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Pelosi disdained George W. Bush for much of his presidency.
Gloves, once disdained by serious cooks, are suddenly a necessity.
Gloves, once disdained by serious cooks, are suddenly a necessity.
Rural France feels "abandoned" and "disdained" by Paris, Mr. Juppé said.
" Unlike any of those women, however, Acker disdained "naturalistically-described situations.
In concert, he disdained looking back or playing longtime fan favorites.
Many have felt ignored or disdained for their most deeply held beliefs.
Schemes were hatched in the repulsive latrines, where guards disdained to enter.
Schemes were hatched in the repulsive latrines, where guards disdained to enter.
The color brown, so long disdained in floral designs, is now ascendant.
Many Northern liberals shared the President's GOP affiliation but disdained his politics.
And of course, there were those who disdained the practice as a whole.
He disliked the taste of liquor and disdained its effect on the brain.
The heartfelt feelings of ordinary people about Big Ben should equally not be disdained.
Bella had always disdained Peipei a little, as she knew others might disdain her.
Alas, my body disdained my efforts and I finally had to take a statin.
Some have argued that direct election was doomed because the Philadelphia delegates disdained democracy.
As a teenager, he disdained the sloppy technique he watched in many contemporary Mexican movies.
What's more, the embryonic craft beer movement disdained cans for the metallic taste they imparted.
Critics initially disdained the genre as merely decorative, lacking the moral heft of narrative art.
Spotify's major competitor is Apple, whose co-founder Steve Jobs had long disdained music subscriptions.
Trump thrilled conservatives with his unembarrassed embrace of far-right figures disdained by mainstream Republicans.
Although Ms. Anspach often said that she disdained marriage, she did marry and divorce twice.
I disdained fans from other cities who rooted for two teams in the same sport.
Unlike the founders, who disdained political parties, Van Buren was a firm believer in them.
He disdained the American tendency to bombast and, as he saw it, the fetishization of childhood.
He disdained the Broadway musical "The King and I," with its roots in his grandfather's court.
She brought with her a handout prepared for Trump, who she knew disdained lengthy briefing papers.
For all its lushness, this part of Mexico has been largely ignored and its heritage disdained.
They are disdained by the middle class and kept on a tether by the party authorities.
Though Lenin publicly disdained Helphand, Fürstenberg was one of his closest contacts, his north European fixer.
He disdained commercial success and the straight world, and seems to have never had a job.
It's "the kind of topping serious chefs correctly disdained for decades as extravagant and trashy," Adler writes.
William Kristol: Isn't Trumpism a two-bit Caesarism of a kind that American conservatives have always disdained?
North Korea's founders originally disdained the story of Dangun as superstition incompatible with their ostensibly socialist ideology.
They disdained the participation and input of businesses, preferring to micromanage the employment scene from the Beltway.
As a sort of mandarin parallel to punk, the movement disdained the idealism of previous avant-gardes.
Mr. Ren was never a typical liberal; he disdained the protesters who occupied Tiananmen Square in 1989.
But you can now get away with dream-the-impossible-dream rhetoric, once disdained as American psychobabble.
Morisot disdained the female artists' groups of the time, who practiced a conservative, mythifying kind of painting.
Surrealists saw this kind of progress as drudgery; they disdained industrialization and, by extension, efficiency and functionality.
And even people who disdained prepared foods used the office microwave to reheat leftovers brought from home.
"This king was a prince who[m] all men / loved and of no man disdained," it reads.
Trump openly disdained traditional conservative elites — making a populist case that resonated with working-class white voters.
He is a florid middle finger to every one of the cultural elites his followers feel disdained by.
In Africa and Asia indigenous groups were often pushed into the forests or deserts and disdained by newcomers.
He seems hell-bent on ushering in an era where expertise is not just ignored, but actively disdained.
In that church, god was little more than a power-hungry scold who disdained anything fun and interesting.
Her real problem is not that women were passive, but that they were active in ways she disdained.
After winning in 2016, Trump disdained the conclusion of US intelligence agencies that Russia intervened on his behalf.
But he disdained Schopenhauer's emphasis on the practice of compassion, which also promises release from the grasping ego.
But seldom have critics so thoroughly disdained the events in Philadelphia as to call for a do-over.
Many liberals who disdained the Tea Party revolt like the progressive "resistance" movement, and for conservatives the inverse.
In the Romney video, voters who suspected that the powerful privately disdained them had rare and valuable evidence.
They feel disdained and overlooked and they will blow thick black smoke in your face until you pay attention.
In that May of 1989 the student-led protests were going strong, but his fire-breathing gang were disdained.
At Oxford, De Quincey disdained the final oral exams because they were not, as advertised, conducted in ancient Greek.
He believed in international engagement and funding U.S. foreign aid; he disdained congressmen who bragged about not having passports.
Ms. Yovanovitch was disdained by Mr. Trump's allies as an Obama-appointed stooge (Don Jr. called her a "joker").
