Sentence examples for amount of contempt from inspiring English sources
I was expecting apathy and possibly contempt but he expressed intrigue and, yes, a small amount of contempt.
You might expect Mr. Stevens to have a certain amount of contempt for Google, given that he spends his professional life finding ways to subvert it.
Considering they're making music of black origin and subsequently raking it in by doing so, many show an unbelievable amount of contempt for the issues faced by those they emulate.
Seattle-based Intellectual Ventures has long been viewed with no small amount of contempt (and a large amount of fear) by Silicon Valley's investment class, because of its reputation as a patent hole — a gaping maw in the Northwest corner of the U.S. where patents go to die and be reborn as fodder for litigation.
But concealing his returns shows a certain amount of contempt for the ordinary vetting process of a presidential campaign; since the 1970s, no major party nominee has declined to release his tax returns what makes Trump so special?
Essentially everything Nana writes is injected with a fair amount of contempt, which is a mood I – a low human Pomeranian dog who gets a warm face whenever I see that a product I regularly buy has changed its packaging – admire and could do with more of in my own life.
Because while "Sunny" contained a formidable amount of cursing, contempt for women and, of course, vomit, it's that final scene in "Blue" that really gives you the heebie-jeebies.
For it is, of course, one of the great cruelties of political theatre that its hard-hitting messages generally bounce off audiences who pride themselves on an ability to tolerate any amount of savage contempt for their bourgeois complacency and still enjoy a glass of white in the interval.
He warned that any attempt by the government to prevent his return would amount to contempt of court.
The messages did not amount to contempt of court because the hearing had concluded and she was not aware either had committed an offence, she said.
The government said it would amount to contempt of Widgery's court-like forum, or at the least be seriously prejudicial, if the media were to present and discuss evidence pertaining to the shootings.
