Sentence examples for contemptuous speech from inspiring English sources

She feels that the English have a contemptuous speech intonation, and that their extreme politeness is overdone.

Mr Glaziev's contemptuous speech in Yalta (he accused Ukrainian officials of not even reading the association agreement they were signing) prompted an ironic comment from Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian trade minister and chocolate maker, whose sweet wares were hit by Russian sanctions.

And in the House of Commons, a committee has listened to a parade of witnesses denounce the current law as perverse, unfair, prohibitively expensive, contemptuous of free speech and an anachronism in an age when access to articles on foreign Web sites can be obtained anywhere.

This was a contemptuous play on words.

As Amy Davidson indicates in her fine parsing of the dodges, distortions, and deceptions in the speech, Obama was outright contemptuous of those of us who believe that there is ground for serious debate about his current action.

And so the principle of free speech confronted American society's unwritten code of restraint on contemptuous stereotyping.

Harry, violent and contemptuous, is singular not so much because of his feelings, as because his feelings become speech and action.

As you try to work on the speech you have put off writing, you remember that, once upon a time, you were contemptuous of awards.

Earlier, Nehru and his father had been contemptuous of the run of contemporary Indian politicians, whose nationalism, with a few notable exceptions, consisted of interminable speeches and long-winded resolutions.

But contemptuous?

His response was borderline contemptuous.