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Our disdain for drugs and drug users goes very deep.
This antifat bias has become so integral, so ingrained to how we value ourselves and each other that we rarely question why we have such contempt for people of size and where that disdain comes from.
We hang out only with people who think like us and talk about the others in a category of disdain.
They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain and violence.
But worse still, assemblies of glass towers like this one in Moscow suggest a disdain for the civic and communal aspects of urban living.
But his conclusion was to look at me again, and with a look of disdain, say, "I told you, this is a private event.
And so we teach children to disdain anger in girls and women, and we grow up to be adults that penalize it.
We think of politics and anger in terms of the contempt and disdain and fury that are feeding a rise of macho-fascism in the world.
Women can sense that their culture views their bodies with confusion at best, outright disdain and disgust at worst.
(Speaks Spanish) We have lost the space for nuanced debate, we have no time, so we simply respond with approval or disdain, and we let algorithms take over.
And the rabbis and the early fathers of the church who said that any interpretation of scripture that bred hatred and disdain was illegitimate.
The editor said, with enormous disdain, "I read this.
The disdain shown for Flynn in this movie is palpable.
Oh I don't even have enough words to convey how much I disdain both the Tweety and Granny characters.
Chris Ricci sleepwalks her way through most of this, but then quickly takes on an air of boredom and disdain - much as I did when watching it.
It is a shame that Rush have had to overcome sneering disdain from the majority of North American and British music journalists over their thirty odd year history as this has deprived many people the chance to get into a real band.Each of the last four decades are well represented here and what a catalogue of songs it is!
That group becomes known as the Knight Sabers, and in addition to ring leader Sylia, her rag-tag band of rebel women included Priss Asagiri, a struggling rock and roll gal with a passion for motorcycles and a disdain for cops, Linna Yamazaki, an aerobics instructor with an eye for money and a tendency to blow through boyfriends, and Nene Romanova, a young officer of the ADP and expert computer hacker (the first in a long line).
It shows a stark portrayal of Larkins life as the greatest unrecognized poet of his era - which is exactly how he would have wanted it, such was his disdain for cankers and medallions.
Could it be that US critics' all-too-frequent disdain for females as warriors and thinkers that as in so many other cases has caused closed minds to misprize this estimable film's obvious anti-tyranny and pro-entertainment qualities?
In fact any film with Alistair Sim or Terry Thomas, George Cole, Richard Wattis or Joyce Grenfell or any combination is a delight. in ST TRINIAN'S we get a double dose of Sims playing two roles with that hilarious disdain he constantly lets ripple across his face.
Hollywood has finally come out in the open about their disdain for those of us, Yankee, Rebel, or otherwise, who still believe in honor, loyalty, trust, family, and doing the right thing even if it is not the popular thing.
I liked the idea that Dracula is actually a reincarnation of Judas Iscariot, because it does explain his disdain for all things Christian, but there was so much camp that this idea was not realized as much as it could have been.
Someone with less disdain for the "Hollywood convention" of traditional storytelling could create a wonderful film with this idea.
I always state my disdain for the show and tell him how bad it is.
There is also city man's disdain and feeling of superiority to the rural woodsman "cracker".
When this film opened back in 1976, legend has that it was met with massive jeering and disdain --- it was widely considered a failure.
The late Sir John Gielgud won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his flawless turn as Arthur's acid-tongued butler and best friend, Hobson, whose outward disdain for Arthur's behavior covers more paternal feelings.
Those who have given this production such a low rating probably have never seen the celebrated George Balanchine production live onstage, or are letting their disdain for the star casting of Macaulay Culkin influence their judgement.
Personally, I disdain The Jerry Springer Show, however, I found "Ringmaster" to be the funniest movie I've seen this year.
Under the circumstances, why then should they take their frustrations out on an anonymously unsuspecting and innocent Kansas family?.. Will Geer (Grandpa Walton) plays the prosecuting attorney who is sickened by this act of macabre capriciousness!! His argument is thoroughly convincing... His contention being: "These two men who demonstrated no mercy are now asking for yours" This is a line of logic which would induce me to render a verdict of a conviction if I were to be one of the members of the jury!! Absolute disdain for your precarious plight in life does not serve as vindication for orchestrating a capital crime!!
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