Sentences with phrase «knew of his disdain»

If only these people knew of his disdain for the elite.

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I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

And Trump is basically holding that up it seems, partly we don't know, but potentially partly as a result of his disdain for their reporting.

It's because women are no longer viewed with the disdain they once were in the patriarchal hierarchy of Rome.

it's insane how you know so little of your own religion and how you go against your Christs teaching with such arrogant and disdain towards atheist and other religions your nothing but a bigot and hatemonger your world is only black and white and you can't fathom how a country can have so many different people with different believes that don't match yours and can live peacefully without your christs.

Yesterday, I arrived in Austin nealry thirteen years later, and I remembered her, standing at the baggage claim 3 in the Austin airport, heading out on the adventure she disdained, and I loved her, the earnest know - it - all fool of her.

If you knew intimate details about my own past and the deep hurt I've endured, you would apologize — or maybe you wouldn't care at all; after all, most never consider that kind of thing, though their past encounters with «Christians» is enough to justify their life - long disdain for them in the eyes of the people that applaud them.

I know of Christians who care deeply about genocide and human trafficking and refugees and hunger... but who speak with disdain about the very reporters who so often bring these stories to light.

For this and many other reasons, the Jewish people disdained the Samaritans, and believed that they were no better than Gentiles, fit only for the destruction and judgment of God.

Harold Skimpole took a bright disdain for the drudgery of adult life — «I am a child, you know!»

Thou who first wast sensible of and didst first bear witness to that prodigious passion which disdains the dreadful conflict with the rage of the elements and with the powers of creation in order to strive with God; thou who first didst know that highest passion, the holy, pure and humble expression of the divine madness» which the pagans admired — forgive him who would speak in praise of thee, if he does not do it fittingly.

Over the years, I've seen that most of my conservative friends who are artistically inclined became so in spite of their conservatism — that is, despite the fact that the right - wingers they knew disdained the arts as effete and impractical.

... A number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others) released mainly as a result of human activity... Doomsday predictions can no longer be met with irony or disdain.

Now i know The level of decadence that is apparent in America is soo high that most people readily blame their own self conceived disdain for the current state of our nation on our leaders instead of trying to have faith and realize that there is nothing wrong with our current state.

â $ œThe Marxists Farmer had read, and many of the intellectuals he knew, disdained religion, and it was true that some versions of Christianity, and more than a few missionaries, invited impoverished Haitians into what Pere Lafontante called â $ ˜the cult of resignationâ $ ™, into accepting their lot patiently, anticipating the afterlifeâ $ ¦

C.S. Lewis's fictional villains often displayed a disdain for animals while Lewis, known to share bread with the mice of his house, was noted for his compassion.

Once again, most of you don't know any muslim people, and so you treat their religion with disdain.

Alyse and I laughed about our disdain for frisée... I did not know someone else shared my dislike of its curly texture and overall annoyingness when trying to cut / eat it.

Currywurst connoisseurs are well known for their unswerving loyalty to a particular Currywurst stand, disdaining all others as unworthy of their patronage.

The Luis Suarez debacle showed everyone just how out of touch Wenger is, we all knew Suarez was world class but Wenger and Arsenal still made a disrespectful offer which was rightly treated with disdain by Liverpool, in all honesty Arsenal never deserved to even have a chance of getting a player of Suarez's quality with Wenger still the manager he's useless to say the least!

Though he last worked in Lincoln as a GA in 2002, he still knows the grand unified theory of Nebraska, including a disdain for Bill Callahan's West Coast offense and all the stuff about just needing to do it the way it was done under Tom Osborne.

In case you don't know about Coach Tony, he is what I would call a «guy's guy»: a tough - talking «shock jock» - type of radio host who tends to shoot from the hip, and with a reputation for disdaining political correctness and for using outdated terms for people he doesn't like (I cringed while listening to an earlier show when he used the word «retarded» and «retard» more than a dozen times to describe a person he did not care for).

The wild turkey known to most locals as Tom — beloved by some and disdained by others - was trapped by an animal control officer after police received an increased number of complaints about him.

Martin was an extreme advocate of formal verse with precise rhyming and precise rhythm, and he, you know, he didn't make any he didn't hide this interest; and he had great disdain for poetry without structure.

The absurd disdain for calculating the real effects of UHI by the Ipcc, Real Climate et al - a very measurable effect known about since Ancient Rome - do nothing to help the case of the warmists.

For example, the tasty but totally disgusting ramen soup request was dismaying, but instead of refusing, I used it as a base for lots of beans and veggies, and because it was a known entity, it was acceptable yet a way to get them to eat things they would normally disdain.

