They were disdainful of the media then, they are disdainful of the media now.
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Out of touch with — and disdainful of — ordinary Americans.
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"I remember being a bit disdainful of chillax," she says.
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But their engagement with politics ranges from naive to disdainful.
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Yet, this president is still disdainful of all of them.
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Clinton was disdainful of his white, economically hard-hit supporters. Mrs.
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At times, he has appeared openly disdainful or condescending toward them.
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It was surprisingly edgy, surprisingly highbrow, and unsurprisingly disdainful of the middlebrow.
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Some of Trump's other Cabinet picks were openly disdainful of their agencies.
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This man, who is so disdainful of the ethos and spirit of
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In the 1990s, Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi kept a disdainful distance.
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He's disdainful even to supposed friends when they don't meet his standards.
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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump was openly disdainful of the military brass.
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Viewed from this perspective, the budget deserves mixed reviews, but not disdainful dismissal.
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Despite his acclaim, Mr. Vaughn could be a little disdainful about his vocation.
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The Trump administration, disdainful of climate change and Obama-era environmental initiatives, listened.
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The judges are often disdainful, and critics say they are far from impartial.
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The Germans were pragmatic, and the British were measured, and the French were disdainful.
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Close allies of the five permanent members, including NATO members, have been similarly disdainful.
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With him is Reid, violent, unpredictable and disdainful of Jack's soft spot for Alicia.
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She did not show up to accept either and remains disdainful of all prizes.
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In regards to the iPhone, stars were at best ambivalent and at worst disdainful.
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Niemeyer was disdainful of money, even if he worked with those who had it.
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I found academic feminists disdainful of those who were not part of their world.
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He stayed careful to avoid saying anything that might seem disdainful of Mr Trump's supporters.
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Turning to Mrs Clinton, his one-time wedding guest, the presumptive Republican nominee is disdainful.
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His disdainful, non-commital jab, thrown as if his fist had stepped in something nasty.
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Alberto Toron, Bendine's lawyer, denied that his client was disdainful of the Petrobras compliance committee.
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Trump, like Orbán, is personally disdainful of constraints on his power and the free press.
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If I have to step past them, I will hear the familiar, belabored, disdainful sigh.
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"They thought it was a publicity stunt," Ms. Trump said of a disdainful news media.
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Gentrifiers on television are typically portrayed as one disdainful type: the clueless young white man.
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Octopuses become fond of certain people, yet at others they squirt disdainful jets of water.
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Neuer kept on playing disdainful passes on the edge of his box, unruffled by risk.
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This abstract and panoramic view of the city is the disdainful, disembodied, super-tall aesthetic.
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Armed forces chief General Eduardo Ano described the NPA's conduct since Tuesday as "disdainful and disturbing".
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"It's cultural: everything [that's important] to the worldview of college graduates, he's disdainful of, " Greenberg says.
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But it's not just the opinionated and ever-disdainful internet that has doubts about the couple.
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Mr. Parr says it refreshes the palate without accentuating the flavors, while Mr. Dolinski is disdainful.
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Most of the correction officers I encountered seemed to be openly disdainful toward people of color.
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And, the people around him, again according to Wolff, are deeply disdainful and dismissive of Trump.
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Nor did these constitutional principles stop Rubio from being disdainful about the Senate in the past.
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The judges are often disdainful, addressing defendants in the familiar form of address, against court tradition.
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This is a more partisan sphere and it almost uniformly disdainful of Clinton and her centrist allies.
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I love her disdainful facial expressions with every attempt he makes to sidestep her or be clever.
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It is a slyly political film that it is intensely disdainful of the very idea of politics.
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As a candidate, Trump was disdainful of the climate change issue, promising a renaissance of American coal.
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But in the office the following week, he berated Ms. Marquez, calling her message rude and disdainful.
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I certainly didn't mean to offend anyone or cause any distress, or be disdainful in any way.
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As a filmmaker, Oliver Stone is drawn to a familiar protagonist: cocksure, naïve, principled, disdainful of authority.
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"Nancy was disdainful of Barbara for her sturdy figure, her matronly clothes, and her blunt manner," Page wrote.
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The resulting mind-set, disdainful of idealism and suspicious of ego, is one we are now, evidently, exporting.
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"Nancy was disdainful of Barbara for her sturdy figure, her matronly clothes, and her blunt manner," Page writes.
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Rajoy, 61, governed with an absolute majority in his first term and was often disdainful of the opposition.
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His team is as disdainful of history as it is of time-honored traditions about press-government relations.
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She's proudly clueless about the internet, and disdainful of newer forms of entertainment, especially those embraced by women.
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He was hostile to culture and disdainful of individual creativity, insisting on an immediate realization of the absolute.
