Sentences with phrase «certain disdain»

"Certain disdain" means a strong feeling of dislike or disrespect that is specific and definite. Full definition
In his essay «The Golden Rule in the Light of New Insight,» Harvard psychoanalyst Erik Erikson comments: «systematic students of ethics often indicate a certain disdain for this all - too - primitive ancestor of more logical principles; and Bernard Shaw found the rule an easy target: don't do to another what you would like to be done by, he warned, because his tastes may differ from yours» (Insight and Responsibility [Norton, 1964], p. 226).
For all this, some sober scholars scoffed at Harvey Cox and cultivated a certain disdain for «relevance» and «being with it,» and indeed for religion masquerading as sociology, and piety that was now squeezed into a new mold of merely social change, not change of soul.
Miliband will continue to be regarded with a certain disdain, for he has not yet got round to coming up with the alternatives which would make Labour a more powerful force.
While I still hold a certain disdain for Take This Waltz, it's clear that Polley is someone we should cherish.
Eli will discuss research faculty in the next post of this series That's right bunnies, yrs truly either hustles up an additional third of his salary, or endures a certain disdain from Ms. Rabett.
They (Steig and Mann mainly) do seem to have a blind faith in exotic unproven methods and a certain disdain for common sense methods.
If you're looking for a job with any employer who expects you to be driving on company time, you're going to be waiting awhile if they know that you have a certain disdain for stop signs and speed limits.
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