But where a film like The Silence of the Lambs perversely reassures its captive audience that no matter the procreative ingenuity of a predator's unslakeable bloodlust, there's always a corn - fed, buttermilk - scrubbed farm girl there to put him away (and Taking Lives falls into this camp), there are films like granddaddy In Cold Blood (and great - grandpappy Psycho) that disdain the easy treatment of societal cancers.

With more limited screen time than they're used to and even more limited elbow room, the actors and characters (in what at least some knew would be their swan songs in these costumes) snap off one - liners and sharp remarks with an extra edge of sarcastic disdain.

Luckily, there's plenty of allegorical beef for everyone, as Grau paints a vivid picture of Mod Madness in steady, deteriorating orbit around the entropy and hedonism of the time — sprinkling it liberally with a disdain for dictatorships Grau no doubt nursed whilst working under the heel of Francisco Franco's regime.

Moreover, I hate that modern pop culture is so literalminded as to place a high premium on plausibility, while I'm 99 % sure that knowing the Batsuit could stop bullets off camera, too, is not going to convert any of the haters, whose snotty disdain for the superhero genre is more a fashion statement than an issue of disbelief.

As it is, the stilted claims at auteurism (he's known as the master of eye violence, mainly for a few juicy bits from The Beyond and Zombie) do more, perhaps, to relegate his work to a sort of camp gulag: the Siberia of legitimate cinema, where adolescent tools congregate for midnight showings armed with irony and a crippling baggage of disdain and contempt.

Morning proves too difficult as Johanna (Camilla Rutherford), current partner to the designer, disrupts the flow and routine in place with a final attempt to regain his attention — interrupting a sketching Reynolds with the offering of pastries invites a curt response expressing his disdain for such «gloopy» things and that frankly she should know this.

SB1416 has now morphed into an even uglier SB1313, championed by Rep. Paul Boyer, known for his disdain for parental authority in matters relating to the education of their children.

What they mean is, «big name» authors, with well - known publishers stamped on the side of their novels; I am treated with disdain for just stepping into their store, as though I'm going to poison it with my presence.

Fanfiction is a topic that generally invites disdain from the publishing industry for understandable reasons, although of course there has been attention since the outrageous success of Fifty Shades of Grey, which by now is commonly known to have been based on Twilight fanfiction.

Rebecca is Associate Director of the convention, but she is probably better known for her smart and funny posts at The Book Lady's Blog — on everything from author events, to new books to her disdain for Nicholas Sparks.

And there's Kateb, known to the Americans as Dodge, an Iraqi interpreter whose love of American culture - from hip - hop to the dog - eared copy of Huck Finn he carries - is matched only by his disdain for what Americans are doing to his country.

In fact, Buffet's disdain of this tea - leaf reading is well known.

No matter your level of respect or disdain for that little blue rodent this is a game worth exploring.

His comments here and elsewhere over time make clear that his skepticism is informed not by his command of the evidence and of the scientific method as it is practiced by actual scientists, but by his disdain for «orthodoxy» and his resentment at being told he doesn't know what he's talking about.

We are no longer in the heyday of climate denial and pro-oil pacts, and the electorate may punish Harper in the 2015 Canadian election for his outright disdain for the issue of climate change.

The result is very entertaining, inflammatory, and doubtless sells newspapers but does serious violence to the administration of justice and the presumption of innocence — two principles Ms. Blatchford has shown general disdain for on numerous prior occasions (unless the accused happens to be a police officer in which case she becomes a born - again believer in the Charter and all its myriad procedural rights heretofore known as «technicalities»).

If you are a frequent reader of this blog, you know my disdain for red light cameras.

Not only have we seen a torrential amount of leaks that pointed to a possible switch, but eliminating decades - old ports in the face of consumer disdain is the kind of thing Apple is known for doing.

Tetra, a new entrant in the cryptocurrency exchange sector, describes itself as a semi-decentralized, peer - to - peer exchange with an emphasis on security and usability Tetra will help create the next wave of cryptocoin adoption which will benefit all cryptocurrency users from investors to traders to businesses.The term peer - to - peer exchange tends to suggest the idea of a strong emphasis on privacy and anonymity, as well as a certain level of disdain for Know - Your - Customer KYC rules, meddling r

If you know without a shadow of a doubt that XYZ Corporation has a disdain for financial planners with a compliance background, by all means omit the keyword compliance.

Having something in common with your coworkers besides a mutual disdain for your careers will break up the monotony of your conversations, and hey, who knows, maybe you'll mix a smile in every here and there.