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And not every older worker feels marginalized or unappreciated, nor does every younger boss feel disdainful and misunderstood.
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But since its inception during the Nixon administration, EPA has been a mess – corrupt, incompetent and disdainful of science.
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He lashed out at Putin and Assad for "savage" assaults on Aleppo and was particularly disdainful of Russia itself.
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Likewise, the president's disdainful, crass treatment of foreign leaders — including our staunchest allies — offends the sensibilities of most Americans.
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She was dry and disdainful and wickedly funny; she wrote poetry and was pursuing a degree in library science.
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But Mr. Obama and his closest aides have become increasingly disdainful of what they view as Washington's conventional wisdom.
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Javaunie Francis, a black punter at the H.B.C.U. Bethune-Cookman, posited that black athletes are disdainful of those positions.
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He was disdainful of civilian life, sneering at classmates who wore their shirts untucked or arrived late to class.
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A serious, sharp-tempered widow of twenty-nine, Lib is disdainful of most things where the Irish are concerned.
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But when she left the court with 203 seconds remaining after fouling out, Auriemma gave her a disdainful look.
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Trump would satisfy his own craving for action and his self-image as a strongman disdainful of the establishment.
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Democrats began the year aggrieved over the treatment of both President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and disdainful of Trump.
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Nugent's thumb gesture indicated "outta here," Kid Rock's crossed his arms, and Palin made the most disdainful facial expression possible.
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Disdain for Republican leaders Another similarity between Blankenship and the President is his disdainful rhetoric about GOP leaders in Washington.
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On top of these polling realities, Americans remain lukewarm, if not slightly disdainful, toward the banking sector after the recession.
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Cassie has to both escape his clutches and protect her disdainful teenage daughter once Sonny gets wind of her existence.
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As dedicated as he was to form and structure, he was also a sharp social commentator, disdainful of the artificial.
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Mr. Obama and his aides thought Mr. McConnell was disdainful and taciturn, according to former members of Mr. Obama's staff.
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No major presidential candidate has ever been quite as disdainful of knowledge, as indifferent to facts, as untroubled by his benightedness.
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And the Trump White House, disdainful and antagonizing of federal bureaucracies, is unlikely to find many allies to grease their operation.
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"Macron has a rapport with the people that is contemptuous and disdainful," said one gilet jaune, stationed on a rural roundabout.
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The second main difficulty is that many ordinary Chinese are disdainful of primary-care facilities, even those with fully qualified GPs.
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Embarrassed by Rio's poverty and disdainful of Rio's poor, they've tried, over and over, to cleanse the city of its undesirables.
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But racial solidarity today can be a tricky thing, valuable to some and a disdainful reminder of the past to others.
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But nonetheless, I felt humiliated, disdainful of that girl who had been willing to do such undignified things for a doubloon.
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At the call center, Convergys, Guendelsberger learns she is the human shield between the frustrated customer and the disdainful, predatory company.
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This is what sets The End of Eddy apart; the novel's tone is both intimate and removed, even disdainful, toward its subjects.
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He is mostly disdainful of reporters who lust after "espionage porn" — exposing C.I.A. spying foibles, no matter the risk to national security.
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I heard these US government guys calling it "Merci Congo," which is totally disdainful and cruel—no Rwandan would ever say that.
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But he has always been disdainful of the art of politics and had to be nudged into wooing even friendly Democratic leaders.
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We have a President uninterested in global health concerns, broadly disdainful of experts and recently obsessed with and distracted by his impeachment.
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Laila is disdainful of her brother's map-reading abilities, while the pal is frustrated that he can't access GPS from his phone.
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It has long been disdainful of Congress, but now, under the Trump administration, it is reaching a peak of contempt for it.
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"The majority saw the president's declaration as disdainful to the seriousness of the situation," The Sensationalist, a widely read satirical website, said.
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Now, with President Trump openly disdainful of international agreements, the likelihood of Washington's signing the treaty would seem to be about zero.
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Even before Indiana Republicans were able to register their lukewarm, bordering on disdainful, reaction, the Cruz-Kasich deal seemed to be doomed.
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Finding comfort in the notion that their former allies were disdainful, hapless rubes, smug liberals created a culture animated by that contempt.
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The president is openly disdainful of the rule of law and is now undermining Congress's ability to exercise its lawful powers of oversight.
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They were literally from the wrong side of the tracks, and the people in power in this town were openly disdainful of them.
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It is the violent, repressive left, explicitly disdainful of liberalism and its counterrevolutionary sanction of free inquiry and expression, its untethered, bourgeois individualism.
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Overall, however, there is a sense that Malkmus has mellowed with age, that he's less aloof, less disdainful—in a word, less cool.
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Trump's intervention 18 years later is one reason why his critics fear he is oblivious or disdainful of traditional norms governing presidential behavior.
