Word: scornful
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...wild? Students who only care about partying? Professors who aren't experts? Young Mr. Desmond, are you sure that you conducted your research at Harvard University? The one in Cambridge? If that's the most accurate research you can conduct, the Harvard admissions office--whose offer you most gleefully scorn--might want to reconsider its decision...
...both Tsongas and Wilder could attract support by running against type. Unlike most black Democratic politicians, Wilder has made fiscal austerity his mantra. He heaps scorn on the Democrats' inside-the-Beltway leadership, which he accuses of "strengthening the two-party system -- the party inside Washington and the party of the people outside...
They gathered to demonstrate their unity to the world. Yet in the breaks between their formal sessions of solidarity posing at Beirut's Bristol Hotel last week, the disparate members of the Iraqi opposition could not resist heaping scorn on one another. Someone noted that before Youssef al-Durrah joined the Democratic Movement, he served as Saddam Hussein's press director. A rival pointed out that Hassan Alawi of the Arab Independents once worked as Saddam's speechwriter. And that communist, Naziha Doulaimi? Well, a critic readily volunteered, she had once been a full member of Saddam's Cabinet...
When General Norman Schwarzkopf was asked to evaluate Saddam Hussein as a military leader last week, the allied commander telegraphed his answer with a derisive "Ha!" Then, with studied scorn, Schwarzkopf elaborated, "He is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military...
...about his inner stuff. What this may suggest is one more flaw in our system of political assessment. In our dizzy campaigns we analyze a candidate too much from a few one-liners lofted by adversaries or twits. In the debate over terribly complex domestic issues, we frequently heap scorn on even marginally open minds that waver...