" While public perception is typically an important part of being famous, the Grammy winner has always disdained "playing the game.
The clerics were disdained by the participation of Iran's Jewish minority, which included my grandfather, in the country's economic progress.
Her disinterest for politics is well known, a position disdained by pretty much anyone besides my cousins, who don't vote.
The holdouts have disdained discounted offers from Argentina in the past, and would presumably turn their noses up at 150%.
Can you venerate someone whose work you admire, but who actively held disdained towards a social group you belong to?
Gently, politely but insistently, they offered an establishment tutorial on statecraft for an administration that has disdained the very notion.
Throughout much of the period, Southern congressmen were the aggressors, and Northerners, who disdained violence, were considered timid or cowardly.
The political views of the Péladans were thoroughly reactionary; they disdained democracy and called for the restoration of the monarchy.
Ms. Le Pen, the leader of the National Front party, has long disdained the euro as a threat to prosperity.
Audiences evinced a particular distaste for any works featuring the German language, and disdained pieces by living or nationalistic Germans.
Stout says camera companies have underinvested in auto modes as they're usually disdained by pro photographers (for good reason, he notes).
The museum hails Nixon for rallying a "silent majority" of Americans who felt ignored and disdained by bossy, self-dealing elites.
He met the poor rice- and rubber-farmers whom the elites disdained, set up experimental paddy-fields and started co-operatives.
And where they threaten the principles of fairness and rule of law, the basis of America's strength, they must be disdained.
During the 1940s, Kendall was politically homeless: increasingly hostile to the left, but uncomfortable with traditional conservatives who disdained modern democracy.
Bush was also a precursor to Trump in the domestic sphere, framing himself as a proud anti-intellectual who disdained government.
It used to be the case that the respectable left disdained Corbyn for all the reasons cited above, and then some.
George Allen, the Redskins' coach of the 1970s, disdained young players and happily dealt away many of his picks for veterans.
Once disdained as a smelly food for poor people, they are now a coveted delicacy in fancy restaurants, like Appalachian truffles.
Since 2012, he has won one Premier League, two League Cups and the Europa League (a competition he had previously disdained).
Their father, in the newspaper interview, had disdained the idea of tourists trickling through the tired, old house, with its retro furniture.
But Leonardo was an intellectual, nearly 22004 years old, who openly disdained the process of sculpture — that sweaty blunt hacking at stone.
The strongest young artists of that time, drilled in critical theory and wielding newer mediums, disdained painting as weak-minded and archaic.
Though she disdained second-wave feminism, she was not an anti-feminist; there is no ignoring the confident ferocity of her mind.
Pat disdained Milton and Harvard, and seemed bewildered by the work culture of the training program, which was mainly for minority students.
Mr. Milken's early clients were corporate raiders who, like Mr. Trump, were disdained by establishment firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
He disdained partisan politics, which deeply divided the country in the shadow of the early Cold War and the rise of McCarthyism.
He was widely disdained by magazines like National Review and the Weekly Standard, and by conservative national security experts and many elected Republicans.
Marianne Williamson is not a serious candidate for the presidency: She's a self-help celebrity who openly disdained policy debate onstage Tuesday night.
Amid fears over rising crime, Clint Eastwood thrilled movie audiences as Dirty Harry, a tough-guy detective who disdained rules constraining police behavior.
"Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable" gives the prolific street photographer — a label he disdained but could never shake — the "American Masters" treatment.
Drozdiak finds in Germany a reluctant hegemon, unsure how to repair the postwar liberal international order now so disdained by the Trump administration.
He also saw the C.I.A., an organization he had long disdained, as overly political and too willing to advance the White House's agenda.
Barr was ultimately vindicated when Bill Clinton, a successor he disdained for what he called his defects of character, removed Sessions in 1993.
I felt like he wanted to dominate me but disdained me for allowing him to do so: Maybe because I enjoyed it too much?
They wanted him to know that they did not condone teen use, and that they disdained embattled vape giant JUUL Labs for its marketing.
They fretted over rising times and knelt, prayerlike, in front of their portable ovens, hoping to avoid the dreaded soggy bottoms the judges disdained.
Norman didn't care for the Jesus People (he disdained the movement's "commercial tinge"), although, in fairness, he didn't much care for people in general.
In the United States, college-educated urbanites making a comfortable living in the quintessential trades of globalization — finance, technology and media — disdained Mr. Trump.
The previous incumbent, Li Yuanchao, faded from view, clouded by corruption scandals involving former subordinates and a widespread impression that Mr. Xi disdained him.
He teases luxury out of the mundane, interpolating carnations as flagrant as a cheerleader's pompoms and puffs of baby's breath customarily disdained as filler.
She initially disdained polls and poll-driven political narratives—and then proceeded to gush over a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal national survey.
Nevertheless, Kidd writes, when evangelicals gained ascendancy, they sometimes pursued cultural and legal power that the purists of the founding generation would have disdained.