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Amash's admonishments of Trump on Twitter predictably draw tut-tutting or disdainful silence from the right, while also endearing himself to the left.
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Amazon, in particular, often appears almost disdainful of profits; last year, it earned just $3 billion on its vast $178 billion of revenues.
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Bendine was disdainful of the compliance committee and never attended one of its meetings, one person with direct knowledge of the situation said.
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If you're disdainful or apathetic about every aspect of your organization, you should probably move to somewhere that'll provide a better fit. 13.
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Egyptian security forces, largely ignorant of the terrain and disdainful of the local tribes, treat the residents of Sinai with suspicion and hostility.
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For a man who would be disdainful of constitutional limit, ignoring or defeating the other branches of government and their co-equal powers.
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I've always admired his attitude compared to the other legacy-media moguls who were openly disdainful of the internet for far too long.
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Douglas plays Sandy Kominsky, a onetime Tony Award-winning stage actor whose Hollywood career never took off, possibly because he's a disdainful creep.
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The Reagan camp was disdainful that Bush held on so long in the primary, after it was clear that voters had not chosen him.
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The System was meant to prevent users from making the wrong choices, from being resigned to a lifetime of disdainful sex or silent sulking.
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But the message House Republicans are sending is clear: Donald Trump's Washington will be as disdainful of ethical governance as the president-elect himself.
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The hardline, sometimes disdainful, approach of the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia toward Justice Sandra Day O'Connor plainly turned off his fellow Republican appointee.
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" Most of them did, even though, as Waxman put it, "Some of them just looked very disdainful of meeting with a bunch of kids.
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Whenever she is asked questions that touch on possible sexism and double standards, Clinton tends to assume a slow, sarcastic and vaguely disdainful voice.
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And they were signs of a President who is often hazy on the details of complex situations and disdainful of the expertise of others.
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Right-wing intensity is taken for granted; left-wing intensity faces furious opposition from the other party and disdainful scolding from half its own.
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But then again, no candidate is so visibly disdainful of the need for candidates to kiss babies and pose in selfies than Bernie Sanders.
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" Ms. Ceballos recently recalled Ms. Greer, who declined an interview request, as "her usual bored, superior, disdainful self," and added, "But she was glamorous!
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And he sees it as an act of disdainful noblesse oblige to change their "bum lives" for the better by embarrassing them in the cage.
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His richly-layered robes and coral beads contrast with the stiff white uniforms of the British, his perturbed but determined stare with their disdainful gazes.
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Rubbishing the government's dealmaking record (which he, disdainful of geopolitics, reduces to the zero-sum terms of a property transaction) is part of that shtick.
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In any case, the South Carolina Republican made clear that he is disdainful of the Democrats' behavior on the committee over the last two years.
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The Trump ascendancy has made far too many Republicans increasingly contemptuous of serious intellectual and policy argument, indifferent to empirical truth and disdainful of governing.
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More recently, President Barack Obama was openly disdainful of Mr. Sisi's harsh tactics yet left untouched America's $1.3 billion in annual military aid to Egypt.
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" The tailor answers, "But, my dear sir, my dear sir, look" — with a disdainful gesture — "at the world, and look" — lovingly, proudly — "at my trousers!
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A flock of disdainful ducks seem destined to win, but Marge and Lola have a few ideas up their sleeves — or rather under their wings.
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Others, including loyalists in Donald Trump's entourage, may launch a barrage of disdainful tweets and emails in an attempt to cast doubt on its revelations.
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Disdainful of experts who could have advised them on tropical agriculture, Ford's men planted seeds of questionable value and let leaf blight ravage the plantation.
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Another is that, in his quest to govern from on high, Mr Macron tends to come across as disdainful, and out of touch with ordinary folk.
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Ms. Pelosi called the Republican position on the court opening "so disdainful and so contemptible" and said that Mr. Reid was the person to fight it.
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" Christie Todd Whitman, former EPA administrator under George W. Bush, warned that Pruitt is "disdainful of the agency and the science behind what the agency does.
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We also tend to be a little disdainful of other parts of America with their pet regional concerns that didn't and don't translate perfectly for us.
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He used his first minute to speak in Spanish, at surprising and showy length: Warren and Cory Booker looked visibly stunned and even a little disdainful.
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But Mr. Freeman's approach has drawn fans, particularly among customers who are either unfamiliar with, or disdainful of, the sanctimony of other high-end coffee purveyors.
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Throughout, the plan reflects Mr. Trump's embrace of the wishes of Israeli nationalists and his Jewish and evangelical donors, and a disdainful attitude toward the Palestinians.
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From an evidentiary standpoint, Mr. Bolsonaro is an attractive potential defendant because he has been so starkly disdainful of his own country's environmental laws and regulations.
