The motion for contempt was directed to Defendant.
At one point, Justice Wetzel threatened to hold Mr. Callan in contempt and he directed an armed court officer to stand behind the lawyer.
Kael was neither a pessimist nor a snob: to the end of her days she was immune to the gloomy nostalgia for bygone golden ages that afflicts so many critics, and she was allergic to the condescension and contempt so often directed at the popular arts.
He asked, sarcastically, whether Western allies planned to fire missiles at all the world's "crooked regimes," and directed special contempt to world leaders who have approved attacks on Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
The contempt these mystery readers feel directed at them gets recycled as they express withering disdain for books they don't like written and read by people they have to denigrate.
Bonnie Greer alone, unelected and hence beyond contamination, sat next to Griffin, though with her elbow nearest to him planted firmly on the desk throughout, one shoulder directed in sniffy contempt.
Such emotions as love, hatred, contempt and pity, which are directed outwards, towards other people or things, appear not to be self-referential at first, but in an indirect way they are.
It's a contempt that's most often directed at Black Americans, who are derided as irresponsible, violent, scary, and worse.
He said further that the threat to deport Mr. Arafat, made by the Israeli cabinet, was "in blatant contempt and direct challenge of the whole international community, but with the support and protection of the superpower".
