Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force of the play behind it -seems manipulated, its effect on Juno mawkish. But it is proof of O'Casey's real power that his Paycock should remain comic from start to finish. The Paycock is a callous wastrel for whom O'Casey has only bitter scorn; but he is a born "character," and O'Casey lets him cut his capers without ever railing...
Ever since the Guild was founded in 1933 there had been rumblings of discord in its bowels : accusations of Communism, scorn fully ignored, factional bitterness, quietly suppressed...
Probably no modern work of history or fiction ranks as such a thorough, lucid, conclusive payoff on war as Verdun. This it is, not through a mere presentation of the sickening personal truth of "combat" (Remarque) nor through scorn and excitement crystallized in art (Hemingway), but through a grownup, sympathetic intelligence. If Romains goes on so, he will have given the first grand perspective on war since War and Peace...
Wags in busy, whirring Seattle joke about the woman who told a census taker: "I have three sons, two living and one in Portland." Easy-going Portlanders scorn their frenetic rival to the north, refer with somnolent pride to their "city where it's always afternoon...