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But the timing — on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination — rankled some Dems, especially those who remain skeptical/disdainful of his rise.
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I didn't have a date; at 17, I was outwardly disdainful of things like boys and makeup, while still keenly aware of my unfamiliarity with both.
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This past week, state assembly members have penned disdainful op-eds, and once it was officially announced, many local politicians put out statements condemning the dealmaking process.
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A warmonger and bully, the national security adviser is disdainful of the bipartisan foreign-policy world and the governing institutions its members cycle in and out of.
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Conceptually I hate proposal videos; they feel emotionally cheap, but moreover, I'm one of those heartless single people who is neither endeared nor disdainful of happy couples.
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Whitman accuses Attorney General Pruitt of being "disdainful of the agency," she's ignoring the fact that he has unequivocally asserted its necessity to protecting clean air and water.
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As his memoir details, he was proud and disdainful to editors and had his "paranoia" continually vindicated in a way that actually improved the government's conduct, if marginally.
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But most recently, the Tesla CEO reportedly made disdainful comments on the subject at a company event during the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Long Beach, Calif.
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A lover of a local racist right-wing newspaper and disdainful of sex and "welfare queens" alike, he exacts his brand of justice with cold, sometimes murderous brutality.
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Much of the European commentariat has reacted with a disdainful shrug to Mr. Trump's ambiguous response to the violence that erupted over plans to remove one such statue.
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My own attempt to wear a radical mix of plaids during the grunge moment resulted in a disdainful once-over from the editor-in-chief of a magazine.
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The co-founder of ONE Championship—an MMA league stealing a march in Asia on Mr McGregor's American-based league, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)—is disdainful of such behaviour.
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Given his past and his clearly disdainful feeling for LGBTQ people, it's obvious that we should be taking his denial of the torture with a huge grain of salt.
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Louis-Dreyfus's first lines of the season are said directly to camera, as she delivers a televised address that's disdainful of both the political system and the American public.
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Her accent seems overstudied; it's a confluence of Midwestern and Boston, while Chubbuck sounded like Susan Sontag playing a local news anchor, a strange mixture of disdainful and flat.
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As he describes in a recent interview with Science magazine, he is doing his best to push medical expertise in an administration that is often disdainful of expert advice.
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She proceeded to outthink and outmaneuver her elders on a regular basis with her versatility and cryptic grin: one that could express delight or disdain (and sometimes disdainful delight).
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No recent president has been so disdainful of these rights or embraced so lovingly authoritarians who abuse their people, like Vladimir Putin of Russia and the Saudi royal family.
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Mr. Bolsonaro, who has long argued that conservation policies stymie economic development, has been disdainful of the environmental measures that reduced the Amazon deforestation rate between 2004 and 2012.
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The establishment, in turn, is seen to be an elite, a "political class," alienated from a critical mass of the people, unresponsive to them because it's disdainful of them.
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Varble self-coined these performances as "Gutter Art," that which asks why we view both the people at the lower-rung of society and the streets with disdainful superiority.
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After studying with and working for Paul Wolff, a pioneer of Leica photography, she started a studio of her own — much to Wolff's annoyance, which he articulated in disdainful letters.
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His first press conference at Manchester United was understated, almost sullen at times, and came along with all the disdainful jibes we've come to expect from him at this point.
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He and his closest advisers are often disdainful of what they see as the think-tank consensus in Washington about how the United States should behave on the world stage.
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It is a genuinely disdainful charge that has far less to do with public discourse and far more to do with disparaging an entire group of Americans for political gain.
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The series stands apart because the extreme budgets involved allowed the street running through the Ponte Vecchio to burst alive with hawkers' shouts and Savonarolan sermons belted from disdainful doomsayers.
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" Former Obama White House staffer and evangelical Christian Michael Wear went further, arguing that liberals are "disdainful" of religion and that there's a "religious illiteracy problem in the Democratic Party.
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On the way, there is a trip to a concert with an uptight aunt who is disgusted by the spectacle of a woman singing and disdainful of music in general.
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"I don't recall ever having seen an appointment of someone who is so disdainful of the agency and the science behind what the agency does," Whitman said at the time.
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But when the government consists of authoritarian populists who are disdainful of traditional constraints on their power and desperate to bend the system to their will, resistance is that much harder.
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"DNO ASA withdraws the request ... and notes with deep disappointment Faroe Petroleum's repeated peremptory and disdainful attitude to such representation for, and therefore greater engagement with, its largest shareholder," it said.
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The first two are LaManna and her husband and Blake Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds (who looks to be mentally reciting a disdainful Deadpool monologue just to get through this).
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Obama, who took as much pride in telling people he hadn't read their books as Holbrooke did saying that he had, was disdainful of Holbrooke's compulsion to flatter and be flattered.
