Sentence examples for being very contemptuous of from inspiring English sources

"I remember him at his eighty-fifth-birthday dinner being very contemptuous of those who came after him, a Grand Old Man who had had no succession plan and, like some grand intellectual figures, felt that no one was up to the job of succeeding him".

It's very contemptuous of the electorate".

Brantôme reported that the "magnificence was such in everything that the Spaniards who are very contemptuous of all others save their own swore that they had never seen anything finer".

Then the national attitude softened, I think, because the rest of the country was caught up in it too – until then it had been very contemptuous and scornful of Detroit".

He claimed that secular intellectuals were "very imperious dogmatists," contemptuous of the simple feelings of ordinary people, and as "cruel" in their "intolerance" as Catholic priests.

"Each is very brave and contemptuous of those who don't measure up".

This, said Mostyn, was "very wrong" and "a contemptuous disregard" of court rules limiting evidence to one "essential reading bundle".

John Osborne was very angry with the establishment, contemptuous of what you might call bourgeois values.

They're still the hidden communists inside the government, nakedly overtly contemptuous of our freedoms, and you have to be very creative in fighting them.

Like many people who assume that they are desired, Thelma is contemptuous of those who love her.

Here's a sample: Despite your contemptuous and condescending depiction of Occupy Wall St. as nothing more than 'soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchy'; many Americans consider the protests to be Very Good News.