Word: scornful
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...scorn of Harvard is tears, especially at this time of year, and those years are the price I pay for my life...
...heresy to the Left Bank literati and their grand panjandrum, Jean-Paul Sartre. Algeria was racked by violent attempts to liberate itself from colonialism; these would succeed two years after Camus's death. His pained middle position on the Algerian question -- deploring the atrocities committed by both sides -- drew scorn from the right and left, particularly Sartre and his circle, those existentialists who managed to find a place in their theory of limitless freedom for doctrinaire Marxism...
...they forget that every "white" person descends from an "ethnic" person. And as a recent study on European immigrants by Leonard Dinnerstein and David Reimers shows, many white immigrants faced a level of scorn that exceeds the discrimination Asians and Latinos face today...
...Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in glided halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn or condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil...
...student body can decide what the intellectual level of campus opinion writing should be by changing its attitude towards debate. Fatuous scorn has no place in editorial writing. After all, hunh hunh....Beavis sucks....hunh hunh hunh hunh...