Word: scornful
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...should Texans plant daffodils and tulips when native bluebonnets and prairie paintbrushes create such glorious displays? Why should Southern Californians, who are trying to reduce water consumption, plant thirsty impatiens rather than the vivid wildflowers that decorate nearby hillsides? Why should Chicago suburbanites plant petunias and geraniums but scorn the coneflowers and compass plants that once delighted westbound pioneers...
...Janine Wanee (Zulma) turn in performance of technical aplomb but little else. Mellander's inexpressive mime doesn't go beyond the essentials. Morris's Elvira is appropriately pitiful, but comes across more contentious than helpless, more an evil shrew than a hapless victim of a inane husband's scorn. And Wanee's Zulma, although not a major part, fades too easily into inconsequence...
...Gersten as a daughter forever finding herself, William Youmans as a good- natured but doltish son-in-law prone to getting beaten up (he does an exquisite ballet of pain as an arm in a sling gets wrenched anew) and Jack Wallace as a veteran cop full of salty scorn for anything he cannot understand. The opening act is a fast 90 minutes of wit and surprise; the shorter second act eventually winds down into wearying explication and mawkish reconciliation, yet a saving vitality lingers...
...TRIED PERSUASION. THEN HE OFFERED COMpromise. When that didn't work, Boris Yeltsin declared war. And that finally led to compromise. After eight days of haggling with Russia's supreme legislature, Russia's first | democratically elected leader took the podium on Thursday and proceeded to heap buckets of scorn upon the Congress of People's Deputies, a legislature populated with Soviet holdovers. Their simmering feud had finally boiled over. He blasted the body for "blocking reform," for orchestrating a "creeping coup." He accused Deputies of defiling the Kremlin meeting hall with "the sick ambitions of failed politicians." Then he called...
...cold war has removed the rationale for decades of extreme vigilance; the much discussed "peace dividend" will probably translate into military layoffs, equipment cuts, withdrawal from foreign posts and general retrenchment in prestige. The Tailhook scandals of sexual harassment have toppled high-ranking Navy officers and exposed to public scorn a kind of sexism that many in the military still cherish as "virility" and "blowing off steam." The one great victory of recent years, Desert Storm, was so quick and total that it scarcely tested the mettle of troops, and the persistence of Saddam Hussein makes the triumph appear almost...