Sagan himself, in the early episodes, seems to deliver his lines in a contemptuous drawl, not unlike the Matrix's Agent Smith.
Both within the article and between the lines there were contemptuous lies… I met my lawyers in Hong Kong and clearly expressed my position.
During the fuel blockades two years ago, Brown was contemptuous when Blair adopted a more appeasing line towards the protesters, while Blair blamed Brown for not foreseeing the consequences of his increases in petrol duty.
This line of thought is degrading and contemptuous; the implication is that women cannot think for themselves.
However, in line with Friedman's experience, the contemptuous vitriol directed at us seems to have more to do with our female voices and "feminine" vocal patterns, than the thoughts and opinions we express with said voices.
For Iago's contemptuous "Ecco il leone" ("Behold the lion"), the curtain line of Act III, he commanded the snarling trill Verdi asks for.
One line in the letter, perhaps typed without rancor, rings now as contemptuous given the hostility that built between the men.
When the Black and Tans storm into the yard of a Republican family, they line the young men up against a wall; the English soldiers are contemptuous of the Irish — they think they know these people, these troublemakers, and they treat them with coarse intimacy.
Dozens of Google's opponents lined up to damn the internet pioneer as monopolistic, rapacious, and contemptuous of laws that protect copyright and protect consumers from dominant corporations.
McCloskey is contemptuous of scientists like Steven Pinker for trying to explain the origins of virtue along Darwinian lines; yet her dogmatic counterclaim — "Every human is born in sin, and must seek redemption" — doesn't greatly advance the argument.
