Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first Mike lounges warily in Claire's palatial digs, tossing newspaper wads into the sconces. Mike considers her with the outsider's mixture of scorn and awe. But why should he consider her at all? He is at ease in the world outside Manhattan; he has a loving wife (Lorraine Bracco) and a fine young son. For that matter, why should Claire think of Mike as anything but a nuisance or a clown? He shadows her everywhere, mangles the language and dresses like a used-car salesman at Sunday Mass. Yet she responds to his strength. Though...
...APPEARS that the English are unwilling to work for no pay. They subscribe to the wholly rational theory that future employers--if there are such a thing in these uncertain economic times--will look with righteous scorn upon such futile experience. Someone they feel who is either foolish or rich enough to work for nothing while still a penniless youth undoubtedly will still be both foolish and rich enough to do so later. Ergo, a distinct lack of natives chomping at the bit to join the lowly hordes of parliamentary researchers...
...that he has a chance to hang it in the chambers of the Supreme Court, a fight has been raging over just what kind of constitutional construction Bork would practice there. His writings and public statements, plentiful and forcefully expressed, make clear his scorn for many of the court's landmark decisions; they are less clear about which of those he would actually seek to overturn. Despite the instances where Bork has stepped back from earlier positions, and the ambiguity of some of his appeals court rulings, one thing is clear from his 25 years of unflinching and outspoken legal...
Bork's special scorn has been reserved for the court's expansions of individual and civil rights in the past four decades. Among the decisions that Bork has blasted as groundless and unconstitutional: a seminal 1948 decision, Shelley v. Kraemer, that denied state courts the authority to enforce racially restrictive agreements between sellers and buyers; Griswold v. Connecticut, which in 1965 struck down a state law forbidding the use of contraceptives even by married couples; the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that extended the right of privacy to protect abortion; and the 1978 Bakke v. University of California decision that...
While they honor Ali, the Sunnis do not venerate their imams as divine intercessors. Sunni imams mainly conduct community prayers. Each Sunni (from sunna, "the tradition of the Prophet") believes he can have a direct relationship with God. While the Sunnis scorn emotional outbursts and engage in private, meditative piety, Shi'ites are more likely to indulge in displays of religious ardor. Indeed, the Sunnis, who consider themselves the orthodoxy, did not accept Shi'ism as a legitimate school of Islam until...