So we reach this point that no travel book is supposed to reach, whereby the snake eats its tail: instead of breaking free into the wild he adores and does often find, Jacobs gives the lie to travel writing in this shrunken world conquered by mobile phones, contempt for nature and the plague of tourism.
These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.
For instance, Allen Wood writes: "it would show contempt for rational nature to be indifferent to its potentiality in children".
Because Wallander is constitutionally drawn to wind-swept beaches and empty roads where a man can disappear in the dense fog and driving rain, he has contempt for the banal nature scene that his father, "a 'kitsch' artist," paints for a living.
CK's background is decidedly different to most TV folk – spanning both arthouse film and television, and with experience in writing, editing and camerawork – and he has expressed contempt for the committee-driven nature of much television.
Within two years, she had spells of homelessness, punctuated by temporary jobs, none of which became permanent, because of her imperious nature, her contempt for owners and bosses.
Trump's contempt for the weak, his bullying nature, and lack of compassion and empathy form a worldview that Wehner believes is "incompatible with Christianity". .
His feeling for nature even at its harshest coincides with a contempt for human despoliation that can make his prose forbidding and sometimes frigid -- again, a virtuoso analogue for the icy land- and seascapes that are his subject.
The games ended up showing up what was fundamentally wrong with India, including corruption, a contempt for organizational planning and the cosmetic nature of Indian national pride.
Intellectuals, even (perhaps especially) those on the left, are aristocrats by nature: they have contempt for ordinary opinion and are impatient with technicalities and formalities.
Each and all of us, shrewd or stolid, traded upon the imbecilities of human nature and had contempt for it as a result.
