Sentence examples for called contempt from inspiring English sources

Her vigilance, in which there was something that couldn't quite be called contempt.

"Comcast Is Watching Us," declared a blog called Contempt for the World in February, when Mr. Eliason started wading into the comment sections of blogs.

He called contempt "the first step," to be followed by "other tools" if the Justice Department did not produce the documents requested.

They have written a book about the lynching of Mr. Johnson called "Contempt of Court," which has brought the case into this city's consciousness again and spurred Friday's court action.

"The shed was influenced by Casa Malaparte in Capri," Martino says, "which I first saw in a movie with Brigitte Bardot and Jack Palance called 'Contempt.' I was watching the movie on late-night TV 25 years ago, and when the house appeared, I jumped off the couch and jumped to the TV to get a closer look".

Though Miller does call his childhood "glorious" in "Big Sur" (and spares the occasional kind word for Brooklyn elsewhere), he situates his formative years in "that squalid section of Brooklyn known as Williamsburg," adding, with what I think can fairly be called contempt, "I try to relate those squalid streets and shabby houses to the vast expanse of sea and mountains of this region".

WASHINGTON ― Arrests for disorderly conduct ― what critics call "contempt of cop" because police officers use it to arrest those who disrespect them ― have plummeted in recent years, according to new data released by the FBI on Monday.

WASHINGTON ― Arrests for disorderly conduct ― what critics call "contempt of cop" because police officers use it to arrest those who disrespect them ― have plummeted in recent years, according to new data released by the FBI on Monday.

One of our colleagues in the relationship counseling field, John Gottman, calls contempt one of the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, behaviors that signal doom for a relationship (along with criticism, defensiveness and sulking).

Judge Rakoff called the contempt power - a judge's ability to punish a party for disobeying a court order - "the backbone of the judiciary".

The riots that broke out here in January were provoked partly by police harassment of the men making their living selling in the street — what one shoe seller, Amar Laksas, called, "injustice, contempt, no work".