So many of us learn as we go through life to hide that most passionate part of ourselves, because that attracts criticism, or scorn, or rejection.
Or the scorn with which many look back at the Bush presidency.
On this point -- and here I'll fend off the wrath or maybe the scorn of the managers by quoting not a scholar or a professor, but rather a witness called by the majority members of the Judiciary Committee to testify as an expert on the issue of perjury, a witness who had served on the Judiciary Committee in 1974.
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While fans of Manchester United or Liverpool would scorn at the renaming of Old Trafford as the Aon Arena or Anfield as the Standard Chartered Stadium, regular rechristening is the norm for the 18 Bundesliga teams.
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Maybe that is an accurate reflection of the adolescent mind, in its need to scorn or elide more senior lives, but dramatically it still feels like a waste.
It says much for Mr Francis that he treats all this kindly, even deferentially, and never shows scorn either for Ann or for her followers.
Panama's canal officials scorn all such plans: shifting containers from ship to train or road and back again costs too much, they say.
BlackBerry is taking scorn for its capricious ad depicting several fantastic scenarios created by, or solved by (it's not always clear what the heck is going on during the montage), the upcoming Z10 smartphone.
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Mr Abu Rumeila praises Mr Fayyad, a non-Fatah technocrat, for his repeated walkabouts in places such as Jenin, but pours scorn on his Fatah masters who seem either to jet around the world or stay cocooned in their government compounds in Ramallah.
The manuscripts offend the Salafists less than the tombs or graven images do, though some address the Sufi school of Islam, which they scorn.
If a kid sees a woman wearing a T-shirt reading "I'm With Stupid, " he or she might take the words to heart, thereafter treating the woman's husband with scorn, derision and perhaps even contumely.
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