Sentence examples for based on contempt from inspiring English sources
So I was familiar with the world of pornography, and I always found it distressing and based on contempt.
Could the administration argue, while trumpeting an American triumph under Mr. Obama's command, that it expects, through patience and great understanding, to win sudden moderation from interlocutors whose identity (and appeal) continues to be based on contempt for America's goals and its support of Israel?
And it's a term that's based on contempt, it's a term that's based in fashion style, elitism, Satanism, and everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.
King's assessment of segregation as one of "the ugly practices of our nation," his call that capitalism must be transformed by "a deep-seated change," and his depiction of colonialism as "evil because it is based on a contempt for life" were stricken from the text (Papers 6 480; 6 530; 6 530).
But China's success has been based on its consistent contempt for Western advice and it is not Chinese banks that are currently going bust.
Had the outburst been simply an unlovely piece of hypocrisy, based on a profound contempt for his fellow-men, it would have sounded much the same; and it would have sounded equally irreconcilable with liberalism as that word is generally understood.
His masterpiece, El desdén con el desdén ("Contempt with Contempt"), based on parts of four plays of Lope de Vega, is marked, as are all his best plays, by its elegance and faithfulness to real life.
Thus, we reverse the trial justice's finding of contempt based on the "duck and run" comment and vacate the related sanctions.
Godard's 1963 film Le Mépris (Contempt), based on a story by the Italian novelist Alberto Moravia, marked his only venture into orthodox and comparatively expensive filmmaking.
Presenting legitimate peer-reviewed scientific data to anti-vaxxers does not persuade them because they already reached a verdict based on their fears and contempt.
Or is it that one is not free because one is not content?" In "Contempt" (1964), based on Alberto Moravia's novel "A Ghost at Noon," Senecan serenity is pitted against the edginess of modern man, and Godard uses a documentary style that allows him the freedom to emphasize things that would pass one by in a movie with a traditional narrative.
