Word: scornful
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Music inspired him, Art fostered him. Born of Jewish parents in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), he claimed direct descent from King David, sweet singer of Israel. This regal lineage bred in him a scorn of Kings. The Tsar of all the Russias made him court painter. One day he painted a picture of the Crucifixion-Holy Mary, in peasant costume, her face twisted with anguish, weeping over the naked body of her peasant son. The authorities condemned the painting. Should peasants mourn their woes where privilege looked on? They displayed it in public with brands of white chalk smeared over...
...honorable gaffer, who deplored the low-lived ways of Stewa. Without virtue himself, Stewa appropriates Jenufa's. Months go by. She gives birth to a difficulty. Jenufa's stepmother pleads with Stewa. Will he not make Jenufa an Honest Woman? No, he will not, for Laca, in scorn and spite, has slashed Jenufa's cheek with a knife that her beauty may be blemished and his brother find her fair no longer. Stew Stewa falls in love with another lady. Laca calls on the stepmother. He would marry the girl himself, he says, but damme, he cannot...
...them put upon canvas scenes more revolting or more despicable in the cold-blooded and sordid vices they display than several which the evidence in this case has depicted. The cynicism of most of the characters in the drama provokes laughter, but it is laughter of amazement and of scorn. There is something ludicrous in this naked parade of greed and of obscenity; and the predominant impression it leaves in minds not squeamish over common frailties is that of unmitigated repugnance and disgust...
...early enthusiasm which greeted Harte's vigorous stories of the West has been replaced by no less immoderate scorn of their crude scenes and rough action. Abroad it is otherwise., "Even his detractors," writes Mr. Collins, "set Bret Harte in the same constellation with Poe and De Maupassant; and better balanced judges may look in vain for his superior in fire, originality, characterization, and range of power...
...Dave" Kirkwood, fiery Clydeside Laborite, stretched his index finger and pointed with scorn to the rash knight: "That," said he, "is a gentleman"; and there was no mistaking the grinding sarcasm...