Word: scornfully
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...society that masters moderate drinking. In wine-sipping France, the argument went, libation is just a small part of the broad festival of life, not the mind-altering prerequisite for a good time. The French don't wink like the English do at double-fisted drinking; they scorn people who lose control and get drunk in public. It's a neat argument. But it sounds a little Pollyannish now that France itself is grappling with widespread binge-drinking among its youth...
...that a large part of my angst stemmed from elitism. I liked to think that choosing an East-Coast college—especially one like Harvard—meant leaving these friends behind in order to grow up. But in truth, I had no right to scorn my friends for not conforming to my own idealized ambitions. I was mistaking having a beard for being an adult...
...light of the enormous contributions that Harvard and other Ivy League schools make to society, the fact that they must defend themselves so rigorously against public scorn is absurd. Far from serving as a bastion for the elite, the Ivy League has spearheaded the recent movement toward socioeconomic diversity in higher education. Rather than reinforcing social stratification, Harvard and its sister institutions promote social fluidity by generously subsidizing those students who could otherwise not afford a university education. Providing financial assistance to over two-thirds of all undergraduates, the University can no longer be accurately labeled as a club...
...stayed at the job for nearly a year, because he had promised he would. "I meant what I said and I said what I meant: An elephant's faithful one hundred percent." This time, his mission is even more perilous. He must fend off the agnostic scorn of prime jungle bureaucrat Jane Kangaroo and her simian minions the Wickersham brothers. Kangaroo charges a "black-bottomed eagle" to fly the speck to a remote spot and dump it in a giant field of clover, where Horton would have to overcome tremendous odds just to locate it. Actually, the Who-ville speck...
...classroom and I felt like God spoke to me and put this idea in my heart." The idea - encapsulated in the "Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change" - is a strikingly potent challenge to his denomination's official stance on global warming and to his own previous scorn. Yes, he says with a chuckle, "you could say the scales fell from my eyes...