Word: scornful
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...Despite this heritage, the Congress has been, in too many cases, more than willing to walk away from its Constitutional powers,” Byrd said. “We have turned a blind eye to the Bush administration’s ruthless pursuit of power—we scorn those nations which have long been our friends...
...takes place in 8th century Japan. It begins cruelly as the newborn Gao tumbles down a rock face when his father slips while on the way to pay homage to the mountain spirit. Fifteen years later, the one-armed, one-eyed Gao has become the village pariah. When their scorn becomes more than he can bear he unleashes a savagely violent revenge that begins his days as a hunted, merciless bandit. And yet, in a moment that I missed on the first read, during a breathless chase scene, he puts a ladybug out of harm's way. During his travels...
...After eating there Ms. Bernstein couldn't even afford a colorful adjective. The insane prices bother me, but I'm completely mystified by Londoners' lack of indignation. In New York City, the cab drivers recently won a fare hike, bringing their rates to within 50% of London cabbies'. The scorn heaped on the New York drivers was venomous - and not just because they now charge 25% more to take you in the opposite direction from where you want to go. New Yorkers believe an almost-sort-of-affordable city is a civil right, and anyone who threatens that right deserves...
...thesis or a “capstone project.” The quaint notion of the “capstone project”—a vaguely-defined senior-year endeavor that does not have to involve original and intensive academic research or writing—deserves scorn, too, for providing seniors with what would likely become an easy way out of doing real work. Finally, we question the value of the report’s recommendation to delay concentration declarations, which would eliminate often essential first-semester sophomore tutorials...
...back as 1942, the writer Zora Neale Hurston lamented the attacks of those who would scapegoat the black underclass: "My people! My people! From the earliest rocking of my cradle days, I have heard this cry go up from Negro lips. It is forced outward by pity, scorn and hopeless resignation. It is called forth by the observations of one class of Negro on the doings of another branch of the brother in black...