While disdaining the effects of commercial civilization, he still believed that an enhanced appreciation of the past could help create a better future.
He believed in eclecticism and open essayistic writing, disdaining jargon.
Preachers have reputedly been bitten hundreds of times but survive to continue handling cottonmouths and rattlesnakes, disdaining medical attention in the belief that faith is the only cure.
Icarus, we are told, disdaining parental admonition and advice, flew too high so that his wings were melted by the sun.
He travelled separately in a hired vessel, disdaining to share the discomforts of the warship carrying his troops.
Often disdaining established and chain restaurants, she gravitated to obscure and new eateries.
Sandry describes her parents as a cheerful but flighty young couple, disdaining the duties of their nobility to travel the world.
Disdaining evasive tactics when under the heaviest fire, he always went straight to his objectives.
