to be sweet and sincere. Bette Davis is so anxious to help her succeed that she takes her on as a secretary and helper. Miss Davis's sympathy is soon transmuted to scorn and dread. The eventual efforts of the veteran actress to prove to her unsuspecting director sweetheart that Eve is evil only makes him redouble his efforts to help the girl. When Eve tries to seduce him he finally wakes...
...popular support. The fires had to be fanned. Since his twelve years in the Senate were a matter of public record, they were wide open to the scrutiny of his enemies. The C.I.O. kept a staff of men busy combing the Congressional Record for ammunition. Taft's lofty scorn for half-baked ideas, his blunt honesty, his long rear-guard battle against the charging revolution of the New Deal, his stubbornness, his querulous isolationism (which had a way of popping up again just when everybody thought he had overcome it), all could be turned around and used against...
...lyrical best, Frost owns a discipline of manner, an immaculate matching of thought and image, a native American voice unsurpassed by any American poet since Walt Whitman. For all his scorn of technical talk, he is as artful a technician as U.S. poetry has known...