Sentence examples for displays of contempt from inspiring English sources

Such outrageous displays of contempt for women cannot be allowed to persist in the new Egypt.

For the past three weeks, their media mentions have soared thanks to the Coalition and Labor trying to outdo each other with public displays of contempt for the party.

In a sense, she succeeded in transforming the hearings into the kind of political theater that better-known dissidents like Abby Hoffman had made famous in the 60's, with her attempts at clownish humor and her displays of contempt for the process.

Instead, there are usually smirks, sneers, pouts, leers and thin-lipped, tough-as-nails displays of contempt for anyone who would dare mess with her.

Having recently expelled a senior US diplomat for having met with members of the opposition, this move is the latest display of contempt for international opinion from Bahrain.

AS A display of contempt towards the sanctity of humanitarian assistance, a massacre, blamed on Sri Lankan soldiers, of 17 locally hired aid workers last summer takes some beating.

Reassuringly, it's not just those on the left who are furious with Osborne's latest display of contempt for the ordinary British taxpayer.

In a tremendous display of contempt for the European leaders he once courted, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych ordered police to destroy the protest camp during the visit of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, and shortly after she had left the camp.

In his Express column, "Osborne has lost all credibility with his budget threat", Leo McKinstry accused the chancellor of "gross irresponsibility" with "a desperate act of political intimidation" and "an astonishing display of contempt for our national interests".

The ending, a haughty farewell to life, is also a grandly derisive display of contempt — Verdoux's, for a world that failed to honor his rare virtues, and Chaplin's, for a world that let itself be seduced by a Verdoux.

This is an unusual, even refreshing display of contempt for the lingua franca of the modern world, as almost every other tyrant from Muammar Gaddafi to Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan has revealed his cultural insecurity by having his words rendered into the language of the Great (and little) Satan.