Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commerce was dislocated. The struggle that Natchez has dreaded for four years had begun in earnest: the two garden clubs of the town were in open battle.Natchez citizens heard the sinister sound that is produced only by the flouncing of hoop skirts to the accompaniment of a sniff of disdain...
These failings of the bill are serious. Because any form of military regimentation is serious-in that it makes for totalitarianism and promotes disdain for the parliamentary system-conscription is essentially dangerous to a democracy. But in an organic world, overrun as is ours by mad dogs, it is fatal to be complacently defenseless. The need for strength is here. Let not the strength be used for the perversion of democratic ideals, but rather for their preservation...
...bombs swelled to widespread showers by day, then to fierce successive cloudbursts at all hours, delivered not only by lofty level-flight bombers but by scores of Stukas which dived shrieking to demoralize men on the ground, machine-gunning people and cattle indiscriminately. Iron censorship and brave British disdain concealed the true extent of damages and loss of life, but both rose inevitably as the official daily tallies of shot-down German raiders rose from a half-dozen to a dozen, then to a score. Germany was trying to "soften up" Britain, apparently in preparation for real mass attack, then...
...preface Hans Zinsser takes heart in a remark of Sainte-Beuve's: "Nothing is so painful to me as the disdain with which one often treats writers of the second rank, as if there were room only for those of the first." Considering the number and excellence of the second rank, As I Remember Him may belong, rather, to the third. But for any book half as abundant and a tenth as likable, there is room and welcome...
Until last week old-style investment bankers led by Manhattan's Morgan Stanley & Co. relied on argument and an attitude of dignified disdain to discourage competitive bidding for corporate securities. Their argument: competitive bidding disrupts the banker-client relationship ("You might as well get bids on an appendectomy...