Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rhetorical stiffness of Mr. Baldry's sentence, that is because he, like his critic, is a Britisher, and this quality is an immemorial part of the British intellect-an intellect never so ponderous as when it is airy and never so supple as when it is hard with scorn...
...wrong. On the contrary, the impression one gains is that most of it is right. There is, to be sure, a fairly general failure to recognize the value of discipline simply as discipline. Side by side stand two critiques of English courses, the first of which proclaims utter scorn of collegiate study of "elementary grammar," and the second of which opens with a sentence that involves a glaring fault in sequence of tenses. This is laughable enough, and possibly serious. But other reviewers show a warm recognition even of the worth of discipline, whenever the hand that guides...
From the opposing school of thought (those who believe anti-aircraft guns to be impotent) poured billows of scorn. It was pointed out that the targets had been dangled and dandled within a mere eight or nine feet of the guns, while an enemy fleet would never think of attacking at less than 10,000 feet. It was recalled that enemy planes would be carefully disguised as to color, and that dark blue is said to possess the highest possible air-target visibility. Nineteen successes in 16,000 trials were contrasted unfavorably with the chances for a zero in roulette...
...diabetes," said Dr. George T. Harding, father of the late President, to a pressman. The old man thinly raised his voice, expressed his scorn for the insulin treatment favored by the American Medical Association. Said...
...make my "gorge rise." Undertakers render a genuine and necessary service to society and they deserve all the more sympathy if that service is one which the average man finds unpleasant. They have every right to discuss the technique of their work and its improvement without arousing anger or scorn. I may add, also, for presumably it is not forbidden the son of an undertaker to have his lighter moments, that an undertaker is usually called upon after a doctor has failed in his work. Undertaking may not be a branch of Medicine, but at least it is a worthy...