Not coincidentally, failure was one of Jake’s biggest fears. Though he was not prone to boastfulness, the fact was he had never really failed at anything. It was a lot to handle, but Jake - the likable, hard-working oldest sibling in a suburban North Carolina family - was the kind of teenager who handled things. It happened early in his junior year of high school, while he was taking three Advanced Placement classes, running on his school’s cross-country team and traveling to Model United Nations conferences. Your other observations I scorn and disgust, and I must pollish you off.The disintegration of Jake’s life took him by surprise. Shakespeare who scorn the theatre and arrogate to themselves in the library, often with some justification, a greater capacity for apprehending and appreciating Shakespeare than is at the command of the ordinary playgoer or actor. Gilder, donning his rubber coat, a garment that Plater would have scorned to wear, left the clearing through another bushy thicket on the opposite side from that by which his confederate had entered it. The chevalier was offered half the wager, but he laughed them to scorn. Miss Eliza, Scorn, and Chaos were sitting in the kitchen, trying to look as if they were waiting for something interesting to happen and not as if they were doing as Morwen had told them. He glared at her insultingly and, torn by that great passion that comes from devotion misprized and sacrifice rewarded with scorn, she leapt up to hurl back the truth. What tremendous self-reliance and disdain must form the basis of a female character, which accepted misapprehension and depreciation with an indifference so genuine as to scorn even the trifling exertion of disclosing its powers. Spoiled outrageously, Morgan, who had inherited the reckless Markland courage, all the arrogance and belligerence of the clan, had early demonstrated brash young scorn for many of the principles of honor, trustworthiness, generosity and forbearance that went with it.
When it was clear that Elgar had disregarded his promise, and, for whatever reason, did not even seek to justify or excuse himself, there came upon Mallard a strong mood of scorn, which for some hours enabled him to act as though all his anxiety were at an end.īelieve this and it surely follows, as concave implies convex, that by daily converse and association with these great ones we take their breeding, their manners, earn their magnanimity, make ours their gifts of courtesy, unselfishness, mansuetude, high seated pride, scorn of pettiness, wholesome plentiful jovial laughter. In his mind he was seeing Burra, sneering his scorn at a man who let a woman rule him. I was listening to the philosophical discourses of the Bonze, every word of which I heard and understood, and was trying to laugh him to scorn. Scorned by the One God of whose son he was begotten, Elua trod with bare feet on the bosom of his mother Earth and wandered singing, and where he went, flowers bloomed in his footprints.īefore three short months had passed, Sergeant Campbell and Miss Bloomer observed more than once the finger of scorn pointed at them. It was typical of the Antler Kindred to react with fear, Katara thought with scorn. Syn: Contempt disdain derision contumely despite slight To laugh to scorn, to deride to make a mock of to ``He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai To think scorn, to regard as worthy of scorn or contempt Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scornĪnd a derision to them that are round about us. Scorn at first makes after love the more.Īn act or expression of extreme contempt.īut fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.Īn object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision. escorner toĮxtreme and lofty contempt haughty disregard thatĭisdain which springs from the opinion of the utter scorn, scarn, scharn, OF.Įscarn, escharn, eschar, of German origin cf.