Sentence examples for feel contempt for from inspiring English sources

They've been through tragedy, or seen it, and they feel contempt for their trivial jobs.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them".

After the MPs' expenses scandal, people feel contempt for politicians they think will do anything to gain and keep power.

Winnie is a forceful creation, with her burning resentment against those who feel contempt for the way the rest of us live.

They are encouraged to respect his violence and secretly to feel contempt for their mother's gentleness, and yet their fascinated alienation expresses itself in one startling scene involving an incursion into the parental bedroom.

One might dislike an individual and feel contempt for him, but the blanket impulse of hatred, so deep and negative that it starkly reveals the hater's own emotional inadequacy, is a different matter.

"I felt contempt for myself," he wrote later.

Mr Houellebecq told the judges that he had never despised Muslims but felt contempt for Islam.

In the old days, those in foreign intelligence considered themselves an elite and felt "contempt for what they saw as the idiots who ran internal security," says a senior western diplomat.

The first generation of native-born military leaders — Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Ezer Weizman — felt contempt for the European-born political leaders like Eshkol, a gap of generation and culture that also pushed Israel to war.

(He was also partly motivated, like many rebels, by seething class resentment: he says that as the son of a low-level civil servant, he felt "contempt" for middle-class civil rights leaders).