Sentence examples for contempt you from inspiring English sources

It's a delight when they look at you with contempt — You idiot — and then walk you through the idea maze and explain why your idea won't work".

If you convey that you really hold them in contempt, you can tell them that the sun is shining and they won't listen to you.

"I've never taken industrial action before, but the government seems so intent on showing utter contempt you do stop and wonder what they'll come back for next year.

When Haneke delivered "Funny Games," it stirred fear and loathing in some viewers; the contempt, you might say, was mutual, and it seems odd for the director to revisit the scene of the crime — there is something jejune, even juvenile, about the snarl and arrogance of its conceit, even though he was already in his mid-fifties when he made the film.

(One of his characters comments, with contempt, "You artists... can't look at a landscape or a bowl of fruit without thinking how you will put it on a canvas so that somebody else will see it as your landscape or your bowl of fruit. That is the inescapable vulgarity of art. [Charley] used his pen to try to see God. When he had seen him, his papers were no more use than autumn leaves").

Sometimes, when it was too much to bear, I raised my head, saying to myself with contempt, "You can all go to hell.

But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

"It's a delight when they look at you with contempt -- You idiot -- and then walk you through the idea maze and explain why your idea won't work," he said in a new profile by The New Yorker.

"There are times when you know what's feeding the monkey is back here and down," he gestures past his pony tail down the back of his neck, "where there's a person who's probably you – but there's no proof of that – a person who knows more than you, who's got a very black sense of humour and a real sense of contempt for you, and you want him to speak".

If she shows contempt for you and treats you disrespectfully, you must speak up and let her know what impact her behavior is having on you.

If she shows contempt for you and treats you disrespectfully, you must speak up and let her know what impact her behavior is having on you, and your feelings for her.