Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to reclaim your anonymity. Like a state trooper who keeps hundreds from speeding by pulling over one scofflaw, McGann might have slowed down a few philanderers with a decisive show of force. But she resisted playing to the crowd or saving face, to the near universal scorn of the sisterhood. "I didn't know that feminists had decreed what the politically correct rules were for personal relationships," she says. "I did what was right...
...retro, romantic musical about the rich and pampered? Sounds like something most American moviegoers would scorn as passe. But Allen is still a believer in the traditional musical, however out of vogue. "It always depends on the quality of the work. If My Fair Lady came out tomorrow, people would love it." He'd eventually like to do a traditional musical with original songs, he says. But that, of course, means finding songs. Says Allen, sighing: "If only Lerner and Loewe were alive...
...Americans can readily identify Pamela Churchill Harriman, born Pamela Beryl Digby 76 years ago in England and currently U.S. ambassador to France. But in the international world of the redundantly rich and overpowered, she has been an object of desire, scorn, envy and grudging respect for more than 50 years...
...presidential debates, he exclaimed, "Now if you ask Newt Gingrich if he's a right-winger, he'll say, you bet!" Clinton, he said, just looks at the polls to see which way he should vote...and even then gets it wrong. But to keep the record straight, his scorn is reserved for Bill Clinton; Hillary Rodham, "or Hillary Clinton, the male-user-friendly name," elicits the approving declaration, "I think she's one hot shit-kicking babe!" A picture of the First Lady in a cowboy hat and shades was propped up onstage during Moore's speech...
...Kaufman is correct in pointing out that the first people to receive my scorn are the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association (BGLSA), not because they are any worse than the others, but merely because "B" precedes most of the other letters in the alphabet. I shall never apologize for writing that this group is manifestly opposed to traditional Christian values. "Christian values according to whom?" According to the revealed word of God, Josh. Not Gomes. God. Mr. Kaufman is also mistaken in believing that I want office space doled out only to group I deem to be politically correct...