The governors of the colonies, the Declaration says, disdained the governed, riding over their values and interests and refusing to respond to their protests.
As a conservative activist, she staunchly opposed feminism and abortion, disdained multiculturalism and spoke out against LGBT rights -- netting her legions of supporters and detractors.
There's no indication that he, disdained by many of the more moderate and pragmatic members of the GOP conference, could achieve anything like a majority.
Mr. Perez's friends, many of them living in private walk-ups, disdained dealers from the projects, whom they saw as more wanton in their violence.
In court filings, prosecutors said Butina viewed a relationship with the person as "simply a necessary aspect of her activities" and disdained living with him.
That, too, has been part of the fun of this Olympics, the giddy embrace of the theatricality and flamboyance that were formerly disdained or ridiculed.
Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu both disdained close-ups, and Mizoguchi used elaborate, choreographed camera movements but in long shot, affording a more detached perspective.
Others disdained it entirely, like the anarchist Emma Goldman, who thought that all voting was a tool used by the powerful to distract the weak.
Tillerson notoriously shied away from the press, in part because he disdained the media and didn't fully grasp the public-facing nature of his job.
Trump wanted to lift sanctions on Vladimir Putin's regime, and disdained the U.S. intelligence community's finding that Russia had intervened on his behalf in the election.
Owen, the disdained younger son of a plutocrat family (they made their fortune in poop bots), is scraping by on temp jobs and haunted by hallucinations.
In conversations with Mr. Peterson, Mr. Rogan disdained the "the social justice warrior brigade," but also lamented President Trump's failure to distance himself from white supremacists.
In 2016, Republican primary voters seized the opportunity to choose a candidate who disdained his party's previous support of these pillars of an assertive foreign policy.
He and his mother disdained contamination in all forms, and made every effort to distance themselves from poor black people, to avoid being stained by association.
In 1924 he was relegated to being a barely noticed rank-and-file delegate to the national convention that nominated Coolidge, a disdained Bay State rival.
They reveled in the disrepute of their chosen genre and did not mind at all that their movies were disdained by (most) parents and (many) critics.
Justice Scalia also disdained the use of legislative history — statements from members of Congress about the meaning and purposes of laws — in the judicial interpretation of statutes.
And not because Mike disdained Jack from the start, or wasted all that time talking on the phone, or took a seat whenever he felt like it.
Gesell's decision was instantly moot, because the Justice Department had already appointed a new special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski, and Cox disdained any attempt to reclaim his position.
As in "Alice in Wonderland" or "The Phantom Tollbooth," Fidge is dragged through a gantlet of absurdity, forcing her to engage with a fictional world she disdained.
In "Outsiders," Gordon tells the stories of five visionary women who disdained convention and made literary history: Eliot, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf.
On the other side of the country, the Jordan Cove Pipeline, which will cut through southern Oregon, is largely disdained by the tribal nations along its route.
He is also amenable to repairing bikes regardless of their vintage (a practice disdained by some high-end shops), as well as his neighbors' walkers and wheelchairs.
He said that he traveled professionally more often than he was on campus, in part because he disdained what he called the lack of culture in Columbus.
The party represents the interests of Thaksin Shinawatra, a polarizing former prime minister as beloved by the rural poor as he is disdained by the establishment elite.
SINCE coming to power in 2010, the government of Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, has consistently disdained judicial independence, academic and media freedoms, and the rights of migrants.
Z-Bo's unrefined, in-the-mud style of play was emblematic of a Grizzlies team that disdained finesse in favor of winning games by getting down and dirty.
And as long as the use of creative accounting is limited, it is very unlike The Economist to propose that such a hard-data approach should be disdained.
They disdained to follow the example set in 2015 in the neighbouring state of Bihar, where rival local groups successfully joined in a coalition to trounce the BJP.
For example, Roger Stone, a close Trump ally, advanced the unsubstantiated and widely disdained theory that Lyndon Johnson, who became president upon Kennedy's death, was involved in it.
One of the earliest signs that Trump's "America First," anti-immigration mantra would resonate was a survey showing how many white Republican disdained the changing demographics around them.
Americans made Barack Obama their first black president — and then elected Donald Trump, who has sympathized with white supremacists, disdained African-Americans protesting injustice, and crudely demeaned immigrants.
And while Houellebecq has always been a polarizing figure — admired for his provocations, disdained for his crudeness — he has turned out to be a writer of unusual prescience.
I've read all these books about how Lincoln was hated, but I was still surprised by how disdained and disliked he was by so many of his contemporaries.
What would the world look like if everyone that Donald J. Trump had ever disdained — the Mexicans and the Muslims, the nasty women and the failing journalists — vanished?
Still, in 1917, when Germany proposed an alliance against the United States with the promise of returning the territories lost in 1848, President Venustiano Carranza disdained the offer.
