Sentence examples for contempt for society from inspiring English sources

But having been attracted by that insouciant contempt for society's rules, how could he -- we -- have been so astonished to learn, at last, that a lot of rules had been broken?

To jettison waste with no regard to surroundings seems like an ultimate display of contempt for society to me; it's the action of someone who has no regard for the human race at all.

Raskolnikov's disgust and horror is central to the theme of his conflicted character, his guilty conscience, his contempt for society, his rationality of himself as an extraordinary man above greater society, holding authority to kill, and his concept of justified murder.

He is not modernist in his technique but in his grisly contempt for bourgeois society.

Yet the military rulers have done just that, demonstrating contempt for civil society and an old ally.

One newspaper columnist has called the eagles "a symbol of a quango's PR exercise and contempt for human society".

Is there some basic contempt for British society in the character of News International that stems from Rupert Murdoch's personal disdain?

Indeed, the mud-smeared men of San Luis spoke with contempt for a society they say cares more about the butterflies than about their families.

Contemporary rural Ireland is once again portrayed as a site of venality, inbreeding and violence, but the production's contempt for the society it describes is so overwhelming that it becomes an assault on the sensibilities.

More than anything, Civil Exchange demonstrates the coalition's sheer contempt for civil society, right from the start: billions of pounds cut from charity grants (small, local charities losing most); restrictions against civil society's right to challenge policy through the courts, and the voluntary sector's ability to speak out on behalf of the people it works with.

He "felt" football as acutely as anyone, and many found his sporadic crankiness an integral part of his overall charm, like an endearing, eccentric uncle predisposed to unprompted expressions of contempt for modern society from behind an impenetrable fug of pipe smoke.