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  • Scornful and contemptuous of business men on the one hand, on the other his relations with the San Francisco bosses had been more an alliance of expediency than anything else.

    Chapter XVIII 2010

  • Scornful rage swells, portending the onset of a merciless massacre, the likes of which have not been seen since the Slashfilmcast review of X-men Origins Wolverine.

    The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 93 - Theater Disasters and The Business of Hollywood | /Film 2010

  • Scornful of a weak sermon one Sunday when he was seventeen, he told the priest that he himself could preach better.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • Scornful of what they called “the card-and-pencil point of view,” they looked askance at adding up the mundane trifle of a paltry score.

    Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports Lewis Lapham 2010

  • He also does the usual Criminal Scornful Threat, “You have no proof.”

    CSI: Miami – “Count Me Out” – Review 2009

  • Death Turns the Tables (1941) (a: The Seat of the Scornful)

    Dr. Gideon Fell and John Dickson Carr Dark Worlds Club 2009

  • Scornful denial is shameful and the truth really hurts.

    Scornful denial Nomadicasian 2008

  • Scornful of the pitiful weapons wielded by man she hung there, her sinister beauty of line sharply defined against the cloudless sky.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Tim Stretton 2007

  • Scornful of the pitiful weapons wielded by man she hung there, her sinister beauty of line sharply defined against the cloudless sky.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2007

  • Scornful Academics: I have some thoughts on Elizabeth Blackburn, the cell biologist whose term on the President's Council for Bioethics was not renewed and who has made quite a fuss about it in the media, over at Tech Central Station.

    Archive 2004-04-01 2004

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