A born storyteller who disdained linear narrative, he adapted Racine's "Bérénice," in 1983, and Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island," in 1985, both in the retrospective, to suit himself.
In the Emirates at that time, the acceptable form of advanced contemporary Arabic work was calligraphic abstraction, which Sharif disdained, as he did all forms of "nationalist" art.
He relished especially the British Open, once disdained by Americans, because it gave him the chance to play, and win, in the rain-and-windswept cradle of the game.
From the alliance's perspective, CarbonWA was being piloted by arrogant wonks who disdained the need for coalition building and had formed something of a cult of personality around Bauman.
Blurred to the point of near anonymity, these images are poetic representations of how institutionalization forcibly removes individual identity by amassing offenders into a singular and heavily disdained mass.
Personally I've always disdained talk of a third party, mostly because the structural barriers against such parties are so high, no matter how scintillatingly attractive they seem in theory.
A modern-day peasants' and workers' revolt against a president increasingly disdained for his regal remove turned the country's richest boulevards and most prominent landmarks into veritable war zones.
The Cham were a disdained minority in both Cambodia and Vietnam, fishermen and river traders who long ago conquered Angkor and plied the southern seas from China to Arabia.
Could a more polished politician, a Trump 2.0, run a similar campaign on the right that embraced populism and disdained the donor class—and then actually govern like a populist?
The Van Gogh of the film is in his waning years, and disdained by most of his peers — including, to some extent, his buddy Paul Gauguin, played by Oscar Isaac.
He had long disdained the industry, which had gone through many bankruptcies, but said he is confident it will not resort to "suicidally competitive" pricing strategies that could spell doom.
The third night, a Friday, when the Starlet broke out in its usual half-assed pool revels, which we usually disdained, Todbaum surprised me by suggesting that we stay in.
Still, the most informally detectable, yet meaningful element was that while a majority disdained both candidates, a crucial crop of Americans shared more cultural affinities and frustrations with Mr. Trump.
Ocasio-Cortez has tempered her brash, institution-be-damned style with something different: a careful political calculus that adheres more closely to the unwritten rules of Washington she once disdained.
It called for civic engagement, disdained corruption and, with its leaders' willingness to indulge in invective and conspiracy theories, earned a profile as angry, webby and a little bit wacky.
N. He had long disdained the industry, which had gone through many bankruptcies, but said he is confident it will not resort to "suicidally competitive" pricing strategies that could spell doom.
And while there have been plenty of first ladies before her who have disdained the spotlight, Melania has kept one of the lowest profiles of any presidential spouse in modern memory.
But critics disdained and readers declined his first avowed work of fiction, "Mardi," leading him to write two more books in a matter of months, " Redburn " (1849) and " White-Jacket " (1850).
Both are running on a platform of returning power to the people and nurturing a sense of community and solidarity among Americans that many Republican politicians either ignored or openly disdained.
Although he considered himself a social scientist and a "micro-microeconomist," Professor Shubik, who taught at the Yale School of Management, disdained purely theoretical analysis and was nothing if not practical.
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Whereas Mezher disdained the trappings of rank—he wore his major's patch only for meetings with superiors—Rayyan kept his uniform pressed and his pockets stocked with gold-colored ballpoint pens.
Broken rice, whose rough shards were once disdained and cast aside for the poor, turns into satisfyingly sticky, earthy congee, saturated by white wine, lemongrass and the saline runoff of clams.
Seven years younger than Gillian, an afterthought in the family, their father's favorite, fey and fine-boned, Serena had had whatever success she wanted with the town boys and disdained it.
Back in those days presidential candidates kept their faith to themselves unless, like John F. Kennedy or George Romney, they were adherents to a religion historically disdained by the Protestant majority.
Though he was often referred to as the "grandfather of climate science" or the "father of global warming," Dr. Broecker disdained such titles, which he said were better deserved by others.
Washington (CNN)The Trump administration, which has disdained truth and consciously snubbed its allies, is now facing a tough burden of proof and history as it barrels toward a confrontation with Iran.
That, ultimately, is why I most wish I'd been able to watch this show at 16, when I was very certain of the answers to everything and disdained those who believed otherwise.
But there is reality, and there is perception, and the truth is that Trump voters perceive themselves as victims who have been culturally dislocated, disdained, and in danger of being left behind.
Kim Jong-Un must be gloating about his master stroke in getting a man who labeled him "little rocket man," and who previously disdained talks, to undertake a long trip for nothing.
It's yet another way he can realize the harsh vision of his campaign — another way he can fulfill his promise to target the disfavored and disdained with the power of the state.
The vast sprawl of suburbs and satellite towns around Paris, disdained by some as a breeding ground for crime and terrorism, is home to the greatest pool of soccer talent in Europe.
Nobody believes that Mr. Johnson, who is widely disdained in Brussels, especially after his gaffe-prone stint as foreign secretary, will be able to wrest a better deal than the diligent Mrs.
