That whole look: those Guess jeans with the peg-legs and the high waist?" His self-scorn has found its appropriate level.
His animated arms, marking every phrase with some sort of gesture, never stop moving, but of Hamlet's inward journey, from confusion and mourning, through rage and self-scorn into resignation, we get very few glimpses.
You can see why Gonzales has previously been dismissed as a prankster, but the torrent of self-scorn here is delivered with such sincerity and wit that when he likens himself to Seinfeld co-writer/Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David, the comparison feels exactly right.
Such layers of taunting which become internalized and self-scorn can create longstanding scars, especially to a fragile psyche, as Jonathan Martin's was purported to be.
Take that splendid passage where she denounces all the men in her life except her Daddy as "flops". What a wonderfully American word, and what scorn (and self-scorn) the actress brings to it.
It's not just the practicalities of bringing up a kid when the rest of your class is barely able to get themselves up in the morning – it's also the perpetual, self-satisfied scorn that gets thrown at young mothers.
That's the story of the film, one that Solondz approaches both somberly and playfully, in an effort to get at supreme humanistic themes of love, art, and death — and Solondz gets at them with a sense of style, insight, terror, self-excoriation, scorn, and empathy, creating a film that wouldn't be unworthy to share a space on the shelf somewhere near Bresson's great work.
Words of self-righteousness, scorn, and sarcasm pervaded the comments.
And we reserve these characterizations for those politicians— who are willing to endure our self-righteous scorn.
His two-part, seven-hour-long play, subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," might also be called a Reagan fantasia, commemorating a time when selfishness was extolled as a social good and self-sacrifice scorned as psychopathology, an era when people, jammed into pre-drilled holes, not surprisingly splintered.
"Still the place to be," she said, with her normal mix of self-congratulation and scorn.
