Sentence examples for abject contempt from inspiring English sources
Her acting is also exceptional: I've never seen Tosca's abject contempt for Scarpia more witheringly portrayed.
But the fact that David Cameron selfishly chooses to attend anything ever shows how little he appreciates the financial sacrifices ordinary people make to go out and reveals the abject contempt in which he holds the electorate.
"Everyone who contradicted him," wrote one of Marx's contemporaries, "he treated with abject contempt; every argument that he did not like he answered either with biting scorn at the unfathomable ignorance that had prompted it, or with opprobrious aspersions upon the motives of him who had advanced it".
As someone who has read and reread, with a mixture of abject shame and contempt, dozens of letters from readers who noticed that I'd misidentified a church in a magazine article about Caravaggio, I hesitate to mention that when Hughes's book appeared in England some reviewers noted mistakes of fact and interpretation, particularly in the pages on antiquity.
The premonitory symptoms of despotism are upon us; and if Congress does not apply an instantaneous and effective remedy, the fatal collapse will soon come on, and we shall die -- ignobly die -- base, mean and abject slaves; the scorn and contempt of mankind; unpitied, unwept, unmourned!
The "contempt of community" and "contempt of cop" speak volumes about the abject failure of our contemporary justice system to deal with drugs and the illicit drug economy.
My "contempt" for David Brooks is grounded in his years of extreme war cheerleading and veneration of an elite political class that has produced little beyond abject failure and corruption.
Of all the abject illusions!
That was abject cowardice".
