While hardly able to spell or write, and bearing stilted traces of the Old World, he cannot be scorned or dismissed.
But Mr Prendergast cannot conceal his scorn for what, he considers, has become "an altogether shoddier affair, progressively mummified into formal ritual orchestrated by assorted dignitaries" and "media kitsch".
You cannot miss the skeptical scorn on her face, and it's true that the female characters do their best to put the moral brakes on the men, but there's no mistaking the movie's obsession with that loyalty, or the cunning with which many scenes are designed — even rigged — to show the criminal fraternity as a closed loop.
For "there is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn".
These kids may be depressed or suicidal not because they are gay, but because they cannot cope with the scorn and loathing from people like Sally Kern.
Personally, I incline to metaphysics of silence, like Wittgenstein, but--like Wittgenstein again--I cannot bring myself to scorn other ways human beings cope with finitude, not with a blanket indictment.
If slavery were to "die without the aid of our race to kill it," Gooding explained, "language cannot depict the indignity, the scorn, and perhaps violence that will be heaped upon us".
The old year may die, and a new one be born That is bleaker and colder; But it cannot dismay us; we dare it — we scorn, For love makes us bolder.
Every country has a homeless problem, but I cannot think of another developed country that scorns its homeless people more willfully, thus exacerbating their physical, emotional and mental health issues, sometimes beyond repair.
Sometimes, Jennifer Ross feels she cannot make a move at home without inviting the scorn of her daughters, 10-year-old Grace and 7-year-old Eliza.
