Thus, he enters the dining room, ready to abase himself because he disdains everyone else. |
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But his dominance, like Smiley's, arises from a quiet natural authority that disdains the tasteless excesses of ostentation and histrionics. |
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And I believe he puts a lot of weight on loyalty, and he disdains disloyalty. |
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He also disdains the disappearing-island theory, citing the contradiction of the building boom. |
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Like other populists, Chavez disdains any party institutionalization that might constrain his personal autonomy. |
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He disdains capitalism and free trade, and throughout the campaign accused Yushchenko of being a running-dog lackey of the Yankee imperialists. |
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Even the approaches he most disdains, among them rational choice theory, are considerably more sophisticated than he suggests. |
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Usually, it disdains the use of facades as a shell for a new building. |
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He generally disdains the intermediate interference of small-bore punctuation. |
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One that relishes challenge, disdains convention and delights in the unexpected. |
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The Brotherhood itself disdains him as a renegade, yet some liberal Egyptians fear him as a stalking horse for the Islamists. |
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Livestock disdains it owing to its bitter taste, and it represents serious competition for space and nutrients for fodder plants. |
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And ordinary folk busily lap up what the elite disdains. |
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Democratic voters there fret that he disdains their faith and their guns. |
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It is a state that disdains equal rights for women in political, economic and legal spheres, and does not allow them to have an equal say in the running of family affairs. |
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He disdains the culture of making money from money. |
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Enlarging the euro zone's rescue funds raises questions about the creditworthiness of even its most solid backers. Almost everybody disdains quick fixes. |
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Her cousin Cho-won is accomplished as a scholar, but rejects a high government post as if he disdains the hierarchical and patriarchal conventions of the time. |
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Why the owner of 10 000 chariots is haughty and disdains the entire world? |
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The topos of the philosopher who disdains material goods and withdraws from the world dates back at least to Classical Greek times. |
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He disdains the County Sec, but finds that Miss Florey, the headmistress, has worked for an archaeologist he admires. |
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