Thousands of Italians throng his rallies to sop up his contempt for the status quo.
In a country where the privileges of the bureaucratic class are a long-simmering source of resentment, that and his manic drive to reform Osaka — and, eventually, Japan — make him the kind of politician Japanese people are supposed to hate but secretly long for: a populist rabble-rouser who oozes contempt for the status quo.
Most of the world is ruled by dinosaur bureaucrats; but as software eats the world, Valley misfits and iconoclasts, armed with razor-edge tech and contempt for the status quo, overthrow those antediluvian empires and build better ones, which light the path to a brighter tomorrow for us all….
In an era where dissent is not so much actively stifled as passively marginalized and ignored, pervasive contempt for the status quo among people who have the intellectual tools and capacity to incite real change is one of the most hopeful things around; and for all its multitudinous flaws, DEF CON is home to many such people.
It is not some homespun, protectionist conservatism that makes 48-year-old Gove support Brexit, friends say; rather, it is an innate radicalism, frustration at the status quo and contempt for the "managerialist" tendency in British politics, causing governments to bumble along without asking fundamental questions about the world they inhabit.
Extreme violence reported towards transvestites and Roma was generally interpreted as driven by contempt for being of minority or deviant status (box 3, extract 3).
Yet nostalgia is no reason to maintain a status quo that shows such contempt for cricket's emerging nations.
As a black woman, it would be easy for me to feel contempt for white men and be envious of their status and success.
It champions pragmatism without pandering to the status quo, and conveys skepticism, even contempt, for Washington's ordinary way of doing business.
He possessed a restless intelligence and an impatience with a corrupted racial status quo and something bordering on contempt for those who had brokered or tolerated such a bad deal in the first place.
O'Neillrough the unattainable does man achieve a hope worth living and dying for—and so attain himself".
