Sentence examples for bitterness and contempt from inspiring English sources

As the sarcastic, self-lacerating Bill begins his new job, his bitterness and contempt leak out in every direction.

Robin Denselow JoJo Marvin's Room (Can't Do Better) A killer opening line – "I've been up three days: Adderall and Red Bull" – then blankly intoned relationship fallout through a self-medicated fug, bitterness and contempt framed by drugs and booze.

With self-flaying candor Cheever had recorded day after day, beginning in 1939, a sorry story of incest with his beloved brother, Fred; of pain and bitterness and contempt for his wife; of relentless sexual predation.

In the late 1990s he turned into one of America's leading critics of soaring executive pay, warning that "in the next economic downturn, there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the super-corporate chieftains who pay themselves millions".The second argument had to do with the rise of knowledge workers.

He even turned down the chance of becoming vice-chancellor of Oxford University on the grounds that he was not an "educationalist"—a word that he pronounced with such bitterness and contempt that it struck fear into some of his academic colleagues.Berlin's personal genius was as evident in public service as it was in the lecture room.

Reminding us that prosperity does not last forever, he warns: "In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the super-corporate chieftains who pay themselves millions.

We only have received misunderstanding and contempt.

In architecture, ugliness and contempt are synonyms.

Acts of hate, greed and contempt.

Defamation and contempt laws threaten dissent.

Such rage and contempt was startling.