What matters is the contempt shown for death and limits and our own peace with ceding the world to those who come after us.
After that encounter, Wiman has only contempt for Stevens's formula "Death is the mother of beauty": this is too complacent, he writes, the sentiment of a man for whom death is not a prospect but a theme.
The penal code was changed to include femicide – defined as any crime that involves domestic violence, discrimination or contempt for women, which results in their death.
The new legislation amends Brazil's Penal Code to redefine "femicide" as any crime that involves domestic violence, discrimination or contempt for women, which results in their death.
James Taranto wrote that the applause was "less sanguinary than defiant"—they were expressing contempt for "the liberal elite" that opposes the death penalty.
All of Shakespeare feels like lead on my chest, Not for death, let's face it, death awaits us, Usually with less prescient language, But death measures us with a noun's contempt For our imagination, being death But not dying, making do, like when I Turn from the Bard, look outside and behold A herd of a hundred elk, surviving The snow as they know how being elk.
Stiffening joints, weakening muscles, fading eyesight and the clouding of memory, coupled with the modern world's careless contempt for the old, seem a fearful prospect better than death, perhaps, but not much.
Deuteronomy 17:12 (New International Version) explicitly calls for the death of anyone who shows contempt for priests.
But I have even greater contempt for those who take pleasure in these murders and deaths," he wrote in a Facebook post.
