Its patient but determined use of military power in Afghanistan, and threat of it in Iraq, has created more fears of its strength than contempt for its weakness.
Though that rating imposes some constraints, the director's contempt for subtlety, weakness for cliché and perennial determination to wring every last drop of emotion out of a situation are inevitably factors here.
PHOTOS: Summer Sneaks 2013 Daniels demonstrates "contempt for subtlety, weakness for cliché and perennial determination to wring every last drop of emotion out of a situation," but he also has an "ability to create believable black middle-class situations that are so hard to come by on mainstream screens".
This is a theme that emerges in Wish 143 – David has contempt for his own weakness.
Driver's almost unreadably droll facial expression is very suited to Kylo Ren's fastidious and amused contempt for his enemies' weakness and compassion.
"What with his flair for introspection, his gift for ribald parody, his excoriating candor, his contempt for 'phoniness,' his weakness for soliloquy and his desperate conviction that the time is out of joint, Jimmy Porter is the completest young pup in our literature since 'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,' " the theater critic Kenneth Tynan wrote in The Observer in 1956.
As a young man March fought in Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and on Djorba under Alfonso V. March's verse describes the conflict between his sensuality and his passionate idealism, expressing an anguished contempt for the flesh and for his own weakness and that of his mistress, Teresa Bou, in yielding to it.
They mistake this for weakness.
They take kindness for weakness.
Used for weakness potions.