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Kaepernick's public persona shifted, whether because of his distrust in the media or because he was following the lead of Harbaugh, often disdainful of reporters, seeing little value in sharing information.
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The authors of the bipartisan plan said Wednesday they'll push the proposal forward, even as President Donald Trump's stance ricocheted from supportive to disdainful to arm's-length and the plan's fate teetered.
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Bernie Sanders campaign in Iowa (and later, as deputy national field director, helped author its most famous win, in Michigan), was openly disdainful of what he suggested had been wasteful party management.
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Rather, his bent is to angrily portray his coalition as under siege by forces -- ranging from immigrants and minorities to disdainful coastal and media elites -- that only he can protect them from.
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" Trump chastised a "permanent political class" that is "overly disdainful," claiming they -- along with the media, economic institutions and technology companies -- were pushing "flat-out assaults on our histories, traditions and values.
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Mr. Spacey's eyes lit up when one student gave her rendition of a renowned speech from Shakespeare's "Henry V," after the title character is presented with a disdainful gift of tennis balls.
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Now that he's taken her place, he's disdainful of such behavior, and there were tense exchanges on US policy in the Middle East and Trump's scything of the diplomatic budget, which Sen.
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Disdainful of the market, convention, and boundaries, the only goal that really mattered to these insurgent, untamable, experiential artists was to be able to see without filters; everything else followed from there. WOMAN.
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Though it was ultimately a matter of a lack of transparency, it made Apple look disdainful of its customers and willing to obscure critical information from them about how its products actually function.
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ZAGREB (Reuters) - The Israel-based Simon Wiesenthal Center urged Croatia's government on Friday to dismiss its culture minister, saying he took a disdainful attitude toward Croatian resistance to fascism during World War Two.
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Disdainful of conventional democracy, its leaders believe the internet offers a chance to return to an Athenian-style, direct democracy in which every major political issue would be submitted to an online referendum.
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And he's both super disdainful of the lawyers who are deposing him, he's incredibly angry that he has to be sat down in this room and answer questions, and he's also self-pitying.
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The technique is only effective when the content of the subject's words are very clearly ludicrous for the intended audience, as in the bond between the liberal Guardian readership and the disdainful Aitkenhead.
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The prospect of getting in on the ground floor of a Trump administration that is short on policy ideas and disdainful of old Washington hands amounts to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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Lockett made a basketball shot, then emphatically stepped over the prone body of David Moore, an allusion to a disdainful move pulled by Allen Iverson over Tyronn Lue in the 2001 N.B.A. Finals.
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It is the steadying, practical role that Republicans had hoped Mr. Pence would play for a president who has no political or legislative experience and is openly disdainful of the details of policy.
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" He has established an intimate familiarity with luxury brands, the names of which roll off his tongue with an attitude of disdainful boredom: "Comme des Garçons, Comme des Garçons," he chants on "Endless.
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According to Unicode partner EmojiXpress, the disdainful emoji won handily, showing up in 14 percent of texts containing the iOS 9.1 emoji sent from EmojiXpress' keyboard app during the last two weeks of January.
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Its "law and order" message appealed to blue-collar whites who felt menaced on all sides — by civil-rights demonstrators, anti-Vietnam War protesters and liberal intellectuals who seemed disdainful of traditional American values.
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For now, the campaigns are trying to gain legitimacy by bringing on serious names in Republican politics, even if they cannot get any real endorsements from lawmakers who are privately disdainful of Mr. Trump.
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Echoing Mr. Salvini's remarks a day earlier, Mr. Di Maio also took a disdainful tone toward the foreign news media (The Financial Times this week compared the new alliance to "barbarians" inside Rome's gates).
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In it, federal Judge T.S. Ellis was at times so disdainful toward the prosecutors in front of the jury that they asked several times to make sure that the jurors would ignore his opinions.
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Yet a Prabowo victory could carry more dangers: As a lieutenant general in the repressive Suharto era, he was allegedly linked to abuses and has in the past seemed disdainful of democratic institutions and norms.
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" Line by line, the document tore Ackman open, depicting a merciless megalomaniac who "uses philanthropy to deflect critics" and is "inclined to arrogant, haughty, disdainful, condescending, patronizing behavior and attitudes that he seeks to mask.
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Yet he indefatigably struts his narcissism, governs by tweet and thrives on turmoil, disdainful of claims that he is stunningly unfit to lead the nation — a charge that stirs mostly perverse delight among his partisans.
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Disdainful of diplomacy and reportedly both clever and relentless by nature, Bolton advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq—the very conflict that gave Iran the leverage it had during recent negotiations with world powers.
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Sibylla has fixed and disdainful ideas about modern schooling, and decides to bring up her genius son as John Stuart Mill was brought up by his father: learning Greek, starting at the age of three.
