All 32 Uses of

scorn

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The Sunlight Dialogues

The bearded one said now, scornfully, as if set off by something the Indian had said, "Pain!†
Chpt 2

It was she, Millie, who had first called him "Father," with a flip and yet heart-crushing scorn whose power over him he could not understand but secretly believed, without evidence, to be justified.†
Chpt 3

And their sister Ruth, inheritor of the Old Man's gift for organizing, had run away with a teletypist, a union organizer as full of rage as an iron stove: who had baited them all, in his younger days, scorned all their Upstate Republican opinions, knew curious facts and doubtful figures, could cut like a knife--a man no more willing than a knife to hear reason and who felt no need to, omniscient as God--but grew older, for all he could do to prevent it (for all his two-hundred-dollar…†
Chpt 3

The whole garage, in fact, showed Ben's fine hand--as though working those summers for his Uncle Ben, Luke Hodge had learned to scorn all his sober, potching father represented, had turned with sudden violence on his father's deliberate, painstaking life of ugly, neat repair: repainted banisters, plugged up holes, jacked up floors, wired up chairs, new lintels for sagging doorways.†
Chpt 4

Kozlowski, for one, was mildly scornful of, and mildly amused by, the uniform he wore.†
Chpt 5 *

And yet he was lying to himself, he knew; they did not scorn him but merely passed by, oblivious even to the fact that he scorned them.†
Chpt 5

And yet he was lying to himself, he knew; they did not scorn him but merely passed by, oblivious even to the fact that he scorned them.†
Chpt 5

"Esther," he said, "my dear, dear Esther," and she understood that it was even harder for him than for her: they must live out their lives like two people in a dungeon, and for her the dungeon was blindness, and she could rail against it and hate it and scorn it and eventually learn to tolerate it, but for him the dungeon was his wife.†
Chpt 6

He had drawn back into his mind, and when she beat him with her fists, ludicrously futile, he had endured her violence with scorn.†
Chpt 7

Almost casually he seized the few trifling Kleppmann stocks or accounts he could locate--here fifty dollars, there seventy--stocks and accounts left, as if with malicious scorn, to mock him.†
Chpt 8

He could almost remember, in fact, that someone had seen him--that he had felt eyes watching him critically, perhaps amused or scornful.†
Chpt 9

This much: if religion is scorned in America--and everywhere else in the modern world--it's because nobody understands its terms any more, nobody can penetrate the distinction between religion and mere theology.†
Chpt 11

People look at it now, with their incredible modern arrogance, and they ask precisely the wrong questions, look precisely in the wrong direction, and when astrology gives them no answers they scorn it, mock it for childish superstition, and, worst of all, foist it off on the stupidest people in the culture, the devout of the drugstores-old ladies, gamblers, uneducated halfwit housewives thirsting for adventure.†
Chpt 11

He had smiled with vast and weary scorn, then had raised himself, slow and ponderous as an elephant waking from a dream of swamps, and had shuffled out of the room.†
Chpt 12

But the Congressman was gone and would not return, she understood, would lie in his coffin with that same weary scorn, and she would be, as she had always been, on her own.†
Chpt 12

…like Clumly, and knowing in his numbed and prickling skin the indifference of Miller and the other policemen to whom he was merely the apartment owner, a clumsy obstruction to be walked around--but, worst of all, the shocking indifference, even scorn, yes, of his own brother, Tag, who had walked out quietly into the night, fallen angel once loved, leaving propped against the wall the horrible corpse of a woman who if she wasn't a friend was anyway someone Will Hodge had known--Will…†
Chpt 13

…knowing Paxton no more in the wrong than Taggert but undaunted by that because Taggert was his brother, and not even Millie's predictable conviction that she'd forced him to go there could keep him from it (she'd be wrong, clear as it might seem to her; her scorn at his failure to go earlier had not driven him to it but had merely made it occur to him for the first time that he could go) and had stood in old Paxton's office like a boulder, jaw slung forward, thumbs in his suspenders.†
Chpt 13

R. V. Kleppmann looked at the mews, and his expression of mournful patience and scorn did not change.†
Chpt 14

" ("Love," she'd scornfully echoed, he remembered, meaning "What is love?"†
Chpt 18

It was a question people were always asking nowadays, scornfully--at the cafeteria where he ate with Sol and Hawes and the others, in the tiresome art films, at parties.†
Chpt 18

Even now that he had fled them, Luke's scornful laughter rang in his ears.†
Chpt 21

But Luke's scorn was real, and hurt her, and the callouses he'd carefully grown to wall off his nerves from other people's pain were torn away to the roots by her words; the image he thought he had sealed off--an image now familiar and tiresome, infuriating as a tubercular's cough, yet no less dreadful for his having endured it a thousand times, awake and asleep--the image of fire, leapt up again in his mind or, as it seemed, in the corners of the room: turning quickly, with a sudden…†
Chpt 21

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