Sentence examples for extreme contempt from inspiring English sources

"You have shown an extreme contempt" for Congress, Mr. Byrd said.

At the time, however, the extreme contempt that many sportswriters and fans poured on him felt a little disingenuous.

Actually calling someone gay is one of the easiest ways to show a person's disregard and extreme contempt.

While their social exclusion was not as complete or as codified as that of blacks, poor rural whites nonetheless became objects of extreme contempt among whites and blacks alike.

As Mr. Qaddafi was driven from the Zintan airport to an undisclosed place for detention, residents who had gathered to see him threw shoes and sandals at the vehicle, a sign of extreme contempt in the Muslim world.

Hobbes expressed extreme contempt for the Aristotelianism of Oxford; Descartes, despite his prudence, scorned the medievalists of the Sorbonne; and Spinoza refused the offer of a professorship of philosophy at Heidelberg with polite aversion.

There is a wildly exaggerated scale of condemnation, in which extremes of contempt confront a country caricatured as the world's worst enemy of peace; such attacks (and the use of Nazi analogies) are beyond evidence and beyond pragmatic political debate or protest.

How can we have real consent of the governed when the government is entrenched with extreme secrecy, surveillance and contempt for privacy?

Wasserman Schultz said she thought the extreme nature of the contempt vote, just a week after a committee recommendation to the House, was obvious.

Hair no longer defines race, or not as dialectically as it used to, with blacks anxious to look whiter at one extreme and Malcolm X's austere contempt for anything but "God-created" hair at the other.

Since then, Somalia has rotted away, a victim of international indifference and its own internecine history.Somalia's more extreme Islamists have shown their contempt for the moderates by stepping up their attacks.