Word: scornful
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...object of this scorn walks into his trailer, where I'm waiting to put a magnifying glass on him, and says, "Hey, what's up?" in a slight Midwestern drawl. Gordon grew up in California, but his parents moved him to Indiana at 14 because he'd been racing midget cars since he was a five-year-old, and there was more action in Indiana...
Even more than the sunshine, though, talking with my friends has dissuaded me from my studies. Telling them my schedule elicits scorn--of course, I do only have 20 pages (15 of which are already written) and two exams...
...Hemingway's writing as mereform assume a total merging of form and meaning inthe bravado and masculine ritual thatcharacterized Hemingway's writing and his cult ofpersonality: it is imagined that what appearsadolescent and foolish is merely adolescent andfoolish, driven by the same insecurities thatdrive adolescents. Thus there is only scorn forthe behavior described by Malcolm Cowley in 1925,just a year after the publication of Hemingway'sfirst full-length collection of short stories...
...would later transform into one of the court's most progressive jurists, winning him praise from victim's right advocacy groups and scorn from the conservatives who had originally supported his appointment...
...sacrificial victim should be someone of unquestioned high reputation--no going after easy prey like Henry Hyde or Dan Burton. The time limit should be one year. Bring the charges to the House of Representatives, shame the guy, laugh him to scorn, let the newsboys chew on him, let him crawl and cringe and beg forgiveness and then hand the keys to the prosecutor's office over to the other side...