Mr. Perry so disdained that department when he was running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2011 that he blanked on its name when listing the federal agencies he wanted to abolish.
As every action calls forth a reaction, this long-ago progressive court called into being a reactionary counter-rhetoric that disdained "activist judges" and celebrated the humble wisdom of democratic self-government.
If "socialism" is like every other idea Trump has attacked and disdained, then the Republican Party should prepare for even more Americans embracing the term — and the ideas that come with it.
Between the lines: The strikes happened to occur one month before Trump must decide whether to renew the sanction waivers of the Iran deal, which he has long disdained, or let it collapse.
Business ____ The vast sprawl of suburbs and satellite towns around Paris, disdained by some as a breeding ground for crime and terrorism, is home to the greatest pool of soccer talent in Europe.
Trump's appeals in his speech to the Iranian people also sounded hollow from a president who isn't exactly a tribune of liberalism and has disdained human rights as a tool of U.S. diplomacy.
"The Great Beauty" was disdained by some leading Italian film critics — and Romans — maybe because it hit too close to home with its portrait of the ruling class's complicity in the country's decline.
On Tuesday afternoon "the industry's bete noire Alden Global Capital shocked the industry by buying out the quarter share of Tribune Publishing owned by (almost equally disdained) Michael Ferro's ownership group," Doctor wrote.
Although he disdained theories, he was a major theoretical influence on the shape of the American city, because the works he created in New York proved a model for the nation at large.
At 22, Ms. Hepnarova was disdained by her family, resigned to her sexuality but frustrated and bored by the women she was sleeping with, and reflexively shunned by most of her lumpen colleagues.
Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, is feeling rightly threatened by the breadth and source of last year's popular uprising — not the disdained Tehran elite, but a cross-cut of Iranian society in the conservative hinterlands.
Democratic norms and institutions are openly disdained; illiberal and authoritarian ideas from the alt-right and far left are moving from the fringe; and everywhere, truth and civility are squeezed out amid rancor and conspiracism.
It's a harrowing cautionary tale showing that democracy can be sabotaged even more diabolically by a trusted insider, respected by most of the press, than by a clownish outsider, disdained by most of the press.
The populist fervor these voters express is almost as old as the nation: They see themselves playing by the rules but still getting screwed, disdained by elites above them and mooched off by freeloaders beneath.
Whether Jon Stewart or the Jewish Republican donors disdained the kitschy builder with his flamboyant hair, his money, his bling and his properties, including the now world-famous Trump Tower, is obviously not the question.
When 21st-century Americans lament the deterioration of civil society and the atomization of our national purpose, we are in many ways mourning the loss of the best parts of the culture that Whyte disdained.
Maggie — whose queerness her mother openly disdained — decides to personally deliver these mysterious messages, and, in doing so, discovers she might not have known her mother, or her seemingly perfect marriage to her father, at all.
While the Clinton administration took an essentially carrot-and-stick approach to North Korea's nuclear program — if you give them some stuff, and threaten other stuff, maybe you can shape their behavior — the Bush team disdained negotiations.
Under the authority of Robert Moses, New York's mid-century master planner, who openly disdained the amusement district, Coney Island was rezoned, much of it rebuilt into a vertical landscape that brought with it persistent urban blight.
" For Abbe, who is now a professor of ancient art at the University of Georgia, the idea that the ancients disdained bright color "is the most common misconception about Western aesthetics in the history of Western art.
The great German modernists who were his contemporaries mostly disdained him: "A little man," according to the poet Gottfried Benn; "He displays the foibles of a greater writer than he actually is," the novelist Robert Musil said.
Before the Wednesday evening acceptance speech, Haldeman told his journal that Nixon "wants to do his makeup in the trailer" and didn't want his family mingling onstage with that of Vice President Spiro Agnew, whom he disdained.
He began his career as a left-wing polemicist and ended it as a zealot for American empire and the New Atheism, animated by a dogmatism that put most of the religiously faithful he disdained to shame.
But many on the left either disdained electoral politics altogether — preferring demonstrations like Occupy Wall Street that quickly turned into ends in themselves — or gravitated toward nihilistic spoiler campaigns like those of Ralph Nader and Jill Stein.
Broken trust Trump views criticism of his approach as the naive complaints of a political establishment that led America into nearly two decades of foreign wars and disdained the voters that put him in office in 2016.
He presents a president who, for all his flaws, was usually gracious and warmhearted, who disdained the sort of divisive bashing that Mr. Trump favors and who went out of his way to make Barack Obama's transition successful.
But in a political climate where truth is dismissed, diversity is disdained, and free access to resources is a radical notion, it can be difficult to figure out where politics end and moral, or even professional, imperatives begin.
Thiel largely stood alone supporting Trump in Silicon Valley Thiel, who donated $1.25 million to Trump's campaign late in the election cycle, mostly stood alone among colleagues in his support for Trump, who was publicly disdained in the Valley.