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Rick and Morty, Cartoon Network's bizarro animated series about a brilliant madman traveling through infinite dimensions at a burp's notice, is both disdainful of TV convention and committed to exploiting it for its own ends.
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President Trump, disdainful of any success of his predecessor, has long been determined to destroy this agreement, even though it has served American interests and won the grudging support of many of its original critics.
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But the ultimate point is the same: this steady assault on the rule of law threatens to radically increase the power wielded by politicians like President Trump -- politicians dismissive of limits and disdainful of norms.
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Anyone tired of the disdainful clichés lobbed at classical institutions might initially look askance at LoftOpera, one of a number of small-scale New York companies that advertise themselves as alternatives to a decrepit establishment.
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He is furiously disdainful of most of the people he meets, but also has a habit of sidling up to them and initiating awkward conversations with a smile halfway between a snarl and a leer.
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That is not to say Puerto Ricans necessarily disagree with Mr. Trump's criticism of the commonwealth's leaders, even if many locals dislike the president himself, or the disdainful way he sometimes refers to the island.
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Clinton delivered a disdainful review Sunday of Trump's performance in Scotland during her first public comments on Britain's vote to withdraw from the European Union, lumping him in with U.S. foe and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Imagine how long United and American would last in their current, disdainful guise if Emirates, Singapore Airlines or even Ryanair were allowed to compete against them for a share of the world's biggest domestic aviation market.
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He's an outcast who must grapple with the world's prejudice like any X-Men character, but as a near-immortal tough guy, he's disdainful of the more philosophical conflict between faction leaders Professor X and Magneto.
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Gompertz and some of the artists lobbied hard for Josh to make Quiet permanent, turn it into a real-world TV environment, but Josh had had enough, seemed distressed, angry, disdainful of his subjects' continuing need.
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After the show's cancellation, anti-censorship demonstrators gathered outside the Corcoran and projected his images on its facade, including another self-portrait, this one of a leather-clad punk with a pompadour and a disdainful snarl.
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"I believe that as long as people are incredulous or disdainful or scared of this market ... then there's trillions of dollars of tinder on the sidelines that can come in and take stocks higher," Cramer concluded.
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A protest by Spanish players at the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada brought public shame over the disdainful treatment of the team by its longtime coach, who scorned the players as "chavalitas," or immature girls.
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During the Republican primary season, when Mr. Trump was one of many candidates to be the party's presidential nominee, it took an amused, sometimes disdainful attitude toward him, which did not go unnoticed by its target.
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In retrospect, entombed beneath Madison Square Garden and a commercial building too mediocre to rise even to the level of good or bad, the new Penn Station represented a city disdainful of its gloried architectural past.
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" She was particularly disdainful of Merkin, who "actually had the nerve, in once piece, to repeat the words of women she knew who were thinking to themselves, 'Oh, for God's sake, grow up, this is the world.
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And it's also possible, if his luck holds, that the President may become more trusting of his decisions, more disdainful of the advice of allies and establishment advisers and more tempted to give his instincts full rein.
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Since Mr. Kim took power after his father's death more than six years ago, Chinese officials and experts have become increasingly disdainful of him for ignoring Beijing's entreaties to halt his nuclear weapons and ballistic missile tests.
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He lost that fight but emerged from it a respected national figure, a voice for moderate, middle-class Americans, notably businessmen, who felt that the federal government had grown too big, powerful and disdainful of private enterprise.
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It's a popular theme for birthday parties, but Charley (Aaron Banes), who has divorced parents, a disdainful teenage sister and no friends except his dog and three imaginary monsters, isn't sure he wants a celebration at all.
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Both women have difficulty with the physical act of speaking in the years after the murder; both live in neglected houses infested with flies; both have been abandoned by their mother and have a disdainful older brother.
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"CT's disdainful, dismissive, elitist posture toward their fellow Christians may well do far more long-term damage to American Christianity and its witness than any current prudential support for President Trump will ever cause," the editorial concluded.
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It maintained that the memorial "sent a message that the government cares only about the death of Christian soldiers and was disdainful of the sacrifices made by non-Christian and nonreligious soldiers," it said in a statement.
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"Paintings are made for dentists," Francis Picabia declared in "Jésus-Christ Rastaquouère," a manifesto (one among many he wrote) that offers ample evidence of this avant-garde artist and poet's subversive, disdainful sensibility toward art and art making.
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Instead, some disdainful viewers are outraged that showrunner Damon Lindelof's Watchmen is too "political," too entrenched in "identity politics" — too "SJW" ("social justice warrior") — in ways that they think writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons's original comic wasn't.
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Donald J. Trump on Tuesday assailed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court for speaking out on the presidential race, calling her disdainful remarks about his candidacy "highly inappropriate" and suggesting that she owed other justices an apology.
