Word: scornful
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...Magazine’s Top 10 College Women, which also recognized her co-authorship of a Princeton Review book about the gender gap in SAT scores. Now, as a self-identified feminist, she’s been called upon to defend her involvement in a pageant that some feminists scorn...
Poor play on the part of the U.S. team has always led to scorn, but so did its Cinderella performance in the 2002 tournament, when it reached the quarterfinal and lost narrowly to Germany. Worried European elites complained that arrogant Americans were on the verge of conquering the world of soccer. The success of women’s game in the United States—the best in the world—is perceived as another example of Americans perverting and subverting a venerable tradition. It is just as arrogant and threatening when Americans play well, according to European elites...
Love him or scorn him: Richard Grasso, chief of the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.), is drawing strongly mixed signals of affection and rejection these days. At a civic function in New York City last week, Robert Nardelli, head of Home Depot, told Grasso that he would love to have him on his board--again--if he ever leaves the exchange. While Nardelli was wooing Grasso, seat holders at the exchange were doing their level best to make the N.Y.S.E. boss available, drumming up support for a special meeting that could lead to Grasso's resignation...
...often you hear Supreme Court Justices treat their brethren with such scorn, or trash a recent decision as being dead wrong--or see lawyers weep as a ruling is read. But Thursday was an emotional day inside and outside the court, as preachers prayed and scholars marveled and gay-rights activists struggled to find the right words, since they were more used to slamming the court than saluting...
...because it gets no respect. In particular, it gets no respect from its neighbor across the Hudson River. When you work in Manhattan, as I have for each of the past two summers, you get a pretty good idea of just how much New Yorkers love to scorn New Jersey. City-dwellers, it would seem, generally have the utmost contempt for the Garden State—that is, until they get married, have children and decide to move there for bigger houses, better public schools and, oh yeah, grass...