Sentence examples for an expression of contempt from inspiring English sources

Mr. Icahn characterized the poison-pill measure as an expression "of contempt for stockholders".

Trump's speech is littered with these phrases, every one an expression of contempt for his national audience.

The President's speech is littered with phrases that are an expression of contempt for his national audience.

Maybe his remarks weren't an expression of contempt for the media, but a rejection of a cynical game.

The movie is a kind of awed testimonial to the power of madness and an expression of contempt for sweet reason, which comes off as hapless.

A bloody knife wiped on a pair of pants in this story "could be an expression of contempt," according to Dr. Delaware.

The movement phrase, punctuated with an emphatic swirl, suddenly became an expression of haughty contempt.

As practiced by Williams, mere civility was more often an expression of mutual contempt than mutual admiration.

Or was it an expression of misdirected contempt for working-class, brown-skinned immigrants (hence, the 7-11 and motel owner jibes)?

Angry now, I attempted to say that I was in fact quite used to pain, that a childhood of lumbar punctures and sometimes agonising physical rehab had seen to that, but he surveyed me with an expression of utmost contempt.

Whether it was an expression of conscious contempt or only a bit of insensitive slang depended on context, and here is the context in which Schwarzenegger used it: Recently I posed for a gay magazine, which caused much comment.