Sentence examples for figure of scorn from inspiring English sources
It has left Davis a figure of scorn and respect".
He treated Yudkin as a figure of scorn, and Yudkin never managed to shake the portrayal.
In two books about the era, by John Brooks and Adam Smith, Tsai was a figure of scorn.
He was an enemy, a figure of scorn, long before he was a focus of admiration and love.
In 1971, Keys published an article attacking Yudkin and describing his evidence against sugar as "flimsy indeed". He treated Yudkin as a figure of scorn, and Yudkin never managed to shake the portrayal.
She had many critics during her life and was even a figure of scorn, Ms. Lukach wrote in her 1983 book, "Hilla Rebay: In Search of the Spirit of Art".
He also became a public figure of feminist scorn after he suggested The Great British Bake Off finalist Ruby Tandoh was too thin to appreciate good food.
It's not the first sign of his own sense of humour – after being a figure of open scorn for some years, the singer has recently gone through a dramatic reputational rehabilitation thanks to his witty ripostes to Twitter critics.
His struggles were impossible to ignore, but his refusal to deflect blame or hide from scrutiny — and his difficulties with concussions — made him more a figure of sympathy than scorn.
(The final performance is tonight).. Patrizia Biccirè, charmed when teased by Vincent Dunoyer as the dancing Cherubino figure, could also soar to emphatic heights of scorn and anger.
The great African American intellectual Du Bois could summon these great figures as equals, but on campuses today students of color still find plenty of "scorn" and "condescension".
