Cameron gave a combative defence of his deal, but then he devoted the final two minutes or so of his statement to what every MP in the chamber will have recognised as a withering, uncompromising and near-contemptuous attack on Boris Johnson.
Through all these years Wordsworth was assailed by vicious and tireless critical attacks by contemptuous reviewers; no great poet has ever had to endure worse.
The charge sheet went on and culminated in an attack on the contemptuous attitude of that significant minority of officers: "It is the same attitude exposed by HMIC when officers, called to help a woman who had suffered domestic violence accidentally recorded themselves calling the victim a 'slag' and a 'bitch'bitch
To further reinforce their contempt for anything other than their own power, Republicans have pursued the contemptuous myth of voter fraud, attacked the margins in elections they do lose (and win, apparently) and promoted narratives that delegitimize Democratic-run government.
But Wang's contemptuous tone grated, especially when he attacked the literature professor turned human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo.
Northern Alliance leaders are contemptuous of Pakistan for supporting the Taliban before the Sept. 11 attacks.
The press freedom watchdog denounces the "little presidents" who publicly attack journalists and media outlets, arguing that journalists treated in a contemptuous, insulting, defamatory or racist manner are put under "terrible pressure... just for doing their job".
When I told my mother (I was twelve years old and having panic attacks) she shook her head, perplexed, but also, I think, contemptuous: Catholicism was not something you felt, it was something you did.
He is unsparing in his attack on the complacencies of the suburban upper-middle class, but to describe his attitude as cruel or contemptuous is to miss the compassion and the almost rabbinical ethical seriousness that drives his inquiries.
Their contemptuous back-and-forth suggests a pair of snarling alpha dogs circling each other, trying to locate the best angle for attack.
