Word: scornfully
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...Entertaining the idea of mind-body duality invites the scorn of those who regard any attempt to dabble beyond the boundaries of conventional science as a waste of time. But that's the point, say others: NDEs don't fit into our current understanding of the brain. They shouldn't happen, yet they do. The task is to build new models in which they...
...Iranian films often refracted social drama through the prism of a young girl's viewpoint. Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical cartoon is the tale of her life in Tehran under two despots, the Shah and the Ayatollah. Harrowing yet buoyant, Persepolis earned the Jury Prize at Cannes and the official scorn of the Iranian clerics...
...winners - Max Crumm and Laura Osnes - and their show are on Broadway, and the critics have dutifully taken up their assigned role, heaping scorn on this populist invasion of the Great White Way. The New York Post called the new Grease "sad"; the Daily News found it "lackluster." Sniffed Ben Brantley in the Times, the show "feels like a musical put on by a high school - and I don't mean a high school of performing arts." Ouch...
...observes Arvind Sharma, one of Singh's former employees, now a rival hotelier in Mandawa. But how will the wealthy Marwaris of Kolkata treat the scion of their erstwhile liege? Will they remember the bad old days when their families clung to the walls of his castle, treated with scorn as grubby moneylenders? "No, no, we treat all maharajahs with great respect," says Rajesh Khaitan, a prominent Marwari lawyer and ex-politician, sipping coffee in the city's elite Bengal Club. "But speaking for myself, I may not give much money." Being a maharajah, alas, isn't what it used...
...think the Cambridge Chronicle has been lying in wait for Reeves for a long time. If there is a media basis for the attack on Reeves, it is the weekly paper of record that has beat up on him constantly and to which he in turn has shown his scorn for some time,” Koocher says...