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But he seems surprisingly blind to how he fuels such fatalism by playing to the worst stereotype of the enlightened cosmopolitan: disdainful and condescending — sympathetic to humanity in the abstract but impervious to the suffering of actual human beings.
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Perhaps the most dismaying failure of liberal Democrats is their consistent inability to hammer home the extent that would-be rugged individualists (most of them white and disdainful of "welfare") are in fact dependent on the kindness of strangers.
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Edelman, who co-signed one of the anti-Trump letters, say some younger Republicans who were quietly disdainful of Trump during the campaign are now asking him to help put them in touch with people on the new president's transition team.
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I'm sure Judge Neil Gorsuch of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will face angry questions from Senate Democrats about President Trump's disdainful assessment of the federal judiciary, but I doubt we will learn anything substantive about Gorsuch's judicial priorities.
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Gannett initially bid $12.25 a share in April, raising a furious and disdainful reaction from Michael W. Ferro Jr., Tronc's chairman and largest shareholder, who paid $44 million, or $1433 a share, for his initial 17 percent stake in February.
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It's also disdainful of singledom in a way that's jarringly out of sync with the show's otherwise sunny demeanor: The pursuit of a long-term monogamous and almost always heterosexual romantic relationship is the be-all end-all for every character.
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Gouzer is disdainful of the novice client who shows no interest in an artist's catalogue raisonné, and who wants to know only if the piece he is buying is considered to be in the top ten of the artist's works.
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Among the executives hairshirting it to Washington, DC were representatives from American Airlines, Delta, Southwest and Alaska Airlines, as well as Oscar Munoz (pictured), the boss of United, which has become the emblem of just how disdainful carriers have become towards their customers.
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Though hostile to Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, who wants Britain to stay in the EU, and disdainful of Brussels, many were hesitant about voting to leave the 583-nation bloc for fear that it could lead to factory closures and job losses.
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Vincent D'Onofrio luxuriates in a Portuguese accent as the coach of the national team, who is initially disdainful of what he calls the "primitive" ginga style but then exhorts Pelé (now played by Kevin de Paula Rosa) and his teammates to be themselves.
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With Mr. Macron's popularity plunging even below the levels experienced by his predecessor, François Hollande, in polls late in the summer — a succession of ill-judged, apparently disdainful comments to citizens had not helped — Mr. Collomb was not shy about offering a diagnosis.
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He doesn't appeal to his working-class followers despite being a plutocrat; he appeals to them because he's a plutocrat — a baronial figure who tells them that they're sharing a foxhole, beleaguered by the same disdainful elites, at war with the same villains.
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It's by diving into that very human in spite of that Herzog reminds me why his disdainful bon mots are more hopeful and more generous than he's often given credit for, and where the film offers some of its more compelling observations.
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Their grizzled masters hope that this simian-themed year will encourage new respect and audiences for their centuries-old tradition, which has been hounded to the margins of society by the police, city inspectors and disdainful urbanites who prefer smart telephones to clever monkeys.
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"What is a family anyway?" snarls Louise's husband, Stanley (Jason Merrells), a gruff furniture manufacturer who is struggling with the carnal hothouse unfolding around him, as well as with a disdainful wife who scorns his unpolished mien but is happy to spend his money.
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Even if there was no proof the attackers were recent arrivals, the newspaper said that what happened seemed to confirm the fears of some Germans that young men were coming into the country who were violent, disdainful of women and prepared to ignore German laws.
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But many longtime Berliners are disdainful of the project for another reason: The Forum occupies the former site of the Palast der Republik, a hulking building that once housed the East German Parliament and that was demolished to make way for the new museum.
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Jobs let that word hang in the air and even raised a disdainful eyebrow when I asked what he meant, including whether Ping would incorporate connecting with Facebook or even using Facebook Connect, which would make it much easier to find friends to share music with.
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Other conservative figures, including the columnists George F. Will, Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Kathleen Parker, and Michael Gerson, have been deeply and eloquently disdainful, but many of these same people had missed repeated opportunities over the years to identify and condemn the party's drift to radicalism.
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It just means you have to not be so in love with how pro-choice you are, and so opposed to how pro-life we are," said Wear, later adding, "It doesn't help you win elections if you're openly disdainful toward the driving force in many Americans' lives.
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There is plenty of historical evidence that public schools did not offer the best education: Their commitment to the classics and deliberate, disdainful neglect of the sciences during the nineteenth century meant that most of the figures whose innovations drove the Industrial Revolution were educated outside the system.
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In general, for the first six months, Trump's wild ride —rhetorical wars against the deep state, the media, the Democratic-Progressive party, the Republican establishment — has, despite the disdainful assessment of coastal establishmentarians, in truth gained himself some impressive results and, abroad, also put our adversaries sometimes off balance.
