Sentence examples for a display of contempt from inspiring English sources

AS A display of contempt towards the sanctity of humanitarian assistance, a massacre, blamed on Sri Lankan soldiers, of 17 locally hired aid workers last summer takes some beating.

In 2002, answering a question from a staffer about a mission statement, Morrison, in a display of contempt for corporate bureaucracy, drew a raised middle finger on a piece of paper and said, "Here's your mission statement".

Three of the panellists were also united in condemning Richard Dawkins for his suggestion that it was time to confront believers with a display of "naked contempt".

So, far from being a display of unvarying contempt, this is one of the saddest, most piercing portraits of maternal love I have read, which spreads the painful ambivalences of family life out for all to see.

By contrast, Ralph Fiennes's character in "The English Patient," Count Almasy, teases the death wish out of drunkenness, ostentatiously committing social suicide at a party, while choosing to imitate someone he loathes (a worshiper of Hitler) to justify a display of extravagant contempt.

In a tremendous display of contempt for the European leaders he once courted, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych ordered police to destroy the protest camp during the visit of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, and shortly after she had left the camp.

In his Express column, "Osborne has lost all credibility with his budget threat", Leo McKinstry accused the chancellor of "gross irresponsibility" with "a desperate act of political intimidation" and "an astonishing display of contempt for our national interests".

If true, this constitutes an astounding display of contempt for the voices now being raised in concern from coast to coast on this issue.

To this, there was an amazing display of contempt, not only for gang members and violence, but in some instances towards Hispanics, especially by those from other ethnic backgrounds.

To jettison waste with no regard to surroundings seems like an ultimate display of contempt for society to me; it's the action of someone who has no regard for the human race at all.

The ending, a haughty farewell to life, is also a grandly derisive display of contempt — Verdoux's, for a world that failed to honor his rare virtues, and Chaplin's, for a world that let itself be seduced by a Verdoux.