Sentences with phrase «while disdaining»

It is often noted, for example, that Americans tend to rate their local schools more favorably than those of the nation — much as they regard their own members of Congress quite highly while disdaining Congress as a whole.

There's the familiar Northwest paradox of everyone trying to be rich and famous while disdaining all things rich and famous as sellouts or lame or whatever.

Not exact matches

Not so long ago, a man who agreed to look after the kids while his wife brought home the bacon would elicit raised eyebrows and gentle disdain.

While fans may use Twitter to express their love or disdain for players, the NBA has a much higher purpose for its engagement.

While some of the disdain is deserved, there are a handful of misconceptions about hedge funds — particularly long / short equity — among the media and investors that are worth clearing up.

Contemporary romantics are given to disdaining the etiquette tradition of their own modern culture, while waxing sentimental over similar practices in what they regard as more authentic cultures.

The mentality that Rauschenbusch deployed to seduce his readers — the turn away from troubling debates about doctrine, the shift from personal salvation to social reform, and the reassurance that progressive disdain for traditional religion was in fact a sign of a more authentic and scientific faith — provided a way to remain Christian while setting aside whatever seems incompatible with modern life.

For the Greek citizen of old, leisure and play were what were truly worthwhile, while the workaday world was viewed with disdain.

While they talk about being «pragmatists», the consultant and lobbyist classes are just as driven by «gut instinct and guru - ism» as the Tea Party insurgents they fear and disdain.

David, it is not people that I disDain, it is the bad ideas they hold (while others may be wonderful)-- especially the dangerous ones.

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.

While comedians may not experience nerves in the way people expect, no gag merchant is without fear of widespread disdain or disinterest.

While it is true that it is the fans that are most vocal about their allegiance for their clubs and disdain for rival clubs, there are some players who simply can not separate their personal affiliations from their performances on and off the pitch.

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).

While Johnson's suggestion that the UK should be positive about Trump prompted some derision in the Commons chamber, MPs such as the SNP's Mhairi Black also took to Twitter to express their disdain.

Suffixes aside, while identification with a particular area may have offered an aura of specialism in political geography, a disdain for area studies and «area studies specialists» is emerging.

In short, Cuomo embraces political wheeling and dealing, while Bloomberg disdains politicking, even as he engages in it.

The President said the judiciary was his problem, while the legislature holds the judiciary in disdain, even as lawyers who lose their cases condemn the Bench.

Both were fairly relentless in their criticisms, but Redlich was often more lighthearted and received laughs from the crowd (which was asked to be silent for the debate but ignored that request entirely), while Barron's deep disdain for Cuomo was unmistakable.

Some outfits I think I look really good in, while with others, I discover (sometimes, to my disdain, after wearing them) I have learned just are not very flattering on me.

Men indicated they especially disliked when a partner concealed the cost of something, while women showed particular disdain towards being told how and when to spend her cash.

You see, while Monolift Soft's Xenoblade Chronicles 2, is stated as being a sequel to 2010's Xenoblade Chronicles, it's not because it's a continuation, as Xenoblade Chronicles 2 features an entirely different world that tells a new story, but because Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is more like the original game as opposed to Xenoblade Chronicles X. Xenoblade X was met with some disdain due to tearing a couple of pages out of the rule book that was used to define Xenoblade Chronicles, before burning them.

It's a film that disdains the hysterical screeching of Divine Secrets of the Ya - Ya Sisterhood in favour of pleasant understatement and measured response — the rare movie about women that respects them while offering some genuinely funny moments based on character rather than absurd situations.

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.

While we can sympathize with her plight, we never really get a real feel for just who she is, why she does what she does, and how she manages to endure the insults and disdain she is shown on a daily basis from the men too self - absorbed to realize they are creating their own despair.

With his unparalleled ability to remain endearing while expressing total disdain for everyone around him, it's no wonder that John Cusack has so far starred in three King adaptations, Stand by Me, 1408 and The Cell in 2016.

She still burns for him, even in vampire form, while the many decades spent confined in captivity have heightened his disdain for her.

Sandler delivers his signature, low energy disdain for everything, while James joins along with his anticipated lovable dope routine.

Scroll back through time and you'll find people either defending the Sega Saturn's only original Sonic game while having a strong disdain for the BGM, while recent YouTube comments would have you believe the opposite.

Ah, but Astin's brilliance only furthers the rub: «The Addams Family» mocks Gomez's ardour while simultaneously arranging marriages for various friends and relatives with a smile and a shrug, marking off yet another concept worthy of disdain: passionate sexual relationships.

These man - on - the - street pontifications, which were represented as random, expressed support for Kerry, Gregoire, and I - 884, while showing disdain for public charter schools and incumbent schools superintendent Terry Bergeson.

Sharp crests and compressions are shrugged off with disdain, while mid-corner bumps are steamrollered into submission.

Some of the people I grew up with were rabidly proud of living there, while others disdained it and couldn't get away fast enough.

I was actually seeing a shrink, trying to figure out why I had such disdain for both men and women while, at times, being sexually attracted to both.

I was actually seeing a shrink, trying to figure out why I had such disdain for both men and women while, at times, being sexually...

While we see Cromwell's ruthless disdain for Queen Anne, it is easy to forget that he will years later end up on the same scaffold where Anne's reign as queen ended.

While low - ratio stocks are viewed with disdain in some quarters, studies show that they tend to outperform over the long term.

While I have mentioned this earlier, I have done so only to express my personal disdain for the concept of retiring early with the proclamation that it's not for me.

One of your cats might scale the walls in her determination to catch that red laser dot while your other feline housemate looks on with disdain and apathy.

While I respect the person at the library as a fellow human being, I have nothing but disdain for your subhuman behavior.

Buying it a year or two later at a discount, so we have a better idea and wider range of games to play while showing or begrudging disdain for them further pushing, mistakes.

If you've ever wanted to espouse your love for Mega Man, Q * bert, and other famous game characters while sharing your disdain for working in cubicles, this is the tee for you!

Rosemarie Trockel turns her knits and conceptual art into an entire natural history, while Mark Flood covers his disdain with lace abstractions.

But for years it has disdained actually saying anything about the state of the medium in exhibition form, and all the while painting has developed actively on numerous fronts.

While most prestigious museums disdain the art of the moment or restrict it to the occasional one - person exhibition, the Whitney attempts the nearly impossible task of telling the public what has been going on in art over the past two years and, theoretically, what might happen during the next two.

The few non-profit organizations that have continued to participate throughout the years are given places of alternately privilege and disdain: Artists Space and White Columns are in a premium spot overlooking the establishment sixth floor, while Printed Matter is literally shoved out of the way under a staircase.

Some of the world's most powerful belief systems are at odds, some of which openly seek the dissolution of the material world and all things in it, while others hold the exact opposite view; some place a divine premium on achieving the overarching ambitions of the faithful to the extent of utterly disdaining truth or fact, while others hold no regard for the ambitions of any person or people so long as fact is held supreme.

I really have acquired a taste for REtech companies lately — Trulia was kinda like Chinese food, I was hungry for more after only an hour but I think Zillow can provide me with so many more vitamins and minerals to keep my growing disdain for business stupidity sustained for a while.

Mine actually comes when you whistle, and he totally fetches twist - ties (while still retaining the feline look - of - utter - disdain for appropriate times, like when I ask him to move off my keyboard so I can type.