Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's the relentless but camera-shy investigative reporter who took a dangerous risk that won him instant respect and even quicker scorn...
...tail wagged the U.S. dog down 550 points--and then the dog barked back with 330 points up before returning to the kennel. Once again, the public deserved praise for its ability to put Hong Kong's woes in the correct, minuscule perspective, even as Wall Street bigwigs deserved scorn for trying to incite panic over a country that represents an infinitesimal amount of our commerce...
...surprisingly, the conservative Buckley has a lingering nostalgia for the Latin liturgy of old. Dripping scorn, he describes a nuptial Mass celebrated "according to the current cant, with everybody popping up and kneeling down." To Buckley, the jazzed-up ritual with its implicit boosterism ("Who do we appreciate--Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!") is "awful." In fairness, though, he could have mentioned some of the Tridentine excrescences that led to the Second Vatican Council's reforms: hymns of stunning vapidity and priests muttering their way through Low Mass with the graceless speed of tobacco auctioneers...
Whether or not her transformation is convincing--and Plum largely carries it off--one hates to see the work as a whole adopt the values of its own object of scorn. Simply in retitling the work The Heiress, the Goetzes define Catherine's character through her financial prospects. Nor do we delight in witnessing Catherine exchange her youthful naivete for such a bitter, scaly adulthood. This sour apple doesn't fall far from Dr. Sloper's withered tree...
Microsoft treated the reports with practiced scorn. "They're just false," said spokesman Greg Shaw. "They probably came from the same source that said we were buying CBS." As proof that the rumors are baseless, company insiders pointed to several upcoming MSN initiatives, including the release this week of a new upgrade, MSN 2.5, that offers better E-mail service and smoother integration with Microsoft's latest Web browser, Internet Explorer...