Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Again, rollicking ethnic humor is couched in lacerating ethnic self-contempt. Someone ought to write a term paper investigating why almost all of the great U.S. comics on radio, stage, screen or TV come from ethnic enclaves...
Ignatius' ruling passion is his utter contempt for the modern age; its manifestations make his pyloric valve close, trapping gas in his cavernous stomach. His heart belongs to the early Middle Ages...
...contrast, Mark Dolson's heart is on fire for the Lord, and a fresh blaze it is. He has a trigger-lipped contempt for clerical authority. He believes that women and gays should be admitted to the priesthood. He loathes "consumerism" and, worst of all, has a fervent conviction that the words of Jesus, once heard and acted upon, will render the church redundant...
...after many Quincy House residents protested the showing of The Cheerleaders last fall and even though the society officers knew many would find the film offensive, they chose to ignore those feelings. In doing so, they displayed--in a manner far more obscene than anything on the celluloid--their contempt and indifference to those who would be hurt by the screening...
...ignore the violence in these hard-core images is impossible, but even soft-core porn is a form of violence. All pornography reduces women to dehumanized objects, available for men's sexual use. It changes sex from an act of love to one of hate and contempt. Women's individuality is defined solely by breast sizes and waist measurements. And finally, not only are women shown as passively acquiescing to male aggression, but they are portrayed as enjoying it. When women are seen as objects and not as thinking, feeling beings, atrocities of all kinds become possible...