Trump practiced the racism of exceptions: He disdained poor minorities — those who wanted to rent his property; criminal suspects like the Central Park Five, of whom he wrote, "I want to hate," and whom he wanted to have executed.
More radical and Romantic spirits especially disdained the way this titan seemed content to be a servant to princes—and Grand Duke Karl August of Weimar, despite his title, was a fairly minor prince—in an age of revolution.
With "the underlying support from improving economic fundamentals and likely further improvements in corporate revenue and earnings trends this year, the ever so unloved and disdained bull market might have more upside than even its earliest adopters and supporters project."
The theory of Trump/Pence 2020, initiated in unusual campaign rallies during the presidential transition, has disdained broadening his base in favor of keeping voters who idolize him motivated and sufficiently angry to return to polling places in huge numbers.
For a long time the work-centered social network LinkedIn, which was acquired by Microsoft yesterday for $26.2 billion, had the opposite problem: it was a reliable generator of cash, but is disdained by a large swathe of its user base.
"The publication of this biography, which Beckett has disdained to avert and apparently to read, is a new disaster for a man who sees his 72 years as a prolonged disaster," Richard Ellmann wrote in The New York Review of Books.
Mr. Trump, who has disdained the prospects of negotiating with North Korea, said earlier in the day that the possible talks between the two governments on the peninsula resulted from sanctions imposed by the United States and the international community.
They disdained his eloquence and his acknowledgment that many of the Yellow Vests had been placed in an impossible situation — forced out of the cities by high housing prices, and now priced out of rural areas by rising gas prices.
They are enticed by the increased prestige of writing for a medium long disdained as a vast wasteland, in the era of Peak TV, when streaming services do battle with the broadcast and cable networks to win the allegiances of audiences.
It has been ungallantly pointed out that, though Anne was William's senior by eight years, the age gap between Dench and Branagh is almost twenty years wider; on the other hand, no chance to see her on film should be disdained.
Résumés are coming in from branches of the Party that had disdained Trump; both Presidents Bush stayed out of the race, but the Trump transition team, now led by Vice-President-elect Mike Pence, is well staffed with their former aides.
Some were more sanguine than others, but all shared a few general areas of concern: Trump has long disdained or ignored the formal national security policy process, which is designed to keep U.S. officials in sync and guard against illegal actions.
But the real function of Davos — and the reason it's so often disdained by the people who would never be invited to it — is that it allows elites to network and collaborate on deals with incredible speed and little public input.
Through May 29 The 19th-century British painters known as the pre-Raphaelites disdained the work of the artist Raphael, who they believed took the verve out of painting (the group preferred the profligate styling developed by his predecessors, Michelangelo in particular).
The robust condemnations Mr. Trump has received from media and political elites have only intensified the enthusiasm of his supporters, many of whom feel disdained and forgotten by the very same people who regularly mock and chide their man for his boorishness.
But as a president who came of age after the war ended, he is unlikely to be a symbol of healing of the psychological wounds that some veterans suffered upon returning home, when many of their countrymen disdained them for fighting there.
Yet Macron offered momentary comfort to foreign policy veterans of past administrations — the "establishment" Trump has disdained — who fear for the future of institutions such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization.
With the "reboot" of Room For Cream at The New Museum this fall, The Dyke Division of the Two-Headed Calf posits the soap opera genre, often disdained for its feminine subjects and audience, as the ideal medium to document gender variation.
In that way, Trump's hatred, racism, insecurity, anti-intellectualism and grudge against the elite society that had always disdained him was perfectly suited for conservatives who were entertaining the same notions but had no one to openly champion their intolerance with effrontery.
The mockingbirds are finally interested in the suet balls they disdained all summer, and the gorgeous blue jays, their bright colors even bluer against the sepia backdrop of winter, carry away the unshelled nuts I set along the deck rail for squirrels.
Few Republicans can appreciate the political challenges of the Affordable Care Act like Davy Carter, a Republican and former speaker of the Arkansas House, who shepherded the law's Medicaid expansion through his conservative legislature in a state where President Barack Obama was disdained.
For a man who swept into office in 2010 by promoting his résumé as a no-nonsense accountant and businessman who was above politics, Governor Snyder now finds himself in the middle of the kind of bitter partisan warfare that he has long disdained.
He had little use for contemporary music (needlessly complex or dull, he said), disdained serial technique and sniffed at the 1970s revival of Gustav Mahler's sprawling, emotionally overflowing symphonies, although he did profess at one point to have gone through his own Mahler period.
Mr. Carpenter was both a driven entrepreneur and an easygoing dude who disdained a desk in his office, encouraged his employees to bring their dogs to work and gave his staff days off to snowboard when storms dropped two feet or more of snow.
Obama, once a reluctant political spouse who disdained the partisan fray, but who evolved over eight years into a popular and high-profile first lady, spending the final months of her husband's presidency as a uniquely powerful voice for Democrats against Mr. Trump's candidacy.