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Western viewers will detect resonances of "Stage Door" and "The Way We Were" in the story, which largely focuses on the disdainful treatment received by the newcomer He Xiaoping (Miao Miao), a girl from a poor background who's been recruited by the heroic, idealistic Liu Feng (Huang Xuan).
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A day after he set the tone for his term by delivering a searing inaugural address laced with the populist themes that helped him win the election, Trump offered new evidence that he will be as disdainful of convention and protocol as President as he was in the campaign trail.
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We have a president who lies constantly, who disregards the norms of American government, who's openly disdainful of the social function of a free press, and who's set up his administration in a way that seems to generally sideline expertise while opening the door to massive financial conflicts of interest.
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" The speech was peppered with quotes, from the mother of someone killed in Benghazi, the mother of a police officer shot by an undocumented immigrant, the author of an anti-Clinton biography, a Secret Service agent describing the former First Lady as "volcanic, impulsive, [and] disdainful of the rules set for everyone else.
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His trade views are disdainful of freedom and informed by economic fallacies, yet Republican leaders have watched quietly from the sidelines as Mr. Trump misappropriates his authorities to disrupt global supply chains, inflict pain on American trade partners, generate enormous amounts of domestic collateral damage and make the United States an international scofflaw.
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The idea of abolishing or reducing the power of the EPA isn't entirely new to Republican Party politics — even though it would have been unimaginable under Republican presidents from Richard Nixon, who oversaw the agency's founding, to George W. Bush, whose EPA head has opposed Trump's EPA administrator pick as " disdainful" of the agency's mission.
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Early examples include his dismissive treatment, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, of Anita Hill, a black woman who accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing; Mr Biden's disdainful attitude towards busing as a means to racially integrate schools; and his support for Bill Clinton's draconian criminal-justice reforms.
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The other day, as I was looking for GIF-worthy material, I came across this video of a very funny '50s burlesque dancer and some strip club owner commented on it, being rather disdainful, saying how far they've come in the industry, because it used to be just a few wiggles and now they're more like athletes.
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The book is a Chicago coming-of-age story; a love story of a pair of opposites; and a political saga by a woman who was skeptical, if not outright disdainful, of politics, who tried to apply the brakes where she could, and who ultimately transcended her worries to become one of the most popular first ladies in history.
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As Warren marched in the South Boston Saint Patrick Day parade thar year, one man on the curb mimicked her often repeated refrain about the "hammered" state of the middle class with a disdainful twist as only a Bostonian could and said, "Hey Warren, this is the middle class getting hammered," as he downed the final swig of his Bud Light.
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Jaclyn Piscitelli, who worked at USJ from 2011 to 2019, claims that when the all-women's school became fully coed in 2018, the work environment in the athletic department became "openly hostile and disdainful toward women," male sports were given more resources than women's sports and Piscitelli was expected to do more work without assistance, according to her complaint, filed in US District Court.
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Many of her worst qualities are mitigated: her snobbery and cruelty towards the working class is reduced to a brief argument about the 1832 Reform Act that expanded male suffrage; her disdainful manipulation of Walker for financial gain is sanitised with romantic feelings it is unclear the real Lister ever felt; her selfishness is portrayed as an admirable attempt to live entirely on her own terms.
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But as my colleague Matthew Yglesias wrote on Wednesday, it's hard to know with Trump: We have a president who lies constantly, who disregards the norms of American government, who's openly disdainful of the social function of a free press, and who's set up his administration in a way that seems to generally sideline expertise while opening the door to massive financial conflicts of interest.
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Some who expressed mixed feelings about the throwback shirt included hard-core traditionalists: men who embrace sack suits and rep ties as a shelter from the shifting winds of fashion, people harboring informed opinions about the collar rolls worn by William F. Buckley on "Firing Line" and Miles Davis on the cover of "Milestones," holdouts disdainful of Uniqlo's of-the-moment oxford, with its paltry button-down collar.
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If you can imagine reading the 10 Rules for Writing List for several hundred pages, and coming across roughly 238 percent more descriptions of birds, you will have a good sense of what reading The End of the End of the Earth is like: It is like being scolded, repeatedly, by someone who is clearly very smart and successful but who is so disdainful that you can't do anything but reject everything he tells you.
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By the time Arpaio was convicted in August 2017, however, there was a new sheriff in town — both in Maricopa County, where he'd been booted from office in 2016 (thanks in part to the county's growing Latino electorate and in part to fatigue with Arpaio's legal troubles) and in the United States, where Trump had been installed to take the same sort of tough-talking, disdainful-of-niceties, law-and-order approach to immigration around the country that Arpaio had taken in Maricopa County for all those years.
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