Sentence examples for contemptuous approach from inspiring English sources

This column has fought a long campaign, under both Conservative and Labour governments, against the almost contemptuous approach to manufacturing industry.

"Why does our president condone the swaggering and contemptuous approach to our friends and allies this administration is fostering, including among its most senior officials?

What is impressive about that book, and now its sequel The Twelve, is that there is nothing contemptuous about Cronin's approach; this is a formal exercise based on study and thought, but it has also a serious commitment to the virtues he has found in genre fiction – well-paced flurries of action and a deepened portrayal of the conventional emotions that too often become clichés.

The new crusaders in the White House and the Pentagon, of course, would be contemptuous of such a gradualist approach.

I have met many regional jazz players who appear cranky, unhappy and contemptuous of other musicians who approach jazz from a different angle.

Ramírez's antipathy for the Blanton, forged in the heat of her departure, has hardened into a contemptuous disapproval of Pérez-Barreiro's approach to the collection.

He's contemptuous of his own father's "non-confrontational" approach, and equates it with irresponsibility.

Mrs Miller has been condemned for making a "contemptuous" 32-second personal apology for her "legalistic" approach to the inquiry into her expenses on the floor of the House on Thursday.

It is a principled, creative approach, far more so than the often contemptuous way the state has chosen to respond to the court's reasonable efforts to get it to reduce overcrowding in its prisons.

There is a widespread feeling at the U.N. that the policies of the United States -- its invasion and occupation of Iraq, its approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its frequently contemptuous attitude toward the U.N. in particular and international cooperation in general -- have made the Middle East and parts of the rest of the world substantially more dangerous, rather than less.

In Mr. Toobin's tart opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy is given to a "judge-centered, almost messianic, approach to the law"; Justice Scalia has become increasingly belligerent and contemptuous of Congress and Justicee Stephen Breyer has become increasingly upset at writing dissent after dissent.