All 13 Uses of
scorn
in
The Magic Mountain
- And when Hans Castorp objected that he assumed a lowered room temperature was part of the regimen for the cure and presumably a way of keeping the patients from getting too spoiled, Settembrini responded with fierce scorn.†
Chpt 4.1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- That lady of noble lineage, the head nurse of whom Settembrini had spoken so scornfully and whom Hans Castorp had seen only fleetingly a few times, was in charge of the widower's household.†
Chpt 4.7scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- It had been very sensible advice, that was apparent now, and Settembrini had been wrong to throw his head back and laugh so scornfully—Settembrini with his republic and his beautiful style.†
Chpt 4.10
- "With a thermometer, of course," Hans Castorp replied, not without a mixture of severity and scorn.†
Chpt 4.10 *scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Naphta laughed scornfully, whereas Hans Castorp stated he believed every word Herr Settembrini had said.†
Chpt 6.6scornfully = in a disrespectful or rejecting manner
- In those days it was thought disgraceful to send to school any lad who did not wish to become a cleric, and this scorn for the literary arts, on the part of the aristocracy and commonfolk alike, had remained the hallmark of genuine nobility;†
Chpt 6.8scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Deep vertical furrows of contempt and ill humor formed between Hans Castorp's eyebrows, and from under those furrows he gazed at the returned traveler five times a day, happy at least to gaze at her, but filled with scorn for the exalted personage who had not the least notion what an odd light past events cast upon him.†
Chpt 7.3
- The defeat of feeling in the face of life, that is the inadequacy for which there is no pardon, no pity, no honor, but only merciless shame and scornful laughter—set-tled, young man, and spewed out again.†
Chpt 7.3scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- Herr Settembrini, however, ignored and scorned this bit of courtesy.†
Chpt 7.4scorned = disrespected or rejected
- But she keeps up her hot scorn, she imitates him, and pretends to lose her head at the sound of the trumpets.†
Chpt 7.7scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- Does not want to—for without a doubt, her rage, her scorn, is not just for the moment, not merely personal, it is hatred, an ancient hostility to the principle behind those French bugles—or Spanish horns—that call her beloved little soldier back; and her highest ambition, both instinctive and impersonal, is to triumph over that principle.†
Chpt 7.7
- Those idealistic powers of resistance to illness and death, whose defeat by the overwhelming forces of base nature so pained Herr Settembrini, were absolutely alien to litre Naphta; and his method for coping with the deterioration of his body was not sorrow and gloom, but scornful high spirits and an unparalleled aggressiveness, a mania for intellectual doubt, negation, and confusion, all of which severely aggravated the other man's melancholy and daily intensified their intellectual arguments.†
Chpt 7.9scornful = full of strong disrespect or rejection
- European Romanticism was above all a movement of liberation: both anticlassical and antiacademic, directed against outmoded classicism, the old school of reason, whose defenders it scorned as powdered periwigs.†
Chpt 7.9scorned = disrespected or rejected