Sentence examples for from contempt from inspiring English sources

Italy provokes something not far from contempt.

Pity is seldom far away from contempt.

His attitude toward Marie-Thérèse runs the gamut of emotions from contempt to... well, to contempt.

But this winter MCC Theater, a respected Off Broadway company, is trying to reclaim "Carrie" from contempt.

Republicans would cut off her answers and speak to her in tones ranging from contempt to condescension.

Today,while it remains that oxymoron, a 'literary prize', Simon Jenkins and his colleagues have rescued it from contempt.

The lack of familiarity was odd, given that many of the guests had been enrolled at Harvard Business School when the subprime-mortgage bubble burst, and had found, in the financial crisis that followed, inspiration to start a "movement" aimed at rescuing their hard-won M.B.A.s from public contempt — from nicknames like Mediocre But Arrogant or Masters of the Business Apocalypse.

Positive responses go from amusement to delight, negative ones from disdain to contempt.

Last week, the Congress voted, largely on party lines, to remove Mr López's immunity from prosecution for contempt of court.

Though told from the British point of view, it shows that viewpoint change from dismissive contempt and naked fear to respect and even admiration.

But far from breeding contempt, in finance it seems that familiarity may breed investment.