Staff were contemptuous, refusing to give out the tiniest speck of information, until Fielding's nerves were shredded and he briefly lost his mind – and his passport, which was in his bag but which panic, fury and exhaustion lost for him.
The tough, contemptuous Kershaw refuses to sign and refuses to die even as his captors grow increasingly — and unintentionally, improvisationally — more barbarically brutal.
Labor has accused the Turnbull government of starting the new parliament in a "contemptuous way" by refusing to give the opposition a briefing on its proposed legislation dealing with the Victorian Country Fire Authority dispute.
Disability is contemptuous of your refusal.
The new man was also a Darwinian "realist" who was contemptuous of "delicate" souls who refused to employ harsh military or political measures when they were required.
The title of Corbett's book, "Orphans Preferred," was the phrase that reputedly appeared in newspaper ads seeking "young, skinny, wiry fellows, not over eighteen, willing to risk death daily". Only once did a Pony Express rider "dump the blanket," a contemptuous term for a coward who refused to ride in the face of danger and privation.
Members of the conservation science community may ridicule social scientists for romanticising the 'ecologically noble savage' untouched by western corruption; while at the same time, some social scientists are contemptuous of environmental scientists who, they believe, refuse to accept that people's activities are part of the natural ecology.
Refuse to pay, thus showing the world just how contemptuous it is of the rule of law — and decimating its already damaged investment climate?
Never has the avarice of the Republican party been more nakedly displayed than in the contemptuous disdain that Governors Haley Barbour and Bobby Jindal displayed in declaring that they will refuse to accept large portions of the unemployment package for fear that they would increase the employment tax paid by business.
He refuses to debate me, respond to me, or even campaign, so contemptuous is he of the democratic process and the need to actually earn the public's vote.
The main antagonist of the story, Emperor Velo XXVII, is the confident, dominating, bullying and contemptuous ruler of his own galaxy; he threatens to destroy Earth if Crash and Cortex's teams refuse to compete in his Galaxy Circuit.
