Sentence examples for evident contempt from inspiring English sources

For all her evident contempt of others, this Hedda obviously, desperately wants to be thought well of.

She began to treat the people closest to her with evident contempt, most of all Geoffrey Howe who received a bollocking in cabinet that no schoolteacher would be allowed to administer today.

The Americans and Afghans on the patrol didn't seem to be working together very well, with plenty of suspicion and maybe even a little contempt evident on both sides.

That contempt was evident in Senator Dorgan's comments on the Masters report on Wednesday: "This report is another example of how oil speculators can control the market while the federal agency, which should be protecting American consumers, has been dead from the neck up".

Also evident is the Anglo-Saxons' contempt for spectacular gestures à la française.

The former army chief's contempt for proceedings was evident in a written denial that sarcastically claimed his "hattrick" of appearances before the court was "an honour".

And a tone of sarcastic contempt for the authorities is evident in many of their postings, despite censors' efforts to remove, within hours, any that violate their guidelines.

Such disapproval, even contempt, for the United States is evident in the worker bars just outside a Michelin tire plant in Clermont-Ferrand.

The contempt of such an action was evident, and the legislature refused to accept it.

From 1962, John studied English literature at Nottingham University, where, as a scabrous account in his 1995 prose work Ignoble Sentiments makes evident, he viewed his tutors with – at best – genial contempt.

Unpackage: The word "slags" is spat instead of typed, Dyer's contempt for the terrorists responsible for the disaster evident like saliva in the sand; "freaks my nut out to this day" is Dyer's way of saying that the clumsy, basic implements of the English language are not fine enough tools to fully describe the enormity of the World Trade Center's collapse.