"He held contentious press conferences with world leaders who are disdained in conservative circles while also getting the all important 10 Downing Street visit and greeting with the queen at Buckingham Palace, which always plays well with mid and high income voters," he said.
Not, of course, because he disdained the documentary impulse but, rather, in order to register that he himself, who was not Jewish and had only an indirect connection to the Shoah, was merely a survivor of the survivors—and even then only in a figurative sense.
We are not at the point yet where study and nose-to-the-grindstone ethic is completely disdained, but the idea that individual differences leading to distinct stratification must be subsumed by a gray sameness, all in service of fairness, is rising rapidly, leastways in progressive precincts.
Mr. Loeb's comments reflect the hostile divide depicted in "Trilogy's" third act between the bone-crunching aggressiveness of the traders who brought in unimagined earnings and the old-style bankers, with their "velvet and cuff links," who loved the profits but disdained the ways they were acquired.
An Algerian who collaborated with the French to suppress dissent during the Algerian War of Independence (including taking part in a massacre in 1961), Mario now finds himself excruciatingly lonely in old age, renounced by the people he betrayed and disdained by whites for his race.
His primal screams about immigrants, Muslims, China, "political correctness" and the corrupt bargain between special interests and Washington have found an enthusiastic audience among white working-class Americans who feel squeezed by changes in the economy and the country and disdained by elites from the Acela Corridor to Hollywood.
Shore has peers in a generation that, in the nineteen-seventies, stormed to eminence with color film, which art photographers had long disdained, and, often, with a detached scrutiny of suburban sprawl, woebegone towns, touristed nature, cars (always cars), and other familiar and banal, accidentally beautiful, cross-country phenomena.
Though disdained as peasant food for nearly a century after it became commonplace, many of the pies these 18th century Neapolitans were eating closely resemble pizzas still enjoyed today, such as the Pizza Mozzarella, later renamed the Margherita pizza in honor of Italy's Queen Margherita a century later.
" He did so, Podhoretz argues, by capitalizing on media and organizational tools disdained by the establishment: Alex Jones's Infowars; the American Media supermarket tabloids, including The National Enquirer, Star and the Globe; the WWE professional wrestling network where "Trump intermittently served as a kind of Special Guest Villain.
Though I thought the piece was quite funny, I couldn't help but feel that the laughs were cheaply won, affirming the belief of many Middle Americans that they are disdained by liberal urban élites—as if it were pathetic to enjoy a meal at Red Lobster with one's family.
Mr. Trump's loyalists in the House and other Republicans used the report, released last week by the Justice Department's inspector general, to cast the F.B.I. as part of an out-of-touch Washington bureaucracy that disdained both Mr. Trump and the blue-collar voters who swept him into office.
Zell Miller, a cantankerously independent politician from the mountains of northern Georgia who disdained backslapping and baby-kissing as he snarled at journalists and battled fellow Democrats in his four years as a United States senator, died on Friday morning at his home in Young Harris, Ga. He was 21975.
The president's decision to advocate what amounts to a regime change in Venezuela, encouraged by Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, and other longstanding critics of the leftist leadership in Caracas, is the sort of international assertion that Mr. Trump has disdained in past administrations — and one with enormous risks.
In order to save Eliza's chances, he ventures into the world of favor-trading and back-scratching that he had always disdained, turning to a high-ranking police officer (Vlad Ivanov, a guarantor of Romanian cinematic authenticity) and a local politician (Petre Ciubotaru) in an effort to rig Eliza's test scores.
Many of these bikers are themselves veterans, and the ones who aren't tend to have a view — lingering from the political and cultural wars around the Vietnam War — of veterans as a class of people abandoned and disdained by liberal America, whom bikers have a duty to respect and support.
But after nearly nine months, with her eyes now wide open to the downsides of her revolutionary reputation and social media fame, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has tempered her brash, institution-be-damned style with something different: a careful political calculus that adheres more closely to the unwritten rules of Washington she once disdained.
He never learned responsibility, he never learned how to wear a suit, he never learned ... Instead, he disdained it, rather than understood that it was part of a social compact that you had to learn certain behaviors and not just pick up butter with your hand or whatever he was talking about.
At a time when the most lauded composers disdained overproduction, Mr. Glass wrote unashamedly for everyone and everything — and all stubbornly in the distinctive style he created, establishing a model for serious artists moving from the opera house to the concert hall to the film studio, garnering both Met commissions and Academy Award nominations.
His acidic portrayal of Mr. Trump as a president in over his head, disdained by aides who are astounded by his lack of fitness for the job, has dominated headlines and social media for days, along with his purportedly verbatim quotes from figures like Mr. Bannon and Mr. Murdoch dismissing Mr. Trump as a fool.
