The boundary of wretched practitioners and refined doctors is again transgressed, and she even scorns the insufficiency of scientific knowledge.
He scorned the device suggested by the author of flinging himself into an armchair.
Even more incongruously it had made him a figure to be courted, albeit not always with great appetite, by the cultural and artistic intelligentsia that had heretofore scorned him.
Really, they were little better than the meridian of the earth, which he had just scorned, because the solid theoretical explanation of invariance was still lacking.
Now she regrets her pride because she fears that her true lover has found another sweetheart and that it will be her turn to be scorned.
She scorned the possibility that these virtues were exploited as a form of social control, and saw hypocrisy as in essence ethical, upholding standards whatever one's personal failures.
He would have scorned to destroy fish with poison or explosives.
Civil liberties, trade union freedom and the freedom of expression continue to be scorned.
The conservatives have scorned this as being what they call a watered-down version of the traditional concept of civil human rights.
I come to another more general thing which scorns to be occurring.
The best way to deal with that challenge is not by scorning people but by helping them.
We scorned them because they did not have the skills that we thought that we had.
We were scorned when we said that ways could be found of choosing the infrastructure in which investment could be placed without increasing inflation.
I think these things ought to be said, since this enterprise is now being scorned and ridiculed and its essential service belittled.
No one has mentioned what scorns to me to be the kernel of this pro- blem.
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