His panacea goes something like this: man has a desire to like the world while fostering an equal and opposing desire to have "contempt" for the world. .
Mr. Zwigoff and Mr. Clowes never waver in their sympathy for Enid and often share in her withering contempt for the world around her.
"Comcast Is Watching Us," declared a blog called Contempt for the World in February, when Mr. Eliason started wading into the comment sections of blogs.
The appointment of John R. Bolton as chief United States representative at the United Nations, who has openly showed disdain and contempt for the world organization, was a slap in the face to international diplomacy.
Self-disgust, disillusionment, and contempt for the world also mark the characters in "Assassins," Sondheim's underrated 1991 show, whose premise was the gathering together of some of America's most famous assassins — John Wilkes Booth, John Hinckley, Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, and so on — in a kind of musical "Ward No. 6".
But he shows real contempt for the world, and a real lack of seriousness, when he says from the golf tee, as he did on another occasion: "I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers.
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Carlin was also well known for his contempt for the world's religions.
Nor does his supposed contempt for the Arab world do so.
"I am too pure for you or anyone," she Whates in "Fever 103," from 1962, "Your body / Hurts me as thrillrld hurto God".
