Exempel på disdain

• At once disdained and central to the boundaries that maintain social order, such groups continually enact this contradiction by being socially marginal and ideologically compelling.

• Metaethics disdains substantive ethics; its "real" problems are epistemological; its discourse is the technical jargon of philosophy.

• Professional philosophy disdained "public philosophy" (today's "applied ethics" and "bioethics").

• While disdaining the effects of commercial civilization, he still believed that an enhanced appreciation of the past could help create a better future.

• They may have disdained the generals for fighting the last war, but it was not only scholarly allure that gave the academics a platform.

• Though they were selfproclaimed elites and disdained comparison with communal area farmers and their extensive farming techniques, they were not intensive farmers.

• They collaborated as much as they resisted, disdained all agricultural labour and were intensely and violently male-chauvinist.

• When one is young, one admires vibrant emotion and disdains cold calculation.

• He believed in eclecticism and open essayistic writing, disdaining jargon.

• To make matters worse, many of the able-bodied beggars disdained humility or deference in their predicament, relying on intimidation rather than supplication to obtain their goals.

• 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.

• They also disdained class-and-capital mindedness.

• The department generally disdained subletting.

• One dean openly disdained formal ethics training.

• Descriptions of all these spontaneous, dynamic, frequently female-centered, and often disdained expressive practices of common folk played a significant role in the invention of traditions and the construction of nationalities.