Sentence examples for collective contempt from inspiring English sources
In a sermon that she attended on Tuesday at St. Paul's Cathedral, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, inveighed against "the traps of ludicrous financial greed, of environmental recklessness, of collective fear of strangers and collective contempt for the unsuccessful and marginal".
What has happened to feed our collective contempt and what can we do?
Boards and other leadership groups may be found in contempt of court although this form of collective contempt is typically punished by a fine and not imprisonment.
This just another reason why the New England Patriots and their coach Bill Belichick deserve every last dollop of our collective contempt.
They are also suffering in their collective soul; they feel there is contempt for the values and the institutions of the Republic, the social contract is under attack, the influence of the country is damaged and they watch with anger France being humbled, weakened, damaged, downgraded".» The reaction to the publication was muted.
One reason for Khrushchev's ousting was that he continuously overruled other party members, and was, according to the plotters, "in contempt of the party's collective ideals".
As if to rub our collective noses in it, bankers have paraded their contempt for both politicians and taxpayers by using bail-out resources to post massive capital gains and bonuses.
Trump, Putin and Erdogan share a contempt for international organizations, formalized rules and formalized systems of collective security.
** Casting contempt upon millions of Americans who have responded with aspersions of collective Muslim guilt, and scorn specially for their political leaders who have intensified what some have called a proto-fascist outbreak in America.
The two towns have been bitter rivals for centuries: as in practically all corners of Italy, familiarity breeds contempt, manifested in what is known as campanilismo, literally "belltower-ism", intense, chauvinistic pride in collective self, and equally pronounced loathing for the nearby other.
