Scorn
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Our job "... is to hold up, as 'twere, a mirror to nature; to show
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her image, to show virtue her appearance, and the very age its form and pressure."
You put on the uniform, and you become invisible until someone is upset with you for whatever reason like you've blocked traffic with your truck, or you're taking a break too close to their home, or you're drinking coffee in their diner, and they will come and
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you, and tell you that they don't want you anywhere near them.
It's met with derision and
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Someone would arrive at my profile with the usual rage and scorn, I would respond with a custom mix of Bible verses, pop culture references and smiley faces.
In the case of the Greenland Norse, cultural factors that made it difficult for them to solve their problems were: their commitments to a Christian society investing heavily in cathedrals; their being a competitive-ranked chiefly society; and their
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for the Inuit, from whom they refused to learn.
Ignoring the jury’s scorn, Truth said she was there to fight for custody of her five-year-old son Peter, who’d been illegally sold to an enslaver in Alabama.
In 1904 Tangier, a wealthy American woman and her two children are kidnapped by Berbers, murderous desert pirates who
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the Moroccan government and, by doing so, kidnap "American pestilence", which attracts the attention of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
Usually we
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at "What if..." movies.
I don't see people heaping
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upon "Futurama" because the premise is very similar.
That all those attributes were once considered the norm and are now too often the subject of
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and cynicism is a reflection on our society rather than Miss Nesbit's.
At the end there were boos and
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from the meagre crowd left, which was quite sad as relatives of one of the main actors were present and looked really sheepish.
This small French film centers on put upon office secretary Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) who spends her days doing other men's jobs, uncredited, and being the source of their
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and lunchtime conversation which is all too clear to her as, being partially deaf, she reads lips.
Purist fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes usually heap
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and derision on Sherlock Holmes In Washington as it is not based in any way on one of Conan Doyle's stories.
A good documentary, not award winningly shot but the message is clear to see from the makers 'Don't get
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by porn' Not for the faint hearted, I saw this when it came out and every time i see it i still feel really bad for her and that i should do something about it, mainly to those directly responsible for corrupting her.
His work is treated with skepticism, unbelief, and
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by local authorities and medical doctors who would find his experiments too fantastic to accept despite all his efforts to persuade him otherwise.
would undoubtedly receive the
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and protests of the fundamental religious Right and Left.
I'm sure their collective
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reached epic heights when the underdog Democrat, Mathew Santos, edged out stalwart Republican Senator Arnold Vinick in the general election.
One of my favourites is the character Graham Lister, played by Bob, who was Vic's nemesis, appearing on Novelty Island (a kind of talent contest) each week with another hilarious failure of an act, and addressing Vic with complete
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as "Reeves".
His family and friends are shocked and full of
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and another man who also is smitten tries to kill him.
Predictably, however, Merkel’s ambitious speech elicited
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from Euroskeptics, who would much rather see the EU succumb to despair and political opportunism.
They so
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US foreign assistance that they have thrown open the doors to China’s new global leadership in development financing.
Rather than react out of blame, scorn, and distrust, both countries need to focus on rebuilding their own economic strength from within.
Its workforce labors round the clock and its inventiveness, energy, and diversity counter provincialism with
scorn.
The trigger for this wave of
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was Li’s sell-off of some of his prime Shanghai properties, after relocating his corporate registry from Hong Kong to the Cayman Islands.
During a crisis, these markets attract public attention and scorn, but, as the economy steadies, ordinary people lose interest, leaving the financial industry to control its own destiny with legislatures.
But Russia has recently met our efforts with scorn, from suspension of its participation in the Conventional Armed Forces Treaty to harassment of business people and cyber attacks on neighbors.
In the current political climate, he wears the
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of his Senate colleagues – he’s detested by almost all of them – as a badge of honor.
The Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman has poured
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on what he calls the “confidence fairy,” the claim that fiscal policy must command the support of the bond markets.
Tea Partiers and Occupy Wall Streeters alike now
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the Fed – whose legitimacy is based on abstract theories that assume away winners and losers, rather than on democratic accountability – for serving the interests of major banks.
Thereafter, a good Confucian could, with untroubled conscience,
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the Buddhist renunciation of the world.
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