Reilly from "A Confederacy of Dunces, " whose disdain for all things contemporary highlights the virtues and vices of modern life.
Gervais is in that ornery tradition of awkward customers, and he comes with the considerable built-in advantage of being English, which makes his disdain and sarcasm all the more heartfelt.
For months, we have been reporting the severe loss of confidence in all of our national institutions, topped by disdain for government and Wall Street.
All this has exempted her from the lasting public disdain for politicians that has hampered her opponents, including poor Mr Duhalde.
It's an argument unlikely to sway Wilson, who has made no secret of his disdain for the U.S. government in particular and all governments in general. (Defense Distributed makes and sells components with names like "The Cuomo" and "The Pelosi, " to tweak politicians who support gun control).
Wilson, a law student at the University of Texas in Austin, has made no secret of his disdain for the U.S. government in particular and all governments in general. (Defense Distributed makes and sells components with names like "The Cuomo" and "The Pelosi, " to tweak politicians who support gun control).
Despite his disdain for meat industry practices, Bourdain thinks the push for an all-vegetarian diet is off-base.
Polls show that although most Europeans support the idea of unity, they dislike and disdain euro institutions, particularly regulation-loving bureaucracies in Brussels that spew out rules covering all aspects of life, such as what constitutes a banana or how loud a lawnmower can be.
The fact that he will publicly flaunt his disdain for paying taxes in a country that even his manager acknowledges has been very good to him (all but three of his professional fights in the last ten years have taken place in the United States where he enjoys enormous popularity) is just irritating.
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