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As I was typing in some key ideas and quotes from Jane Jacobs' The Coming Dark Age, I noted that one of my very favorite contained the word scorned. I love that word. Maybe that's why I love the quote. Thus, here are two of my very favorite quotes with the word scorned:

Hospitals, transit systems, and orchestras are scorned as free-loaders seeking handouts if they can't directly pay their way or, better yet, make a profit either for tax collectors or for a corporate partner. Greed becomes culturally admired as competence, and false or unrealistic promises as cleverness.(114)

and one of my favorite sentences ever, from Robert Ray's The Avant-Garde Finds Andy Hardy:

Having two young daughters, who announced their resentment at my attending a conference during Easter (known in our house as a presents holiday, as opposed to a scorned food holiday like Thanksgiving, in which they have no interest), and reminded that I had also missed Halloween (for another conference), I went for a walk to redeem myself, to buy them presents (90).

Scorned. The word for the week.

Posted by briley at May 20, 2005 8:45 AM