He is increasingly scornful of the very currency he is supposed to be defending.
Parker, characteristically, publicly displayed his scornful letter to Darrow as a lesson in humility.
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Some of the commentary on the vice-presidential debate judged that Joe Biden was too forceful, too rude, too scornful.
The club appealed, claiming that Beckham's behaviour had been neither "scornful nor sarcastic".
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The post-industrial educated class that now dominates Washington appears, if not scornful, profoundly detached from the problems facing productive industry.
Mr Blair is also scornful of the argument that phasing out Trident might persuade Iran to halt its nuclear programme.
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Meanwhile, those who dare to raise those questions and express such suspicions are often subjected by his supporters to scornful reproach.
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But given the scornful reaction to Mr Barroso's words, maybe he won't.
The way he handled it made her think he was scornful of its binding or paper stock, but then he read the dust flap, shuddered.
When the economy began to recover from the crisis of the late 1990s, Russians, scornful of their own car industry's Soviet-era products, began buying ever more used imported cars.
And they are scornful (and perhaps jealous) that he spends much of his time in a vast palazzo near Siena that he bought 30 years ago for a modest outlay.
Scornful of the old ways of doing business, drunk on their own rhetoric, backers of outfits such as Zethus persuaded many that the pace of change in business had gone from evolutionary to revolutionary.
Charles Koch became openly scornful of conventional politics.
De Bont, who seems to be fighting artistic flab, tries hard to convince us that we should be freaked out by billowing curtains and banging doors a gallant effort that should nonetheless be met with the scornful laughter that it deserves.
This drew a scornful response from Pakistan's high commission in London, not least because the raids were compromised by a senior British policeman who clumsily flashed plans of the arrests to a bank of photographers, forcing the operation to be brought forward by a day.
The only time I recall being scornful of shoddy goods was when a huge brick smokestack fell on and obviously killed the hero of a serial, "Don Winslow of the Navy, " and the following week's installment began with Commander Don emerging from a mountain of rubble.
If you thought the Board of the London Stock Exchange was a little scornful when it jilted Macquarie Bank for the first time back in December--" a derisory proposal which fundamentally undervalues the company and lacks any strategic or commercial credibility"--its latest blackball is downright disdainful.
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