I disdained them, and was aware that my disdain was born of dislike for what these friends proved about me: that whatever I was doing—cultivating a taste for chipped mirrors and monochrome palettes, reading self-help books that scorned other self-help books—was a life of ugly indecision, pooling like day-old rainwater.
And yet some of the pictures might have entered the Museum of Modern Art in 242, on the occasion of a little-noted solo show at the Fieldston School, in the Bronx, had Shannon not disdained an offer, from the museum's director, Alfred H. Barr , of one dollar apiece for small ones and two dollars apiece for the large.
For Mr. Spicer, who resigned this summer after repeated clashes with the news media and a sharp disagreement with Mr. Trump over the appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director, the Emmys were his latest attempt to court the largely liberal coastal entertainment and news elites he so acidly disdained as the president's alter-ego spokesman.
For them, the election of Donald Trump represents not a fundamental reordering of policy priorities to put them more in line with the interests of Americans who have been ignored and disdained by the political and media elite, but an opportunity to seize the levers of executive power to advance the same old losing GOP agenda.
Because they were created for television, did not write their own songs (that was left to professionals like Gerry Goffin, Carole King and others) and did not play their own instruments (they mimed playing on camera), the Monkees were disdained by many; if the Beatles were the Fab Four, the Monkees quickly earned the derisive nickname the Prefab Four.
That a pathologically careless demagogue who marshalled racial hatred, bragged about sexual assault, and openly disdained the country he sought to lead could be rewarded with the stewardship of the free world registered as a stupid and senselessly cruel act of brutality; a warning shot that there are no marginalized groups in America who have made gains that can not still be destroyed.
One, if not the only, meaning of Brexit is that, having lost faith in glib promises of a globalization for all, the other part of the nation — the losers, the shutout and the disdained — have decided, in desperation, to make a sovereign gesture: to change the rules by returning to nation-state politics in order to have a go at leveling things up.
As with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, who has disdained negotiating the future of his nuclear arsenal with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rather than with Mr. Trump himself, Mr. Erdogan was contemptuous of Mr. Bolton's effort to flesh out an American withdrawal that Mr. Trump broached in a phone call with Mr. Erdogan just before announcing it on Dec. 19.
The call is a vivid illustration of a major scandal that threatens to reshape Israeli politics but has gotten very little attention in the US. Many Americans think about Netanyahu solely through the prism of his government's often rocky relationship with the US. He and former President Barack Obama openly disdained each other and fought publicly over issues like Iran and Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Today, the Women's World Games are a largely forgotten chapter in the struggle for women's equality, but from 1922 to 1934, they existed as a kind of middle finger to the IOC and the International Association of Athletics Federations, the world governing body for track and field, both of which disdained and were to some degree frightened by the first-wave feminists who wanted to compete.
Influential conservatives are pressing President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE to nominate Bill Pryor, a judge feared and disdained by liberals but loved by conservatives because of his "titanium spine," to the Supreme Court.
Among the obstacles on the path to hero-hood: xenophobic prejudice (Lilli is disdained as a mammal), the bureaucratic paralysis of the mayor (Gaelen Gilliland), panic-rousing media coverage (Kelvin Moon Loh is fabulous as a glam-rock newscaster) and the villainous obstructions of the evil Sheldon Plankton (Wesley Taylor, who isn't scary, presumably by design) and his wife, Karen the Computer (Stephanie Hsu).
Over a 30-year career in which he served three Republican presidents, including as United Nations ambassador and the State Department's top arms control official, Mr. Bolton has largely disdained diplomacy and arms control in favor of military solutions; no one worked harder to blow up the 1994 agreement under which North Korea's plutonium program was frozen for nearly eight years in exchange for heavy fuel oil and other assistance.
With Roosevelt, Shapiro has more to work with, stitching together a plausible narrative that questions the long-held perception of the first lady as someone who disdained food to a fault and offers instead a nuanced portrait of a woman struggling to seize control of her complicated life — and a woman who saw home economics as a serious and empowering science and did, eventually, find joy in culinary pleasures.
He has disparaged NATO, an alliance that has helped keep the peace in Europe for more than half a century; cozied up to Russia and its latter-day czar, Vladimir Putin; disdained global solutions to global problems like climate change and the surge of refugees from Syria, Iraq and elsewhere; and declared his intention to upend the international trading system created by the United States and its allies.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's efforts to modulate her approach to better fit the constraints of the institution in which she serves: After nearly nine months, with her eyes now wide open to the downsides of her revolutionary reputation and social media fame, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has tempered her brash, institution-be-damned style with something different: a careful political calculus that adheres more closely to the unwritten rules of Washington she once disdained.
Gorka found himself under fire in March when the Forward published a story alleging that Gorka is a sworn member of a Hungarian far-right group known as Vitézi Rend, which is listed by the State Department as having been "under the direction of the Nazi Government of Germany" during World War II. Gorka is widely disdained within the national security field, and several national-security experts have cast doubt on his credentials, questioning whether he has the experience to give advice in the White House.

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