"You get criticized for trying something; you get criticized for not trying something," said Mr. Sherak, whose show came in for some public denigration as well as a share of private grousing by those in the game.
We did a carjacking on that word a few decades ago, and now you're mad because we've made more sexy use of it—some denigration as well.
With Saudi Arabia and Qatar among the last countries to add female athletes to their Olympics contingents, Sarah Attar and Wojdan Shaherkani, a judoka, broke the ground and ignored the odd social-media denigration as best they could.
Perhaps this split personality has its origins in the restaurant's name: "bobo," an abbreviated portmanteau of "bourgeois" and "bohemian," is one of those terms which are used more often as denigration than as compliment.
Some, like me, use self-denigration as a way to rise up.
Therefore, although the majority of those polled said they admired many things about the West, and in particular about America (its technology, work ethic, freedoms, democracy), Muslims' major grievance against the West is what they identify as the denigration of Islam and Muslims, as well as the extent to which Arabs and Muslims are seen by the West as inferior and not of equal value.
(None of this should be construed as a denigration of pop music--as readers of my blog know, I enjoy and listen to a great deal of music in the pop idiom, I just don't expect it to give me what I get from classical music and jazz, nor do I expect classical music and jazz to give me what I get from pop music).
He referred, again and again, to Trump's smear of Mexican immigrants as "rapists" and to his denigration of women as pigs or dogs.
And for a small minority in many countries, the exclusionary Saudi version of Sunni Islam, with its denigration of Jews and Christians, as well as of Muslims of Shiite, Sufi and other traditions, may have made some people vulnerable to the lure of Al Qaeda, the Islamic State and other violent jihadist groups.
We like the hero, for all his fecklessness and dogged self-denigration, much as we like the raving heroes of Hamsun's "Hunger" and Dostoyevsky's "Notes from Underground": naked honesty engages us.
Meanwhile, as Steiner sees it, the avant-garde's misogyny found a paradoxical echo in feminism's denigration of beauty as a sign of women's subordination.
