Sentence examples for driven by contempt from inspiring English sources

He said he aimed for a middle ground between writers he described as "avant-garde... writing just for other writers" and those who produced "crass cynical commercial fiction", believing that both were driven by "contempt for their audience".

Extreme violence reported towards transvestites and Roma was generally interpreted as driven by contempt for being of minority or deviant status (box 3, extract 3).

Back then, Euroscepticism was driven by a contempt for the bureaucracy that determined our bananas were not straight enough or our ice-cream not creamy enough.

The movie is based on John le Carré's 2008 novel, and it's driven by his contempt for the crudity of American intelligence methods in the Bush-Cheney era.

"One of these myths was that only white girls are victims of sexual exploitation by Asian or Muslim males as these men only abuse outside of their own community, driven by hatred and contempt for white females.

In 1953, driven by jealousy and contempt for Dior's vision of the ideal woman, Chanel returned with her first couture collection, and slowly regained her hold on Parisian consciousness.

"Marikana is at the centre of a rage driven by exclusion and the contempt that such exclusion brings," says South African film-maker Rehad Desai, who has made a documentary exposing the official version of the Marikana massacre as lies.

Every ill-considered move made by the Sanders campaign was driven by the self-described Democratic socialist who ran for the presidential nomination of a party he holds in contempt.

Talent centers are often held in contempt by the rest of the region, where leaders often enact laws simply to stifle differences, driven by xenophobia, misogyny, homophobia, and racism.

At a time when American politicians are regularly accused of following the polls or kowtowing to self-interested factions instead of taking stands driven by their own beliefs — if indeed they can be proven to have any — Dr. Stockmann's unbending morals and his contempt for the unthinking majority can seem both radical and invigorating.

Driven by his desire to solve a great puzzle, he is personally affronted by recycled information and secondary sourcing, which often leads him to express contempt for people who are lazier than he is — a category that includes virtually everyone.