But you'd have to be pretty obtuse not to notice the difference in intent, the difference between awkwardness and haplessness on the one hand, malice and contempt on the other.
In it, Mr. Gore explains why, for him, God and environmentalism are inextricably linked: "How can one glorify the Creator while heaping contempt on creation?
The mutual contempt on display was unquestionable.
"There's an element of contempt" on Naipaul's part, she said.
The ignorance of politicians in matters financial is a source of constant contempt on the Street.
"She can turn from adoration to contempt on the spot, and that's essential.
Like Bob Dole in 1996, Romney showers his contempt on the teachers' unions.
Scientists have heaped contempt on the Swiss author and repudiated virtually every claim he has made.
A CRITIC AT LARGE about prosecuting attorney Christopher Darden's new book "In Contempt" on the O. J. Simpson trial.
Haley has cast the weaponized contempt on display in Charleston last summer as a relic of a bitter past.
He heaped contempt on critics, who regarded his actions as almost a caricature of a megalomaniac chief executive.
