The Quigleys became the target of scorn and ridicule. It involves negative mood states such as subjective distress, fear, disgust, scorn, and hostility. Thereby they were made a prey to the scorn and hatred of their fellow citizens. It polarized audiences and critics with some showering praise, others scorn. It is afire with scorn, anger, hate, revenge, triumph. The latter path was championed by Slavophiles, who heaped scorn on the "decadent" West. Rebecca Chalker notes that this book was largely met with scorn, skepticism and disbelief. Their situation was cause for pride and for scorn, for celebration and humiliation. From the start, they were objects of Roman fascination, scorn and religious awe. A fierce competitor, Bryant made opponents and teammates alike the objects of his scorn. I scorn any notion of their permanence. Marthas, Wives and Econowives perceive Handmaids as promiscuous and are taught to scorn them. Torshin laid the blame squarely at Andreyev, for whom he reserved special scorn. Candlestick was an object of scorn from baseball purists for reasons other than weather. Rothbard said that libertarians should scorn rather than celebrate Friedman's academic prestige and political influence.