- To be
sardonic is to be
disdainfully or
cynically humorous, or
scornfully mocking. A form of wit or humour,
being sardonic often involves expressing an...
- In
colloquial usage,
contempt usually refers to
either the act of despising, or
having a
general lack of
respect for something. This set of
emotions generally...
-
normal and
healthy desires, wishes, and
needs with
something ugly and
disdainful".
Though Kafka never married, he held
marriage and
children in high esteem...
- tax bill Hamburger, Tom; Gold,
Matea (April 13, 2014). "Google, once
disdainful of lobbying, now a
master of
Washington influence". The
Washington Post...
- When
Alexander asked Diogenes what he
could do for him, the
philosopher disdainfully asked Alexander to
stand a
little to the side, as he was
blocking the...
-
about these young adults in that 'they were
reluctant to grow up' and '
disdainful of
earnest action'". Ben Stiller's 1994 film
Reality Bites also sought...
- years—was so
light as to
render the
trial a mockery. The Queen,
increasingly disdainful of the
Marlboroughs and her ministry,
finally took the
opportunity to...
-
ambiguity characterized his
opinions of
Joseph Stalin: in 1940 he
wrote disdainfully of the "Tyrant Stalin", but when
Stalin died in 1953, Du Bois
wrote a...
-
eliminated any hope of
higher education.
Later in life
Kubrick spoke disdainfully of his
education and of
American schooling as a whole,
maintaining that...
- made—handsome,
artfully crafted and acted. Smith, who
plays the
formidable and
disdainful Dowager Countess, has a
lovely way of
delivering words,
always spaced...
