Word: scornfully
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...thesis or a “capstone project.” The quaint notion of the “capstone project”—a vaguely-defined senior-year endeavor that does not have to involve original and intensive academic research or writing—deserves scorn, too, for providing seniors with what would likely become an easy way out of doing real work. Finally, we question the value of the report’s recommendation to delay concentration declarations, which would eliminate often essential first-semester sophomore tutorials...
...back as 1942, the writer Zora Neale Hurston lamented the attacks of those who would scapegoat the black underclass: "My people! My people! From the earliest rocking of my cradle days, I have heard this cry go up from Negro lips. It is forced outward by pity, scorn and hopeless resignation. It is called forth by the observations of one class of Negro on the doings of another branch of the brother in black...
...life in a time of a war. When I arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1971, just after serving a year in Vietnam, my personal experience was that not only was there a lack of appreciation for my service, I was instead treated with a bit of scorn for having served. I sincerely hope those who do not have the privilege of serving their country in the military will see fit to honor those who make that choice, such as my son, William Taylor ’04, and his six classmates who will receive their commissions as officers...
...this debate is that it remains a good marker in the culture wars. Political scientist John Green of Ohio's Akron University notes that the sense of sin integral to substitution theory informs the religious right's politics of individual morality. Indeed, substitution's top-down nature reaffirms conservatives' scorn of any rights that they feel lack God's biblical imprimatur. "The substitutionary understanding is humbling," says Mohler. "It has the Father in the position of satisfying his righteous demands of us through Christ's atonement. We don't have the authority to define our own existence or to claim...
...scorn that arises from my confession, I cannot act aloof about the fact that I might retain a few dozen more brain cells than my cable-enhanced companions. While I suppose I could be proud of my eccentricity, I have learned from experience that revealing this fun fact about myself is simply not in the same category as double-jointedness or coming from Guam. Unlike an entertaining personal anecdote or funky physical feature, TV-lessness brands you as a black hole in the universe of normal social interaction...